Jeff Whalen is the Founder and Director of MagCorp, a magnetics solutions company that connects businesses with the world’s premier magnet experts at The National High Magnetic Field Lab at Florida State University to provide magnetically enabled solutions to market-driven problems. Jeff was a Research Faculty member at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory from 2012 to 2019, where he led a successful materials science and electromagnet systems research group, until he joined FSU’s Jim Moran College of Entrepreneurship as the STEM Entrepreneur in Residence from 2019 to 2023, and then later returned to The National High Magnetic Field Lab, where is currently the Director of The Rare Earth Initiative Project. Jeff has a PhD in chemistry and has extensive experience in venture creation, having started and operated multiple STEM-enabled companies over his 20-year entrepreneurial journey.