Professionals

Natalie Beaton is a technical advisor in the intellectual property section of Porter Hedges, specializing in the chemical, biological and mechanical arts.

While an undergraduate at Cornell University, Dr. Beaton received several scholarships and grants, and was selected as a member of the Tau Beta Pi engineering honor society. While completing her Ph.D. at the University of Houston, she was awarded a graduate fellowship from Texaco. Dr. Beaton’s graduate research was in the area of ion-exchange chromatography, with an emphasis on competition and rapid kinetics. This work involved the creation and characterization of heme-substituted cytochromes b5 which were used to study the effect of charge distribution/net charge on adsorption competition. Dr. Beaton has co-authored papers in the Journal of Chromatography A.

Prior to joining the Firm, Dr. Beaton was a technical advisor at Conley Rose.