Douglas Steel, PhD is the Founder of NeuroSense. A Translational Scientist, he has worked for the past 30 years in the field of brain-environment interactions, developing alternatives to drug use to improve health outcomes. For the past several years he has been working on the development of spectrally tunable LED lighting arrays and protocols, which complement existing methods for treatment of a number of neurological and psychiatric conditions in both elderly and childhood populations. Recently he has begun to apply this to the development of Phygital spaces, responsive dynamic environments, and immersive experiences for medical, health, and wellness applications.

He is also a serial entrepreneur, having founded or co-founded and managed technology start-up companies over the past 17 years in a number of life science areas. For several years he was an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at the University of Utah.

Doug has over 30 years of experience in pharmaceutical drug design and discovery, and research project management and implementation divided between academia and the pharmaceutical industry. He has received training in medical sciences and neuroscience, theoretical and applied biotechnology, integrative neuroscience, and rainforest ethnobotany. He is the author of over 20 publications in scientific journals and books in the areas of drug design, drug discovery, neuro-biochemistry, and marine biochemistry. He has also written over 30 technology articles in the popular press.

Doug was an NIH postdoctoral research fellow in the Neuroscience Program at the University of Utah. He holds a PhD (Biomedical Sciences, Columbia University), an MPhil (Pathology, Columbia), an MS (Psychobiology, Univ. of Florida, and a BA (Biology, Kalamazoo College). He also held pharmaceutical research positions at The Upjohn Company, CIBA-Geigy, and Syntex Pharmaceuticals.

Doug is a member of the Research and Science Advisory Panels and the Hospitality Technical Committee of the IES (Illuminating Engineering Society), a Founding Member of the World Experience Organization, and also serves on the Science Advisory Boards of the LESA Center at RPI (Lighting Enabled Systems and Applications) and the Bronowski Institute of Behavioral Neuroscience in Victoria, Australia