Andreas Mershin is a physicist who led the MIT Label Free Research Group at the Center for Bits and Atoms, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, from 2004 to 2023.
Under an NSF grant he conducted cross-disciplinary research that experimented with surface plasmon resonance, dielectric spectroscopy and molecular neurobiology.
Mershin researches bio- and nano- materials at the Center for Bits and Atoms at MIT, where he develops bioelectronic photovoltaic and machine olfaction applications using membrane proteins integrated onto semiconductors.
Mershin has patented in the field of bioenergy harvesters,[3] he is also a co-founder of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences' international annual "Molecular Frontiers Inquiry Prize"[4] for the best scientific question posed by children.
[5] He is also the co-founder and Chief Science Officer of RealNose.ai (http://www.RealNose.ai), a company developing advanced machine olfaction technologies inspired by the olfactory capabilities of trained dogs.