Dr Lawson received his B.S. in Chemical Engineering at Tennessee Technological University in 2005. He received a Ph.D. in Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering in 2011 at the Georgia Institute of Technology where he also completed a Postdoctoral Fellowship. Since 2015, he has been at Milliken & Company where he is a Research Engineer working in the area of chemical technologies. He is an author of over 22 publications, 41 conference proceedings, and a U.S. Patent in the area of patterning materials including photoresist and block copolymer design, synthesis, and characterization along with simulation of resist processing and BCP self-assembly.