Victor Ugaz's Biography

Victor Ugaz, Professor & Interim Department Head, Texas A&M University

Victor M. Ugaz is a Professor and Interim Department Head in the Artie McFerrin Department of Chemical Engineering at Texas A&M University. He holds the title of Carolyn S. & Tommie E. Lohman '59 Professor in Engineering Education and serves as Chair of the interdisciplinary Master of Biotechnology (MBIOT) program. Dr. Ugaz’s research interests involve developing microfluidic systems to enable fast and inexpensive medical diagnostics and to understand the spontaneous organization of chemical building blocks essential to the origin of life.