Our Team
John (J) Provine, PhD
Founder & Chief Executive Officer
Aligned Carbon was co-founded by CEO, John (J) Provine, PhD. Dr. Provine has over 20 years of experience in nanofabrication beginning with his PhD studies at Cornell University and continuing through the decade-plus he spent as a senior research scientist at Stanford University. Dr. Provine has consulted widely with established companies (eg, Veeco, Bosch) and early stage start-ups (eg, Quantumscape, Spark Thermionics).
Yonas Yemane, PhD
Chief Science Officer
Dr. Yemane has expertise in nanofabrication and thin film deposition techniques, particularly in atomic layer deposition (ALD). His graduate research focused on the development and use of the world’s first combined in situ scanning probe microscopy and ALD tool. Dr. Yemane received his PhD in Applied Physics and MS in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University and his BA from Harvard University.
Matti Thurston
Director of Product & Operations
Mr. Thurston has expertise in translating material-level enhancements to mass production. His graduate research focused on leveraging metasurface photonics in an optically addressable quantuym computer. Mr. Thurston prior worked at Apple as an Engineering Program Manager in charge of wearables batteries. He holds a MS in Materials Science from Stanford University and a BS from Cornell University.