Fernando Gómez-Baquero is the director of Runway and Spinouts at the Jacobs Technion–Cornell Institute at Cornell Tech, where he helps postdoctoral entrepreneurs build companies based on digital technologies across diverse fields, such as digital health, telecommunications, education, cybersecurity, and the Internet of Things (IoT).
Gómez-Baquero holds a Ph.D. in nanoscale science and engineering from the College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering at the University at Albany, SUNY. His research has focused on advanced nanomaterials for energy storage applications, on the economic impact of pervasive nanotechnologies, and on tech entrepreneurship.
In addition, Gómez-Baquero has more than 25 years of experience in the nanotechnology industry, starting with the production and characterization of carbon nanotubes and the development of polymer-nanotube composite materials. Gómez-Baquero is recognized as a leader in the fabrication of nanoengineered electrodes for lithium-ion batteries, using semiconductor processes and nanotechnology to enhance their performance. He has several publications in nanomaterials research and on the economic impact of nanotechnologies, and a number of patent applications in diverse nanomaterials.
Gómez-Baquero also serves as the director of translation for the NSF Energy Storage Engine in Upstate New York, a federally funded effort to increase US competitiveness in the energy storage industry by promoting battery technologies made in America. He is also the lead tech scout for the NSF’s iCorps Program Interior Northeast Hub, where he helps startup companies find opportunities for non-dilutive funding through federal government programs.
