Since 2018
Patent attorney candidate at df-mp
Danielle Schiffels
Patent Attorney Candidate
Ph.D. B.Sc.
Dr. Danielle Schiffels joined df-mp in 2018 as a candidate, training in European and German patent law. She supports our team in patent application proceedings, opposition proceedings and patent litigation. Her interdisciplinary background in chemistry, biology and applied mathematics strengthens our firm’s broad technical expertise.
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danielle.schiffels@df-mp.com
Dr. Danielle Schiffels joined df-mp in 2018 as a candidate, training in European and German patent law. She supports our team in patent application proceedings, opposition proceedings and patent litigation. Her interdisciplinary background in chemistry, biology and applied mathematics strengthens our firm’s broad technical expertise.
practice areas.
curriculum vitae.
2015-2017
NRC Postdoctoral Fellow at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in Gaithersburg, Maryland
2014-2015
Research Scientist at Scanogen, a start-up company developing novel diagnostic tools in Baltimore, Maryland
2013
Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry from the University of California Santa Barbara Dissertation: “Correlating Optical and Physical Properties of Few-Atom, Fluorescent Silver Clusters”
2008
Bachelor degrees in Chemistry, Biology and Applied Mathematics from the University of Rhode Island (Summa Cum Laude)
publications.
D.E. Schultz, S.M. Copp, N. Markešević, K. Gardner, S.S.R. Oemrawsingh, D. Bouwmeester and E.G. Gwinn, “Dual-Color Nanoscale Assemblies of Structurally Stable, Few-Atom Silver Clusters, as Reported by Fluorescence Resonance Energy Transfer.” ACS Nano, 2013, 7, 9798.
D. Schultz, K. Gardner, S. Oemrawsingh, N. Markešević, K. Olsson, M. Debord, D. Bouwmeester and E.G. Gwinn, “Evidence for Rod-Shaped DNA-Stabilized Silver Nano‑cluster Emitters.” Adv. Mater., 2013, 25, 2757. Cover Article
D. Schultz and E.G. Gwinn, “Silver Atom and Strand Numbers in Fluorescent and Dark Ag:DNAs.” Chem. Comm., 2012, 48, 5748.
D. Schultz and E.G. Gwinn, “Stabilization of Fluorescent Silver Clusters by RNA Homopolymers and their DNA Analogs: C,G versus A,T(U) Dichotomy.” Chem. Comm., 2011, 47, 4715.
S. M. Copp, D. Schultz, S. Swasey, J. Pavlovich, M. Debord, A. Chiu, K. Olsson, and E. Gwinn, “Magic Numbers in DNA-Stabilized Fluorescent Silver Clusters Lead to Magic Colors”, J. Phys. Chem. Lett., 2014, 5, 6, 959.
S. M. Swasey, N. Karimova, C.M. Aikens, D.E. Schultz, A.J. Simon, and E.G. Gwinn, “Chiral Electronic Transitions in Fluorescent Silver Clusters Stabilized by DNA”, ACS Nano,2014, 8, 6883.
N. Markešević, S. Oemrawsingh, D. Schultz, E.G. Gwinn and D. Bouwmeester, “Polarization Resolved Measurements of Individual DNA-Stabilized Silver Clusters”, Adv. Opt. Mater., 2014, 2, 765.
K. Afonin, D. Schultz, L. Jaeger, E.G. Gwinn, and B.A. Shapiro, “Silver Nanoclusters for RNA Nanotechnology: Steps Toward Visualization and Tracking RNA Nanoparticle Assemblies.” RNA Nanotechnology and Therapeutics: Methods in Molecular Biology, 2015, 1297, 69.
E.G. Gwinn, D. Schultz, S.M. Copp and S. Swasey, “DNA-Protected Silver Clusters for Nanophotonics”, Nanomaterials, 2015, 5, 180.
S. M. Copp, D. Schultz, S. Swasey and E.G. Gwinn, “Atomically Precise Arrays of Fluorescent Silver Clusters: a modular approach for metal photonics on DNA nanostructures”, ACS Nano, 2015, 9, 2303.
S. M. Copp, D. Schultz, S. Swasey, A. Faris and E.G. Gwinn, “Cluster Plasmonics: dielectric and shape effects on DNA-stabilized silver clusters”, Nano Letters, 2016, 16, 3594.
A. Celedon, S.R.K Murthy, Z. Xu, D.E. Schultz, T. Horn. “Detection Units and Methods for Detecting a Target Analyte. WO 2015/120147.
