Werner Kuhr

Director, Office of Entrepreneurship and Innovation at Colorado School of Mines
Summary
Werner G. Kuhr is the Director of the McNeil Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the Colorado School of Mines in Golden, CO, where he focuses on integrating entrepreneurship into educational programs, sponsored research, and technology commercialization activities.
With a background in chemistry, Werner previously held key roles such as the Technology Commercialization Director and founding Director of the Stevens Venture Center at Stevens Institute of Technology.
Werner Kuhr has a rich history in the industry, having been the Vice President of Research at ZettaCore, Inc., a company he founded and sold in the semiconductor and printed circuit board sector. The company was based on his research during his tenure as a Professor of Chemistry at the University of California, Riverside.
During his time at UC Riverside, Werner supervised a productive research program, guiding 25 Ph.D. and MS students to graduation, publishing around 100 papers with an impressive H-index of 60, and securing over $8 million in extramural funding.
In addition to his academic and corporate roles, Werner Kuhr has been instrumental in the formation of five start-up technology companies, particularly focusing on translation research in areas such as protein diagnostics and genomics.
His specialties include intellectual property, technology commercialization, start-ups, biomedical devices, semiconductor materials, program management, entrepreneurship, neuroscience, and electrochemistry.
Werner Kuhr's educational background includes a Ph.D. in Chemistry from Indiana University Bloomington, a Postdoc in Chemistry from Iowa State University, and both a B.S. and M.S. in Chemistry from Stevens Institute of Technology.
Throughout his career, Werner has been affiliated with various notable organizations, including the McNeil Center of Entrepreneurship and Innovation, AdvisoryCloud, Stevens Venture Center, Stevens Institute of Technology, University of Colorado Denver, eSionic Corp., ZettaCore, Inc., University of California, Riverside, Ames Lab at Iowa State University, and the University of Groningen.