Interested in
what works,
and why.
My background spans music, scientific research, and operations. Across each, I’ve learned the same way: immerse myself in the environment, work shoulder to shoulder with the people doing it, and follow my curiosity toward what matters and why.
Whatever the field, if you’re building something you care about, I’d be glad to talk.
Jacob Allen Freitag
Path / 2008–Present
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2008–2012
Music and composition
Classically trained in piano and composition, shaped by performance, interpretation, and building ideas from first principles.
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2012–2018
Startups and operations
Built operating discipline inside growing companies, including fieldwork across rural Kansas installing assistive communication technology for older adults with hearing loss and training them to use it.
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2018–Present
Bioengineering research and applied project work
Research at the University of Kansas spanning biomaterials, peptide engineering, and industry-sponsored work, alongside applied project work.
Affiliations
I hold an Adjunct Researcher appointment at the University of Kansas (through 2027).
This site reflects my personal interests and thinking, independent of my university appointment.
Current Questions
If you can inform one, or want to discuss it, I’d be glad to hear from you.
- Data and narrative: how storytelling carries what data can’t
- How taxonomies determine what gets counted, funded, and recognized, in science and in the arts
- How states plan to coordinate long-term impact for their constituents
- The applications of bioengineering beyond therapies
- Where high-spec materials processing will inform biomaterial interfaces