John Eid is the Chief Science Officer and co-founder of Pendulum. John has led technology development teams for over two decades in diverse areas that include advanced microscopy, single molecule detection and analyses, automated data acquisition systems, biophysical systems modeling, and genome sequencing applications.

Prior to co-founding Pendulum, John was a principal scientist at Pacific Biosciences. John completed his postdoctoral research at the Roland Institute at Harvard University, received his PhD in Biophysics and Computational Biology at the University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign and his BS in Applied and Engineering Physics from Cornell University.