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Cyrus Mody
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Personal Description
Cyrus Mody has an A.B. in mechanical and materials engineering from Harvard University and a Ph.D. in Science and Technology Studies from Cornell University. He is currently the program manager for nanotechnology and innovation studies at the Center for Contemporary History and Policy, part of the Chemical Heritage Foundation.
Research Interests
His research focuses on the formation of communities of scientists and engineers. He is particularly interested in communities that specialize in nanoscale phenomena and that have formed inter-communal linkages to form the field of nanotechnology. Members of these communities orient to each other through a common technique or instrument (e.g. the atomic force microscope), a common material (e.g. carbon nanotubes), a common end-goal (e.g. replacing silicon transistors with organic molecule-based electronics), a common institution (e.g. the Gordon Conference on the Physics and Chemistry of Microfabrication), or a common discipline (e.g. surface science). Since these communities usually contain members from government, industry, and academia, they are a prime site for studying how state and commercial objectives are bound together with modern research.
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