Main contributors to the fundamental principles and techniques in microfluidics issue

Plate1 Juan 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 Postdoctoral 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 Engineers (PECASE) ('03–'08). He is on the editorial boards of the Journal of Microfluidics and Nanofluidics and 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 95 archival publications, authored and co-authored 190 conference papers, and been awarded 25 patents.

Plate2 Chuan-Hua Chen

Chuan-Hua Chen is Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science at Duke University, where he directs research in interfacial flows and microfluidics at the Microscale Physicochemical Hydrodynamics Laboratory. Dr Chen received his BS degree in Applied Mechanics from Peking University (1998), MS and PhD degrees in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University (2004). Prior to joining Duke in 2007, he held positions as a postdoctoral associate at Princeton University and a research scientist at Rockwell Scientific Company. In 2009, Dr Chen received the Powe Award from Oak Ridge Associated Universities and the CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation.

Plate3 Jon Cooper

Prof. Jon Cooper holds the Wolfson Chair in Bioengineering. His primary focus is biological systems at the micro- and nanoscale. He has strong collaborations in the fields of cancer and cardiovascular medicine and close involvement in the commercialisation of chip based diagnostic devices (http://www.modedx.com). He became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 2001 and a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering in 2004.

Plate4 Sandip Ghosal

Sandip Ghosal obtained his B.Sc. (Physics Hon.) from Presidency College in India in 1985, and the M.Phil and Ph.D. in Physics from Columbia University in 1992. After post-doctoral appointments at Stanford (1992–95), Los Alamos (1995–98) and Sandia (1998–99) he joined Northwestern in 1999, where he is currently Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering.

Plate5 Amy Herr

Amy E. Herr is an Assistant Professor at the University of California, Berkeley affiliated with the Joint Graduate Group in Bioengineering (UC Berkeley and UC San Francisco) and a faculty scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Physical Biosciences Division). She completed her BS in Engineering & Applied Science at the California Institute of Technology, and her MS and PhD degrees in Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University. In 2007, after holding a staff scientist position at Sandia National Laboratories, she joined the faculty in Bioengineering at UC Berkeley.

Plate6 Klavs Jensen

Klavs F. Jensen is Warren K. Lewis Professor and Head of Chemical Engineering at MIT. His research interests revolve around microfabrication and integration of microsystems for chemical and biological discovery, synthesis and processing. Catalysis, chemical kinetics and transport phenomena are also of interest. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry.

Plate7 Takehiko Kitamori

Takehiko Kitamori has pioneered microfluidic research in Japan and is the inventor of thermal lens microscopy (TLM). He is the author of more than 200 papers and is currently the vice dean of Engineering at the University of Tokyo. He has recently taken great interest in extended nanospace, defined as 10–1000 nm, and is currently exploring new phenomena in this regime.

Plate8 James Landers

James Landers is Professor of Chemistry, Professor of Mechanical Engineering, and Associate Professor of Pathology at the University of Virginia. His research program is focused on microfluidic systems development for genetic analysis, with a broad-based approach that brings the necessary aspects of chemistry, physics, engineering, spectroscopy and fluid flow dynamics to bear on application-driven problems.

Plate9 Ralph Lindken

Ralph Lindken obtained his PhD from the University of Essen, Germany, in 2001. He joined the Laboratory for Aero- and Hydrodynamics at the Delft University of Technology as a Post-Doc and in 2003 he obtained tenure as Assistant Professor in the same group, where he built up the microfluidics research group. His focus is on fundamental aspects of microfluidics and optical diagnostics for the investigation of microfluidic flows.

Plate10 Todd Squires

Todd Squires received his BS and BA from UCLA in 1995, a CAS from DAMTP at Cambridge as a Churchill Scholar, and PhD in Physics from Harvard in 2002. From 2002–2005, he was a Dubridge Post-Doc and NSF Math Science Post-Doc at Caltech, then joined the Chemical Engineering faculty at UCSB. He studies micro-fluidic phenomena, particularly electrokinetic effects in microdevices and microrheology of complex fluids.

Plate11 Patrick Tabeling

Patrick Tabeling graduated from ESE (France) and obtained his PhD in 1976; from 1976–1984 he was appointed Chargé de Recherches CNRS at LGEP. Then, after a Post-Doc at Chicago University (1984), he joined ENS Paris (1985–2001). Later, after visiting Prof. Ho's group at UCLA in 2000, he joined ESPCI. His centers of interest were physical hydrodynamics, instabilities, turbulence and now his activity is centered on microfluidics.

Plate12 Albert van den Berg

Albert van den Berg received his PhD at the University of Twente in 1988 on the topic of chemically modified ISFETs. From 1988–1993 he worked in Neuchatel, Switzerland at the CSEM and the IMT on miniaturized chemical sensors. From 1993–1999 he was research director µTAS at MESA, University of Twente. In 1998 he was appointed as part-time professor and in 2000 as full professor on Miniaturized Systems for (Bio)Chemical Analysis in the faculty of Electrical Engineering, within the MESA+ Institute for Nanotechnology. In 2002 he received the Simon Stevin Master award from the Dutch Technical Science foundation (STW). In 2009, he was awarded the extremely prestigious Dutch NWO/Spinoza Prize for his outstanding achievement in key areas of microfluidics and miniaturisation. His current research interests focus on microanalysis systems and nanosensors, nanofluidics and single cells on chips, with applications in health care and environment. Albert van den Berg is a member of the Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences (KNAW), the Dutch Health council, board member of the Chemical and Biological Microsystems Society, and deputy chair of the journal Lab on a Chip. He has co-authored over 180 papers and over 10 patents, and has been involved in >5 spin-off companies.

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