Netzahualcoyotl Arroyo Curras
Assistant Professor, University of California Santa Barbara
Netzahualcóyotl Arroyo Currás (Netz Arroyo) is an assistant professor in the Department of Pharmacology and Molecular Sciences at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He was born in the city of Puebla, Mexico where he completed his compulsory education in 2004. He then moved to Monterrey to attend college at Tec de Monterrey, where he obtained his B.S. in Chemistry in 2009. Upon graduating he moved to Austin, TX to pursue a Ph.D. degree in Analytical Chemistry from the University of Texas at Austin, where he worked with Allen J. Bard in electrochemical energy storage and studies of electrocatalysis employing scanning electrochemical microscopy. He graduated in 2015 and moved to Santa Barbara, CA to complete his postdoctoral training with Kevin W. Plaxco at the University of California Santa Barbara, where he developed electrochemical biosensing platforms supporting the real-time measurement of specific molecules in the body.