Experimental Engineering LLC

Meet the Founder

Abraham Saldivar, PhD.

I founded Experimental Engineering as a platform to help clients achieve a deeper level of understanding of their systems and processes - the kind of understanding from which solutions naturally emerge. I know from experience how powerful an efficient R&D process can be. My mission is to bring the scientific method to industrial settings without undue time or cost burdens.

Empirical understanding of Nature is the unifying core of my career. From exploring the near-intractable movement of powder to designing crystal structures at the atomic scale, I am at home "down in the weeds". The intricacies of physical systems never cease to amaze, and of course, to provide great challenges for us to solve.

Advisors

Without counsel purposes are disappointed, but in the multitude of counselors they are established.

Great ideas and solutions are never born in isolation. Experimental Engineering is grateful to count with the support of the following highly accomplished experts:

Without counsel purposes are disappointed, but in the multitude of counselors they are established.

Great ideas and solutions are never born in isolation. Experimental Engineering is grateful to count with the support of the following highly accomplished experts:

Benny Buller

Benny Buller is a physicist, investor, and technology entrepreneur that has expanded the frontier of cutting edge electronics and manufacturing technologies across many industries such as solar, semiconductor, and aerospace. Throughout his career, Benny has built and led large, innovative engineering and product organizations, most recently as founder and CEO of Velo3D, which he took public in 2021, and brought to $80M annual revenue, now serving on its board. Benny has over 100 published patents.

Prof. Christopher Chidsey

Born in 1957, Christopher Chidsey studied chemistry at Dartmouth College (A.B. 1978) and physical chemistry at Stanford University (Ph.D. 1983). After postdoctoral work in electrochemistry with Royce Murray at the University of North Carolina, he joined the technical staff at AT&T Bell Laboratories, where he probed long-distance electron transfer across interfaces and contributed to developments in scanning tunneling microscopy, nonlinear optical materials and optical materials processing. He joined the Stanford Department of Chemistry as Associate Professor in 1992, and in 2009 was also appointed Senior Fellow at the Precourt Institute for Energy. He has received the Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award and Bing and Hertz Foundation fellowships, and was elected a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. While at Stanford, the Chidsey Lab used surface chemistry and electrochemistry to control and investigate a number of important interfacial phenomena with applications in sustainable battery technology, fuel chemistry, and biochemical analysis.

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