Juan Santiago's Biography

Juan Santiago, Charles Lee Powell Foundation Professor, Stanford University

Juan Santiago received his MS and PhD in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1992 and 1995. His research includes the development of microsystems for on-chip chemical analysis, drug delivery, sample preparation methods, and desalination of water. Applications of this work include molecular medical diagnostics, drug discovery, environmental monitoring, and the production of drinking water. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineering, Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering, an Associate Editor of the journal Microfluidics and Nanofluidics, co-founder of several companies in the microfluidics area, co-inventor of micron-resolution particle image velocimetry, and director of the Stanford Microfluidics Laboratory. He served as Associate Editor of Lab on a Chip '08-'13. He has given over 30 keynote and named lectures and more than 100 additional invited lectures. As one measure of impact, his work is cited about 1500 times per year. He has graduated 27 PhD students and advised eight postdoctoral researchers. 17 of his former advisees are now professors at major universities. He has authored and co-authored over 150 archival publications and 200 conference papers, and holds 47 patents (24 of which are currently licensed).