Dr. Rothschild has been an innovator in biotechnology for the past 35 years, making important contributions to the fields of membrane protein biophysics, vibrational spectroscopy, nanotechnology, mass spectrometric imaging and molecular diagnostics.
He holds 56 issued U.S. patents and is the author of over 150 publications in major scientific journals. Distinctions include General Motors Scholar, Fellow of the Sloan Foundation, Fellow of National Research Council, Established Investigator of the American Heart Association, Fellow of the American Physical Society and Fellow of the Biophysical Society. He was recently elected to the National Academy of Inventors (NAI) which honors contributions from inventors, who have made a tangible impact on quality of life, economic development, and welfare of society.
Dr. Rothschild is an Emeritus Professor of Physics at Boston University, where he is Director of the Molecular Biophysics Laboratory. He also holds faculty appointments at the BU School of Medicine, Photonics Center, which he helped co-found, Nanotechnology Innovation Center and Center for Bioinformatics at Boston University.
Dr. Rothschild received his Ph.D. in Physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and was a Post-doctoral Fellow in the Harvard-MIT Program in Health Sciences and Technology.