Dr. Bradley Lusk is born and raised in Phoenix, Arizona. As a young child, he attended Desert Winds Elementary school- then a Title 1 public school made entirely from portable buildings. His classrooms often had no air conditioning during the hot Arizona summers and no heating during the cool Arizona winters. Due to the poor conditions of the particle board that was used to construct the classrooms of his school, feral cats often lived in the walls. After grade school, he attended Deer Valley Middle School and Barry Goldwater High School as a member of the International Baccalaureate (IB) Program. During high school, he played football during his freshman year and ultimately joined track and cross country where he developed a knack for running that he continues to this day. In his last years of high school, he traveled to Australia and New Zealand via the People to People exchange program, and studied at Cambridge University through the Cambridge College Program.

After graduating high school, he joined Arizona State University as an undecided major. Here, he joined a nonprofit educational outreach program called Camp Sparky which solidified his passion to operate as a science educator. During his Sophomore year, he studied the philosophy of religion and New Zealand and gothic literature at the University of Waikato in Hamilton, New Zealand. Upon returning to the USA, he enrolled as a biology major and graduated with a BS in Biology and a certificate in the Philosophy of Science in 2009.  

In 2009, he enrolled in the Biological Design graduate program. At the same time, he started his first business selling vintage collectibles and audio equipment and invested in real estate to pay his way through college. He graduated with a PhD in Biological Design in 2015 and has published in several peer reviewed journals including: Journal of the American Chemical Society, Environmental Science & Technology, Microbial Biotechnology,  Bioelectrochemistry, Journal of Responsible Innovation, TechConnect Briefs, and Genome Announcements. 

He is the founder and CEO of Science The Earth, the CEO of Precient Technologies, LLC, and has served as adjunct professor at South Mountain Community College in the School of Math, Science, & Engineering.

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Academics

The Biodesign Institute at Arizona State University 
Doctor of Philosophy, Biological Design, December 2015
​Focus on Environmental Biotechnology

Arizona State University
Bachelor of Science, Biology, May 2009
Certificate in the Philosophy of Science​

Curriculum Vitae

• Bradley G. Lusk, Peraza, I, Marcus, AK, Albal, G, Popat, SC, and Torres, CI. 2018. pH Dependency in Anode Biofilms of Thermincola ferriacetica Suggests a Proton-Dependent Electrochemical Response . Journal of the American Chemical Society.  140 (16), 5527–5534.  doi: 10.1021/jacs.8b01734
• Bradley G. Lusk, Colin, A, Parameswaran, P,  Rittmann, BE, and Torres, CI. 2018. Simultaneous fermentation of cellulose and current production with an enriched mixed culture of thermophilic bacteria in a microbial electrolysis cell. Microbial Biotechnology, 11 (1) 63-73​. doi:10.1111/1751-7915.12733​
• Bradley G. Lusk, Zhou, C, Tomaswick, A, and Rittmann, BE. 2018. Using the Membrane Biofilm Reactor (MBfR) to Recover Platinum Group Metals (PGMs) as Nanoparticles from Wastewater. TechConnect Briefs. ISBN 978-0-9988782-3-2
• Bradley G. Lusk. 2018. Representation for the underrepresented: the importance of the multidirectional exchange of values between scientists, STEM educators, and historically underrepresented members of the community to ensure inclusiveness and democracy in responsible research and innovation. Journal of Responsible Innovation. In press.   
• Bradley G. Lusk, Parameswaran, P, Popat, SC, Rittmann, BE, and Torres, CI. 2016. The Effect of pH and Buffer Concentration on Anode Biofilms of Thermincola ferriacetica. Bioelectrochemistry.  112 (2016) 47–52. doi:10.1016/j.bioelechem.2016.07.007
• Bradley G. Lusk, Badalamenti JP, Parameswaran P, Bond DR, Torres CI. 2015. Draft genome sequence of the Gram-positive thermophilic iron reducer Thermincola ferriacetica strain Z-0001T. Genome Announcements. 3(5):e01072-15. doi:10.1128/genomeA.01072-15.
• Bradley G. Lusk, Khan, QF, Parameswaran, P, Hameed, A, Ali, N, Rittmann, BE, Torres, CI. 2015. Characterization of Electrical Current-Generation Capabilities from Thermophilic Bacterium Thermoanaerobacter pseudethanolicus Using Xylose, Glucose, Cellobiose, or Acetate with Fixed Anode Potentials. Environmental Science & Technology, 49 (24), 14725–14731. doi: 10.1021/acs.est.5b04036
• Parameswaran, P, Bry, T, Popat, SC, Lusk, BG, Rittmann, BE, Torres, CI. 2013. Kinetic, Electrochemical, and Microscopic Characterization of the Thermophilic, Anode-Respiring Bacterium Thermincola ferriacetica. Environmental Science and Technology, 47, 4934−4940. doi: 10.1021/es400321c
• Ray Keeler and Bradley G. Lusk. 2018. Microbiome analysis of bacteria in Grand Canyon Caverns, Arizona, USA. In Prep.
• Peraza, I, Marcus, AK, Bradley G. Lusk. 2018. Modelling dynamic shifts in Nernst-Monod kinetics of thermophilic biofilms composed of anode respiring bacteria. In prep. 
• Bradley G. Lusk and Liza C. Kurtz. 2018. Using pop culture and comic book conventions as an efficacious pedagogy for informal Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Mathematics (STEAM) education. In prep.