Douglas B. Weibel is an Assistant Professor of Biochemistry at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Douglas Weibel received his Bachelor of Science in Chemistry from the University of Utah and both his Master of Science and Doctor of Philosophy in Chemistry from Cornell University. Douglas Weibel completed his post-doctoral fellowship in Chemistry at Harvard University.

Douglas Weibel has garnered extensive experience working as a research scientist and teacher in a variety of rigorous settings. Upon completing his undergraduate education, Douglas Weibel went to research abroad as a Fulbright Fellow working under Professor Yoshinori Yamamoto at Tohoku University in Sendai, Japan. Between academic sessions at Cornell University, Douglas Weibel worked as a visiting scientist with Professor Wilhelm Boland at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology in Jena, Germany, and as a visiting scientist at Orchid Cellmark Inc. in Princeton, New Jersey. While a graduate student at Cornell University, Douglas Weibel worked closely with Professor Jerrold Meinwald in the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology.

In 2002, upon receiving his doctorate in chemistry, Douglas Weibel was awarded a National Institutes of Health Postdoctoral Fellowship to study at Harvard University with Professor George M. Whitesides.

Douglas Weibel has been selected as an Assistant Professor for both the Department of Biochemistry and Biomedical Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Douglas Weibel is the recipient of countless academic honors and awards, including the Searle Scholar Award from the Kinship Foundation, the ICAAC Young Investigator Award from the American Society for Microbiology, and the Sloan Research Fellow from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.

Douglas Weibel is the author of countless publications and has been asked to attend numerous institutional seminars all over the world, including at the Leibniz Institute of Polymer Research in Dresden, Germany, and the Tokyo Institute of Technology. Douglas Weibel has been invited to present several upcoming research seminars, including at Stanford University and the Gordon Conference on Biointerface Science in Switzerland.