Michael Ramsey, emeritus from UNC, held the Minnie N. Goldby Distinguished Professor of Chemistry Chair at the UNC - Chapel Hill. He was also on the faculty of the Departments of Biomedical Engineering and Applied Physical Sciences. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors, the Optical Society of America, the American Chemical Society, and the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering. Moreover, Dr. Ramsey is the science founder of two public companies, Caliper Technologies (NASDAQ:CALP), renamed Caliper Life Sciences and acquired by PerkinElmer in 2011 and 908 Devices Inc. (NASDAQ:MASS), a company developing revolutionary handheld and desktop tools for acquiring chemical and biochemical information.He is also the science founder of two additional venture financed life sciences tools companies, Genturi Inc. and Codetta Bio Inc., and a founding partner of Move Analytical.  Prof. Ramsey has published over 300 peer-reviewed papers (H-index = 87, i10 index = 214) and presented nearly 600 invited, plenary, or named lectures.  In addition, he has over 210 issued and multiple pending patents.