Mark Somoza's Biography

Mark Somoza, Professor, University of Vienna

Born in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1966. Received a Bachelor’s degree in Physics from the University of Chicago and a Masters degree in Physics from the University of Michigan. Received a Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry from the University of South Carolina for ultrafast spectroscopy studies of DNA and other polymers. Was a posdoc in high resolution spectroscopy, low temperature physics and biophysics in the Physics Department of the Technical University of Munich. After that was a posdoc in the Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, working in the area of biotechnology, specifically the synthesis of nucleic acid microarrays. Since 2009 has worked in the Faculty of Chemistry at the University of Vienna.