Matthew McDermott

Founder, Newfound Materials | Activate Fellow | Materials PhD

Role: Founder & CEO at Newfound Materials
Location: Houston, TX, US
LinkedIn followers: 500 followers

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Experience

Founder & CEO
Newfound Materials
Aug 2024 — Present · Houston, TX, US
Newfound Materials is the computational engine for materials R&D. We unlock new synthesis pathways to the world’s most critical materials.

Education

The University of Texas at Austin
Bachelor of Science (B.S.)
2014 — 2018
University of California, Berkeley
Master of Science - MS
2018 — 2020
University of California, Berkeley
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD
2018 — 2023

Skills

Final Cut Pro
Microsoft Excel
C
Labview
Music Production
Html
Solidworks
Finale
Microsoft Office
Vex Robotics
Objective-C
Python
Bootstrap
Photoshop
Music Theory
Drums
C++
Css
Video Editing
Digital Photography
Matlab
Ios
Trombone
Xcode
Public Speaking
Robotc
Music
Microsoft Word
Team Leadership

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Current company

Newfound Materials

Chemical Manufacturing · 2 employees · Founded 2024

Founded in 2024, Newfound’s mission is to empower scientists to discover the world’s most needed materials not by accident, but by design. Today, it takes approximately 10 years and upwards of $10-100M to successfully synthesize a new material with desired properties in the lab and bring it to market. At the heart of this problem is synthesis: the conventional human-guided, trial-and-error nature of lab experiments often results in synthesis recipes being developed in an iterative fashion guided solely by chemical principles and scientific intuition. For this reason, many predicted materials that could be transformative for globally critical applications such as energy storage/generation and catalysis never get successfully made in the lab. Furthermore, those that do get synthesized on the lab scale often face challenges during scale-up for production. To address this problem, we’ve developed a predictive platform with the following modules: 1. AI-driven high-throughput screening for rapid material candidate discovery 2. Inorganic retrosynthesis engine 3. Virtual reactor lab simulations to model real-world synthesis conditions 4. Adaptive synthesis optimization for continuous improvement and scale-up

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Experience

Founder & CEO

Education

The University of Texas at Austin

University of California, Berkeley

University of California, Berkeley

Skills

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