Steven Graves's Biography

Steven Graves, Associate Professor/Associate Director, University Of New Mexico

Steven W. Graves received his Ph. D. from The Pennsylvania State University in 1998, joined the National Flow Cytometry Resource at Los Alamos National Laboratory in 1999, became a Technical Staff Member in 2001, and advanced to Team Leader of Optical Spectroscopy and Instrumentation in 2007. He moved to the University of New Mexico in 2008 as Associate Director for the Center for Biomedical Engineering. He is now a Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering. His research focuses on the development of biomedical instrumentation, diagnostic assays, and the study of molecular assemblies. Recently, he has applied cellular micromanipulation technologies in combination with inexpensive low-power components to create small low-cost flow cytometry approaches that will be of use both in point of care settings and as in highly parallel flow cytometers. He has over fifty publications, seven patents, and several awards, including a 2007 R&D100 award for the development of Portable Acoustic Cytometry.