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Jeff
Marque

Jeff Marque had an early interest in education and teaching.

San Mateo, California

After graduating from the University of California, Berkeley, in the spring of 1971, Jeff Marque pursued his interests in science and education. While he was enrolled at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music in 1975, he met his future wife, Miyako. They were married in 1982, while Jeff Marque studied in the physics doctoral program of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Jeff Marque completed his physics PhD at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and applied for a grant from the National Science Foundation’s U.S.-Japan Cooperative Science Program. He was awarded the grant and, in February 1984, the couple moved to Miyako’s native country of Japan. Once in Japan, Jeff Marque began his research in the biophysics lab at Rikagaku Kenkyusho (RIKEN) in Wako-shi, a suburb of Tokyo. His work at RIKEN utilized fluorescence anisotropy decay.

During that time, he also collaborated with Dr. Kenji Kubota at Ochanomizu University in Tokyo. Drs. Kubota and Marque studied a mutant form of bacteriorhodopsin using dynamic light scattering. The work of Jeff Marque and his Japanese colleagues was published in Biochemistry and Biophysical Journal. While living in Japan, Miyako and Jeff Marque had their first child. Their daughter was born at the home of a midwife in Tokyo a month before they returned to the United States. Upon arrival, the couple moved to Ithaca, New York, where Jeff Marque pursued further postdoctoral work at Cornell University. He served for 20 years as a physicist for Beckman Instruments (later Beckman Coulter) before taking a position as Lead Simulation Engineer with Northrop Grumman Marine Systems in 2008.


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  		•  Northrop Grumman Marine Systems 2008 - Sunnyvale, California
    Lead Simulation Engineer
    Launched a knowledge continuity management initiative by organizing and managing a site-wide users’ group concerning computational fluid dynamics. Was also project manager for an effort in which physics-based engineering simulation output was displayed in a high-fidelity virtual reality visualization, using gaming software technologies.
  		• Beckman Coulter Corporation 1988 - 2008 - Palo Alto, California
    Senior Staff Physicist
    In the Fall of 1988, was offered the position of Engineering Staff Physicist at Smithkline Beckman’s Spinco Division in Palo Alto, California, the site of a major biomedical centrifuge design and manufacturing facility. My first work there concerned the use of sedimentation-diffusion simulations in the control of rotor speed in ultracentrifuges. Two of my algorithms for rotor speed control were patented in the US. The work was also published in Biophysical Chemistry and the proceedings of a Bioprocess Engineering Symposium sponsored by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. Starting in about 1991, the emphasis of my work at Beckman shifted to the structural dynamics of centrifuges. Started using finite element analysis (FEA) to determine the resonances of centrifuge assemblies, as well as their responses to rotor imbalance forces. Also started doing experiments such as frequency response function measurements. Used these computational and experimental techniques to solve many dynamical problems with centrifuge designs.