Jeffrey Rodgers, Ph.D. is a physical chemist, musician, and educator. He earned his Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry from the University of Pennsylvania in 2018, where his research used vibrational (infrared) and visible/fluorescent spectroscopy to probe protein folding dynamics — experiments that required modeling molecular frequencies across orders of magnitude.
The idea for Eigentone emerged from that work: the realization that hydrogen emission lines, quantum oscillators, and planetary resonances could all be rescaled into the audible range, making physics you can hear.
Following postdoctoral research on the molecular basis of brain injury and neurodegeneration at Penn Medicine, he moved into science education, where he now teaches and guides students through original research — the same scientific process he lived through in graduate school.
A cellist since 4th grade and a self-taught guitarist, bassist, and vocalist, he has been interested in sound engineering for nearly a decade. Eigentone is where all of it converged.