Claron was a CNS Graduate Fellow from 2008 to 2011. His research involved the characterization of nanostructures on metal/metal adsorbate systems. At CNS-UCSB he investigated the process of innovation through the emergence of nanotechnology. Claron was born and raised in the great state of Delaware (The First State). After graduating from Newark High School in 1998 he entered collage life at the University of Delaware getting a B.S. in Chemistry in 2005.