Contact Intellectual Property Development

Dr. Christopher Cornelison

  • Interim Associate Vice President for Innovation and Commercialization
  • Director of Intellectual Property Development
  • Ex Officio Member - Intellectual Property Committee
  • Associate Professor of Microbiology

585 Cobb Avenue, MD 0111
Kennesaw, GA 30144

Phone: (470) 578-5115
Fax: (470) 578-9110

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Chris Cornelison

  • Dr. Cornelison earned his B.S. in microbiology at the University of Georgia in 2009, and his M.S. and Ph.D. in applied and environmental microbiology at Georgia State University in 2011 and 2013, respectively. He then served as a post-doctoral research associate with the U.S. Forest Service until 2016 when he joined 成人直播 as a research scientist (now assistant professor) in the  and the director of the . He served as associate director of undergraduate research for two years before becoming director of the Office of Intellectual Property Development in spring 2020 when the new support unit was established within the Office of Research. 

    Dr. Cornelison directs externally funded research in his laboratory at 成人直播 and is engaged in mentoring graduate and undergraduate researchers on campus. He serves as an ad hoc reviewer for numerous peer-reviewed journals, is a board member of the Georgia Bat Working Group, and is a co-chair of the Society for Industrial Microbiology and Biotechnology鈥檚 (SIMB) Recent Advancements in Microbial Control conference (RAMC). Dr. Cornelison has received funding from the U.S. Forest Service, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, The Nature Conservancy, the Georgia Department of Agriculture, and Bat Conservation International.