Licensing Contact Information

Dan Hussey

Senior Technology Licensing Specialist

Daniel Hussey serves as a Technology Licensing Specialist in the Office of Technology Commercialization at The University of Texas at Austin. In this role, Mr. Hussey specializes in life science and biomedical technologies, where he evaluates commercial opportunities for inventions, supports the patent process, markets technologies to prospective licensees, negotiates intellectual property licenses, and provides support for faculty members who wish to form startups.

Mr. Hussey has over six years of life science research experience as well as prior technology transfer and licensing experience at the University of Pennsylvania. He holds an M.S. in Biotechnology from the University of Pennsylvania and a B.S. in Biomedical Engineering from Drexel University.

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Kristin Falkenstein

Technology Licensing Specialist

Kristin Falkenstein, Ph.D., is a Licensing Specialist in the Office of Technology Commercialization at The University of Texas at Austin. In this role, Kristin leverages a passion for science and her extensive technical background to identify, protect, and commercialize valuable technologies developed by UT Austin researchers.

Dr. Falkenstein joined the OTC team in 2017 and currently manages a portfolio of more than 100 technologies spanning therapeutics, diagnostics, imaging platforms, agriculture tools, and medical devices. Kristin has successfully negotiated over 20 revenue generating deals that have accelerated commercial development of UT Austin technologies. Prior to transitioning into a technology transfer role, Kristin earned a Ph.D. in Cell and Molecular Biology from UT Austin and continued her academic training as a Postdoctoral Fellow in Cancer and Developmental Biology. Kristin enjoys teaching and mentoring, and has served as a guest lecturer for both undergraduate and graduate level courses in entrepreneurship and intellectual property.

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Chithra Krishnamurthy

Technology Licensing Specialist

Chithra Krishnamurthy, Ph.D., serves as a Technology Licensing Specialist in the Office of Technology Commercialization at The University of Texas at Austin. In this role, she specializes in life science technologies, such as biomedical devices, therapeutics, and research tools. Her responsibilities include supporting the faculty in the patent process and strategy, evaluating commercial opportunities for university intellectual property, marketing technologies to potential licensees, negotiating intellectual property licenses, and providing support for faculty members who wish to form startups.

Prior to joining the UT Austin OTC, she was postdoctoral researcher at the University of California at San Francisco. She holds a Ph.D. in Chemistry from the California Institute of Technology and a B.S. in Chemistry from the University of California at Berkeley.

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Ali Goudarzi

Technology Analyst

Ali Goudarzi, Ph.D., serves as a Technology Analyst in the Office of Technology Commercialization at The University of Texas at Austin. In this role, Mr. Goudarzi specializes in physical science, oil & gas, energy, and other engineering technologies, where he evaluates commercial opportunities for inventions, supports the patent process, markets technologies to prospective licensees, negotiates intellectual property licenses, and provides support for faculty members who wish to advance technologies.

Mr. Goudarzi holds an M.S. in Petroleum Engineering and a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering both from The University of Texas at Austin.

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Preeti Mehta

Technology Analyst

Preeti Mehta, Ph.D., serves as a Technology Analyst in the Office of Technology Commercialization at The University of Texas at Austin. In this role, Ms. Mehta works with technologies in the oil and gas space where she evaluates commercial opportunities for university inventions, oversees patent prosecution using outside counsel, market tech, negotiates intellectual property licenses.

Preeti Mehta has a Ph.D. in Biochemistry with over 18 years of research experience. She has multiple research publications and is a registered USPTO patent agent. Prior to joining the OTC, she was a research associate at the Department of Neuroscience at The University of Texas of Austin.

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Milda Vilkaityte Saenz

Technology Licensing Specialist

Ms. Milda Saenz serves as Technology Licensing Specialist for Physical Sciences in the Office of Technology Commercialization at the University of Texas at Austin (OTC). In this role, Ms. Saenz conducts market research to identify companies that may have a need for advanced technologies disclosed to the OTC. Her responsibilities also include the commercial assessment of the University’s inventions and the identification of market opportunities.

Ms. Saenz brings more than ten years of global technology transfer and business management experience to the Physical Sciences Licensing team. Prior to joining OTC, Ms. Saenz served as Intellectual Property Manager for Insight Center for Data Analytics, a big data research center comprised of four Irish universities. Previously, she served as a business analyst at Dell European Headquarters in Dublin, Ireland; overlooking business operations in the EMEA region, Asia, and the United States. Saenz holds two Masters Degrees in Law (LL.M) with the focus on Intellectual Property and Technology Law.

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Chris Wohlgamuth

Senior Technology Licensing Specialist

Chris Wohlgamuth, Ph.D., serves as a Senior Technology Licensing Specialist in the Office of Technology Commercialization. In this role, Dr. Wohlgamuth, specializes in physical sciences where he evaluates commercial opportunities for intellectual property, supports the patent process and strategy, markets technologies to prospective licensees, negotiates intellectual property licenses, and provides support to the inventors.

Prior to joining The University of Texas at Austin, Dr. Wohlgamuth worked as a Licensing Analyst and then Technology Licensing Manager at The Ohio State University from 2014-2019, managing intellectual property matters in the College of Natural Sciences and the College of Engineering. He earned his Bachelor’s degree in Physics from The University of Texas at Austin, followed by his M.S. and Ph.D. in Physics from The University of Texas at Dallas.

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Robert D. Villwock

Senior Technology Licensing Specialist

Robert D. Villwock, Ph.D., serves as Senior Technology Licensing Specialist for the Office of Technology Commercialization at The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin). In this role, Dr. Villwock is responsible for working with faculty members to manage their intellectual property portfolios by evaluating the commercial potential of inventions, marketing technologies to prospective licensees, negotiating IP licenses, and enabling startup formation.

Dr. Villwock joined OTC in 2016 as Program Director – Strategic Researcher Liaison, where he focused on the facilitation of transfer of research into intellectual property. Previously, he served as  Associate Director of the Center for Electrochemistry at UT Austin where he developed research funding from government, industry, and private sources, and facilitated researchers in the commercialization process. Prior to that, he was principal in his own consultancy specializing in chemical engineering, process development, and intellectual property management. He has held senior-level research positions in startups Golden Bear Ceramics and Mobius Technologies and has conducted product and process development for several different groups within Dow Chemical. Dr. Villwock is an inventor on nine U.S. Patents. He holds a B.S. in polymer science and engineering from Case Western Reserve University and a Ph.D. in chemical engineering from the University of California at Berkeley.

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