Steven Soper's Biography

Steven Soper, Professor, Louisiana State University

Prof. Steven A. Soper received his Ph.D. from the University of Kansas and did his post-doctoral work at Los Alamos National Laboratory. He initiated his academic career at Louisiana State University, where he was the William H. Pryor Professor of Chemistry. Prof. Soper is currently in Biomedical Engineering at the University of North Carolina and Director of the Center for BioModular Multi-Scale Systems. Prof. Soper has generated over $39M in extramural funding, published >255 peer-reviewed works and received several awards, such as the A.A. Benedetti Pichler Award in Microchemistry, American Chemical Society Award in Chemical Instrumentation, AAAS Fellow, Royal Society of Chemistry Fellow and Applied Spectroscopy Fellow. Prof. Soper’s research work focuses on developing new micro- and nano-scale tools for in vitro diagnostics using both cellular and biomolecular markers.