Juan Santiago

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Microfluidic and nanotechnologies for chemistry, biology, and bioengineering

Professor. Juan G. Santiago has Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC); where he received five fellowships as a doctoral candidate. He was a Senior Member of the Technical Staff at the Aerospace Corporation ('95 - '97), where his work included the development of flow diagnostics for micronozzles. Prof. Santiago received a Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship ('97), and worked as a Research Scientist at UIUC's Beckman Institute ('97 - '98). Santiago is an Associate Professor in the Mechanical Engineering Department at Stanford. He specializes in microscale transport phenomena, electrokinetics, and microfluidic system design. His research includes the optimization and development of novel microsystems for pumping liquids, on-chip electrophoresis, sample concentration methods, and miniature fuel cells. The applications of this work include microfabricated bioanalytical systems for genetic analysis, drug discovery, bioweapon detection, drug delivery, and power generation. He has received a Frederick Emmons Terman 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 PECASE Award ('03-'08). He is co-founder of Cooligy Inc., co-inventor of micron-resolution particle image velocimetry, and director of the Stanford Microfluidics Laboratory. Santiago has given 13 keynote and named lectures and over 100 additional invited lectures. He and his students have been awarded nine best paper and best poster awards. Since 1998, he has graduated 13 PhD students, advised 10 postdoctoral researchers, authored and co-authored 75 archival publications, authored and co-authored 150 conference papers, and been awarded 23 patents.