Microbes and Beneficial Microbes

Dr Chris D. Geddes, Ph.D., FRSC, Professor, has extensive experience in fl uorescence spectroscopy, particularly in fl uorescence sensing and metal-fl uorophore

interactions, publishing over 275 peer-reviewed papers (h-index: 45), and 30 books. Dr Geddes is internationally known in fl uorescence and plasmonics and

his laboratory is widely attributed to the development of the Metal-Enhanced Fluorescence (MEF) and related plasmon-fl uorescence technologies, securing in

excess of $25 million in recent years to pursue his research aspirations. He is the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Fluorescence and founding editor-in-chief of the

Who’s Who in Fluorescence, Annual Reviews in Fluorescence and the Annual Reviews in Plasmonics volumes. In addition, due to the labs’ pioneering efforts in

the fi elds of metallic nanoparticle-fl uorophore interactions, Dr Geddes launched a Springer Journal "Plasmonics" in 2005, which is a leading journal in the fi eld

today. Dr Geddes is Director of the Institute of Fluorescence, a department within UMBC (University of Maryland Baltimore County), which focuses on the nanobio-

technological applications of fl uorescence. Dr Geddes has been a permanent member of the NIH’s EBIT R01 study section (2007-2012) and chaired the NIH’s

Analytical and BioAnalytical SBIR study section from ~ 2004-2009. Dr Geddes is a fellow of both the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC) and the Institute of Physics.

Dr Geddes holds > 100 patents in the fi elds of fl uorescence and plasmonics and his roles and interactions with industry have created enterprise value in excess

of $100 Million dollars.