Bernardo Cordovez, PhD

CSO and Co-Founder of Halo Labs

Bernardo Cordovez, PhD, leads application and business development, and is one of the Halo Labs’ founders. He was previously CEO and CTO and played a pivotal role in bringing over $6M in federal grant funding. Prior to starting Halo Labs, Bernardo was a Postdoctoral Associate at Cornell University, where he also obtained his MS and PhD degrees in mechanical engineering. His wide range of technical experience includes particle analysis, detection and manipulation, drug delivery devices, microfluidics, nanophotonics and bioenergy production. In 2012, Bernardo was named one of Philadelphia’s top 30 under 30 entrepreneurs. The same year Halo Labs was named Philadelphia Life Science Startup of the year by the Greater Philadelphia Alliance for Capital and Technologies.