Jacob Swett

Jacob Swett is an American research scientist.

Swett attended Missouri State University from 2007-2012, earning his Bachelors of Science in Applied Mathematics and Physics and a Bachelor of Arts in German. In 2008, he studied yellow supergiant variable stars during as an intern at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).

Swett worked as a research scientist in Lockheed Martin's space division from 2008-2019.

He then attended the University of Oxford from 2016-2020 for his PhD in philosophy.¹⁾ The areas he focused on for his research were:

• Novel biosensors based on nanotechnology and quantum sensing
• New technologies for biosurveillance and diagnostics
• Quantum transport in nanostructures
• Transverse solid-state nanopore sequencing

In 2019, Swett participated in the Emerging Leaders in Biosecurity Fellowship at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security.

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