You can email me at mark at depristo.com.
You can email me at mark at depristo.com.
My LinkedIn profile can be viewed here. I also spend a lot of time on my Facebook page.
My resume is available as a PDF document.
Immediately after completing my Ph.D., I enrolled in the 2004 Physiology course held by the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Massachusetts.
In 2004 I earned my Ph.D. in Biochemistry at Cambridge University funded by a U.S. National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship (2002) and a British Marshall Scholarship (2000).
In 2000 I graduated from Northwestern University with a double degree in Computer Science and Mathematics. While there I won a Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship (1998) and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. I was even elected Psychology Student of the Year, although I'm not sure how that happened.
In 2007 I spent three weeks on Fuerteventura in the Canary Islands learning to kitesurf.
In 2000 I became seriously interested in photography while traveling in South-East Asia. You can see photos from 2000 to now on my photography website.
I've been skiing since 1984 and snowboarding since 1995, visiting most resorts in the Northeast, Colorado, Utah, and California, and a few in Europe. At the end of 2007 I lived in Breckenridge, CO for a few months.
While living in England I became a pretty avid badminton and squash player.
I'm also a huge fan of traveling, having visited almost all fifty American states, Porto Rico, the Bahamas, England, Scotland, Wales, Denmark, France, Germany, Austria, Spain, Corsica, Italy, The Czech Republic, Croatia, Kazakhstan, South Korea, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Borneo, Vietnam, the Grand Canary islands, and New Zealand.