Brian Dodson is President of his own Research Consultancy, Dodson Consultants. After earning his PhD in physics, Brian joined the fundamental research group at Sandia National Laboratories. His research included such diverse topics as semiconductor materials, surface physics, explosives chemistry, MEMS, nanomaterials, metamaterials, quantum computing, and engineering failure analysis, resulting in 60 papers which have attracted over 5000 references. He also worked in Sandia's IP group, through which Brian became experienced and highly successful at writing and prosecuting patents in a wide range of technologies. He was known as the "go-to" guy for unusual inventions. Other activities included serving as Director for NSF's Materials Theory program, working on the NASA team analyzing the Columbia Shuttle accident, and founding a start-up company in pharmaceutical delivery. In his spare time, Brian is an opera tenor, a professional videographer, a ham radio operator, and enjoys read