Andrew Steckl's Biography

Andrew Steckl, Gieringer Professor, Ohio Eminent Scholar, University Distinguished Research Professor, University of Cincinnati

Andrew Steckl is Ohio Eminent Scholar, Gieringer Professor and University Distinguished Research Professor at the University of Cincinnati in the Departments of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and Materials Science and Engineering. Dr. Steckl obtained his BS degree from Princeton University and his MS and PhD degrees from University of Rochester. He is a Life Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineering (IEEE), Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors, and Fellow of American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) “For Distinguished Contributions to Optoelectronics”.

After several years in industrial R&D, Dr. Steckl joined Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1976 as a faculty member in the Electrical & Computer Engineering Department, where he founded the Center for Integrated Electronics, a multi-disciplinary campus-wide activity. At the University of Cincinnati since 1988, research activities in Dr. Steckl’s Nanoelectronics Laboratory currently include: (1) biosensors; (2) microfluidic lab-on-chip devices; (3) electrospinning of complex nanofibers and membranes for chem/bio/med applications. To date, Prof. Steckl has graduated 47 Ph. D. students and has supervised 13 post-doctoral fellows. Together with his students, he has published ~ 440 papers, which have received over 13,000 citations to date. This has resulted in a citation h-index of 61. Prof. Steckl has also obtained 26 patents on various electronic materials and devices. Additional information at: www.nanolab.uc.edu