Adam Heller
Research Professor
Chemical Engineering
Phone: (512) 471-8874
Email: heller@che.utexas.edu
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Dr. Heller joined The University of Texas at Austin faculty in 1988. He earned his Ph.D. in chemistry from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and the recipient of multiple honorary titles, degrees, awards and medals. In 2008 he received the American Chemical Society’s Creative Invention Award and a Honorary Doctorate from the City University of New York.
Heller co-founded TheraSense acquired in 2004 by Abbott Laboratories, manufacturer of the FreeStyle micro-coulometric painless glucose monitor and the FreeStyle Navigator continuous amperometric glucose monitor. Earlier he contributed to the design of photocatalysts for air cleaning, efficient photo-electrochemical solar cells, inorganic lithium batteries and neodymium liquid lasers.
Research interests:
- Electrochemical glucose monitoring for diabetes management
- Bioelectrochemistry
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