Biographical Sketch - Juan G. Santiago
Prof. Juan G. Santiago is an Associate Professor in the Mechanical Engineering Department at Stanford. He specializes in microscale transport phenomena and electrokinetics. He received his MS and PhD in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). He was a Senior Member of the Technical Staff at the Aerospace Corporation ('95 - '97), won a Ford Foundation Postodoctoral Fellowship ('97), and worked as a Research Scientist at UIUC’s Beckman Institute ('97 - '98). His research includes the development of microsystems for on-chip electrophoresis, drug delivery, sample concentration methods, and miniature fuel cells. Applications of this work include genetic analysis, drug discovery, chemical weapon detection, and power generation. He has received a Frederick Emmons Terman Faculty Fellowship ('98-'01); won the National Inventor’s Hall of Fame Collegiate Inventors Competition ('01); was awarded the Outstanding Achievement in Academia Award by the GEM Foundation ('06); and was awarded a National Science Foundation Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engieers (PECASE) ('03-'08). He is on the editorial board of the Journal of Microfluidics and Nanofluidics, an Associated Editor of the journal Lab on a Chip, co-founder of Cooligy Inc., co-inventor of micron-resolution particle image velocimetry (Micro-PIV), and director of the Stanford Microfluidics Laboratory. Santiago has given 13 keynote and named lectures and more than 100 additional invited lectures. He and his students have been awarded nine best paper and best poster awards. Since 1998, he has graduated 14 PhD students and advised 10 postdoctoral researchers (ten of his advisees are professors at major universities). He has also authored and co-authored 80 archival publications, authored and co-authored 170 conference papers, and been awarded 25 patents.