Peter S. Fiske, Ph.D., President and CEO of PAX Mixer,
Inc.
Peter S. Fiske is President and CEO of PAX Mixer, Inc., a new company created to commercialize high-efficiency mixing technologies developed by parent company, PAX Scientific. Both companies use “biomimicry” – the application of methods and systems found in nature to the study and design of engineering systems and modern technology. Prior to joining PAX Mixer, Inc., Fiske was co-founder and VP for Business Development and Sales of RAPT Industries, in Fremont, CA. RAPT Industries developed a new process for rapidly shaping and polishing optical and semiconductor materials and is using this process to manufacture a new class of lightweight optical mirrors out of silicon carbide. Fiske identified the technology while at LLNL and, as a second-year evening M.B.A. student, developed the business plan for RAPT which won first place in
the third annual U.C. Berkeley Business Plan Competition in 2001. Prior to starting RAPT, Fiske led a research team in condensed matter physics at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory where his group developed new experimental diagnostic techniques for high-speed non-steady state phenomena and also utilized 2- and 3D hydrodynamic models to simulate shock phenomena in solids and fluids. He is the author of 20 technical articles, most in international peer-reviewed journals including SCIENCE.
In 1996, Fiske was selected as a White House Fellow and served one
year in the Pentagon as Special Assistant to the Under Secretary
for Acquisition and Technology (Dr. Paul Kaminski). Fiske was charged
with assisting the Department of Defense with landmark reform in
the area of personnel policy – focusing on the 110,000-person science
and engineering workforce. Fiske worked with a inter-services team
of experienced managers and personnel policy consultants to craft
legislation to allow for greater flexibility in hiring, promotion
and retention of DOD employees. This pilot effort in 1997 has led
to major reforms of the government personnel system across many agencies.
Fiske also created a novel fellowship program to bring talented young scientists and engineers to Washington. For this work he was awarded the Defense Outstanding Achievement Award in 1997.
Dr. Fiske is also a nationally-recognized author and lecturer on
the subject of leadership and career development for young scientists
and engineers. He is the author of To Boldly Go: A Practical Career
Guide for Scientists (AGU Press, 1996). A new edition, Put Your Science
to Work was published in December of 2000. From 1996 to 2000 he wrote
the career advice column Tooling Up, and presently writes the monthly
on-line column Opportunities for the American Association for the
Advancement of Science.
A native of Bethesda, Maryland, Fiske received his A.B. (Magna Cum
Laude) in Geological and Geophysical Sciences from Princeton University
in 1988. He was subsequently awarded a National Science Foundation
Graduate Fellowship and received his Ph.D. in Geological and Environmental
Sciences from Stanford University in 1993. He received his MBA from
U.C. Berkeley’s Haas School of Business in the Spring of 2002
The NIH Career Symposium supported by:
Office of Intramural Training and Education (OITE)
NIH/Foundation for Advanced Education in the Sciences (FAES)
Fellows Committee (FELCOM)
Graduate Student Counsel (GSC)
National Institutes of Health
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
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