David Proctor is Adjunct Faculty at Mid Michigan College. Previously, he was Adjunct Faculty at Saginaw Valley State University and a Scientific Review Officer with CSRA Inc. David was a AAAS Science & Technology Policy Fellow in the Division of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure at the National Science Foundation, and a Research Associate and Christine Mirzayan Science and Technology Policy Fellow with the Committee on Science, Engineering, and Public Policy at the National Academies. David completed his postdoctoral research in structural biology at the University of Dundee in Scotland, where he helped to establish the UK Research Staff Association to provide a collective voice for UK researchers. He completed a doctorate in chemistry at the Pennsylvania State University.