Leron Perez
Toward cheaper, more programmable manufacturing
I work on solving the bottlenecks between science and scalable manufacturing. Past work on bioprocesses, instrumentation, high-throughput characterization, separations, and programmable materials.
Bioreactor gas-control / oxygen-inference system
A hardware/software system attached to bioreactors to characterize mass transport and infer dynamic oxygen consumption, making scale-down reactors more informative.
Reverse-engineered spectrometer for closed-loop polymer synthesis
An older spectrometer turned into a programmable measurement/control component for a continuous polyurethane reactor.
High-throughput microalgae measurement platform
An automated measurement and computer-vision workflow for quantifying photosynthetic performance at scale.
Microbial adaptation and physiology
Theory and data work on how microbes allocate resources and respond to fluctuating environments.
What evidence should a new physical process carry before anyone believes it can scale?
Which biological measurements are actually predictive across reactor scales?
How cheap can closed-loop measurement become before it changes what experiments people attempt?
What would make programmable materials feel more like an engineering substrate than a lab curiosity?
Limits to Robustness
Robustness without context is meaningless. Nonetheless, many of the amenities and privileges we enjoy as participants in modern societies are built upon the ...
A Vignette of Scientific Other
Our experienced reality tends to color outside of the lines set by science. As soon as you step outside, shoes crunching on gravel, you are surrounded by the...
Side doors
Tinkering, adventures, and reading.
Tinkering
Small builds, repairs, rigs, fixtures, and workshop notes.
Adventures
Past escapades outdoors.
Bookshelf
Books I loved.
About
My background, current direction, and contact links.