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Ilan Gur

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Chief Executive Officer at Advanced Research and Invention Agency
📍 United Kingdom

Ilan Gur is the CEO of the UKs Advanced Research and Invention Agency (ARIA), focused on funding high-risk, high-reward scientific breakthroughs. He holds a Ph. D. in Materials Science from UC Berkeley and previously founded Activate. org to support entrepreneurial scientists, as well as two other science-based startups.

His career demonstrates a deep, personal commitment to empowering scientists to solve major world problems. He focuses on creating systems that allow brilliant researchers to transform their ideas into world-changing products and businesses, indicating this mission is a core personal driver.

Unique fact: He holds multiple patents, including one for a solid electrolyte material that can be manufactured using polymer processing methods.

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Experience
6 Years
Current Role
Chief Executive Officer
Job Level
Leadership
Location
United Kingdom
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Scientific Entrepreneurship
He founded Activate. org to help scientists turn research into products and has founded two science-based startups himself.
Breakthrough R&D Funding
As CEO of ARIA and a former Program Director at ARPA-E, his career is centered on funding ambitious, high-impact scientific research.
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Career

Work history

8-2022
Chief Executive Officer
Advanced Research and Invention Agency
Schmidt Futures Innovation Fellow
Schmidt Futures
6-2019 - 8-2022
Founder & Chief Executive Officer
Activate.org
6-2019
Founder, Cyclotron Road | Division Director Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
Berkeley Lab
Program Director | Senior Advisor, Commercialization
Advanced Research Projects Agency—Energy (ARPA-E)
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Education
1998 - 2006
B.S./M.S./Ph.D.
University of California, Berkeley
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