Juan G. Santiago

Juan G. Santiago received his MS and PhD in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1995. He is the Charles Lee Powell Foundation Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University. His research includes fundamental studies of micro-transport, the development of microsystems for on-chip biochemical analysis, biophysics studies of DNA, CRISPR kinetics, and flow-electrode electrochemical systems. Applications of this include molecular diagnostics, DNA mapping, and harvesting lithium. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, and a Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering. He is a Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2022) and of the National Academy of Inventors (2022). In 2026, he was elected Member to the National Academy of Engineering. He is the Founding Editor-in-Chief of the journal Flow. His work is cited about 1500 times per year and has an h index of 96 (Google Scholar). He has authored and co-authored over 230 journal papers and 250 conference papers, and he is a named inventor in 60 issued patents (18 of which are currently licensed).