Jason Shear

Jason Shear earned a B.S. in chemistry from the University of Texas at Austin in 1989 and a Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1994 under Richard N. Zare. Following an NSF postdoctoral fellowship at Cornell University, he returned to Austin in 1996 to establish his independent research program. Shear is recognized as a pioneer in two-photon photolithography and has developed innovative approaches in biomaterials, bioengineering and nanoscale analysis. His honors include a Beckman Young Investigator Award, an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship and the American Chemical Society Arthur F. Findeis Award in Analytical Chemistry.

The Shear lab uses multiphoton excitation (MPE) to perform site-specific photochemistry such as fabrication of 3D materials.