Bill
Flounders was born in Deleware County, PA. He received the B.S. degree in
Chemical Engineering from The Johns Hopkins University in 1985 and the Ph.D. in
Chemical Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley in 1992. Bill
completed a majority of his graduate research in the U.C. Berkeley
Microfabrication Laboratory. His dissertation focused upon fabrication of
exposed gate field effect transistors for sensor applications and in-situ
monitoring of plasma induced radiation damage to gate insulators.
Bill completed post-doctoral research in immunology at
the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Western Regional Research Center in Albany,
CA. His research involved immobilization, stabilization and patterning of
proteins for biosensor development. From 1996 to 2001, Bill was a Senior Member
of Technical Staff at Sandia National Laboratories in Livermore, CA and worked
in the Chemical and Radiation Detection Laboratory. His research was supported
by the DOE Office of Nonproliferation Research and Engineering (NN20) and
focused upon sensors for detection of chemical and biological warfare agents.
Bill was responsible for integration of multiple biological receptors with a
single microelectronic transduction platform and adaptation of microelectronic
fabrication tools to biochemical processing to enable wafer scale biosensor
fabrication.
Bill lives in
Berkeley with his two children. He is active in the Berkeley
Public Schools Excellence Project (BSEP) and enjoys teaching and sailing at The
Presidio Yacht Club.