Cristian J. Aviles-Martin, Ph.D.

I turn polymer science into successful product lines.

My work lives where molecular design meets manufacturing — formulating the additives that let electronics and semiconductor makers deposit copper exactly where, and how, they need it. I move fast from hypothesis to validated method to patent-ready result.

A Ph.D. chemist with structure–performance intuition and a full analytical toolkit, I also speak the language of laboratory safety and risk assessment, helping the compliance teams that decide what actually reaches the market — bridging the gap between the bench and the business.

R&D Chemist III

• Design and formulate imidazolium-based levelers and additive chemistries for copper electroplating baths — including demanding through-silicon-via (TSV) fill, where deposition uniformity is non-negotiable.
• Run full-factorial DOE studies (chain length × ring substituent) with response-surface modeling to drive additive performance to target — engineered, not trial-and-error.
• Decode additive structure–performance relationships with GPC, NMR, FTIR, and electrochemistry (CV, EIS, CVS), turning mechanism into formulation strategy.
• Author provisional patent documentation, converting bench discoveries into defensible IP.

Earlier Experience

• Built FTIR and adhesion-testing methods to characterize antibacterial polymer coatings on surgical-implant substrates, and stood up Debogy Molecular's first EHS compliance framework — chemical-waste protocols and FDA-adjacent regulatory documentation from scratch.
• Developed and validated UV-Vis spectroscopic methods to quantitatively track photochemical reaction progress at Clean Crop Technologies, including linearity, range, and robustness assessments.

Ph.D., Chemistry

Elucidating Polymerization Mechanisms Inside Vesicle-Templated Reaction Systems and Discussions on Student-Led Safety Initiatives

B.S., Chemistry