Daniel came to MSU in 2016, following 16 years of technology development experience in Silicon Valley. His first 8 years there were in the semiconductor capital equipment industry, developing processes and equipment to deposit ultrathin conformal layers of metal on silicon wafers, a critical step in the manufacture of cutting edge electronics.

Most recently, he was on the executive staff at MiaSolé, a manufacturer of flexible and lightweight thin film solar panels. There he initiated and managed several technical functions, including the intellectual property program. Daniel has been granted more than 20 US patents, and has BS, MS, and PhD degrees in Physics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.