Leadership

Rubin/Anders Scientific, Inc. is a full-service science and technology consulting company providing the insight, expertise, and creativity of the best scientific and technology minds in the world. Rubin/Anders Scientific experts are handpicked for their scientific knowledge, credentials and uncommon ability to communicate clearly.

Ron Rubin, Ph.D., has been in and around science his entire career. He has been on the faculty in applied mathematics at MIT and a research scientist at the Weizmann Institute for Science in Israel. His work in science and education has been published in leading science journals and covered in The New York Times, the Boston Globe Magazine, Die Zeit, and El Pais. He received a Ph.D. in physics from Harvard and B.A. Summa Cum Laude from Princeton.

Richard Anders is a seasoned entrepreneur with a strong background and interest in computers. A lawyer by training, he founded Jurisoft, which he sold to Lexis/Nexis, published Boston Digital Industry, and was a founding trustee of the Massachusetts Interactive Media Council. Mr. Anders is a trustee of the Boston Museum of Science, a member of the MIT/Harvard Medical School HST program advisory council and a corporator of the Boston Biomedical Research Institute. Mr. Anders is a graduate Summa Cum Laude in mathematics from Harvard and holds a J.D. from Harvard Law School.

Sheldon Glashow, Ph.D. is Chief Scientific Advisor to Rubin/Anders. Dr. Glashow is one of the leading physicists of the age. His work on electroweak theory, which included characterizing the property of quarks he named "charm," led to his being awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1979. A long-time professor of Physics at Harvard, Dr. Glashow is currently the University Professor of Science at Boston University. Commenting on the unique value of expertise applied to the appropriate project, Dr. Glashow recalled how "my father the plumber once told me that he had repaired a complex heating system with a single well-placed kick of his foot."