David Gardner is a chemical engineering researcher in Roya Maboudian research lab at the Berkeley Sensor & Actuator Center (BSAC), U. C. Berkeley.  He has previously worked for Bemis Company, Inc. on high-puncture-strength nylon films for food packaging. His current research interests include synthesis and characterization of thin-film metal-organic-frameworks and ceramics. He has won numerous teaching awards, including the Teaching Effectiveness Award, for showing how thermodynamics can be used to make business decisions