ALA Spotlight Series Faculty Advisor Steve Hamilton, Ph.D. Steven Hamilton received a Ph.D. in Analytical Chemistry from Purdue University in 1983. He served as the Team Leader of Fermentation Automation Development at Eli Lilly from 1983-1992, creating that companies first successful laboratory automation effort. Steve then joined Scitec Inc. as R&D Manager to lead the startup of the U.S. office. In 1994 he joined Amgen Inc. in Thousand Oaks, CA to create a laboratory automation effort, largely focused on the Human Genome effort. The following year he was appointed Director of Automation and Information Services at the Amgen Boulder, CO site, where he and his staff provided technology support in the creation of the companies' first small molecule program. Steve is currently with Sanitas Consulting, in Boulder, CO. Steve was honored with the 1986 Pioneer In Laboratory Robotics Award, 1992 Scitec/TNO award and the 1999 ALA Achievement Award. He has served on the ALA Board of Directors, the Editorial Boards of Laboratory Robotics and Automation and the Journal of the Association of Laboratory Automation. Together with his colleagues he has annually taught short courses on laboratory automation since 1993.