2014-present, Samuel Y Sheng Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Columbia University
2015-present Department of Systems Biology, Columbia University
2006-2014 Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Duke University Professor, Division of Experimental Surgery, School of Medicine, Duke University
2008-2011 Distinguished Visiting Professor, National University of Singapore
1999-2006 Principal Investigator, Division of Johns Hopkins in Singapore
1998-2006 Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
1998-2004 Program Director and Technical Advisor to Institute of Materials Research and Engineering, Singapore 1991-1998 Associate Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
1990-2005 Director of Master Program in Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University
1986-1991 Assistant Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Ph.D. Chemical Engineering, University of Pennsylvania
B.S. Chemical Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara
Research Areas
Nano/Microscale Multiphase and Reactive Flows in Porous Media
Geologic and Engineered Carbon Storage and Mineralization
Enhanced Geothermal Systems (EGS)
Sustainable Resource Production - in situ critical mineral recovery and lower-carbon hydrocarbon recovery
Other Subsurface Sustainable Energy & Water Applications: enhanced weathering, hydrogeology, aquifer remediation, hydrogen storage, deep nuclear waste storage, etc.
Distinguished Faculty Teaching Award (DFTA), Columbia Engineering Alumni Association's (CEAA), May 2024.
2024 Medal of Merit for Best Paper Related to Canadian Petroleum Geology, the Canadian Energy Geoscience Association (GEGA), (co-authors/co-awardees: Watt, E. A., Laycock, D. P., Michael, E., Tobin, R. C., Kelly, S., Johnston, M. N).
Awardee, Carbontech Development Initiative - New Directions, 2024 (co-PI: Shiho Kawashima).
Young Professional Technical Award, Society of Petrophysicists and Well Log Analysts (SPWLA), 2023.
Awardee, Columbia University Qiu Zhong Wei Research Projects, 2023 (co-PIs: D.R. Nagaraj, Raymond Farinato).
Awardee, Columbia University SEAS Interdisciplinary Research Seed (SIRS) Funding, 2023 (co-PIs: Peter Kelemen, Marc Spiegelman).
Awardee, American Chemical Society (ACS) Petroleum Research Fund, PRF# 66777-DNI9, July 2023.
Awardee, Columbia Climate School Seed Funding, 2023 (co-PI: Peter Kelemen).
Awardee, Provost’s Grants Program for Junior Faculty who Contribute to the Diversity Goals of the University, 2023.
Nominee, J&J WiSTEM2D program - Engineering Track, 2023.
2023- Elected to the Royal Society of Canada – Academy of Science
2023 – Technology Venture Ambassador
2023- Rosalind Franklin Society and Mary Ann Liebert Inc., the best paper in Stem Cells and Development
2023 NIH Advisory Committee to the Director Working Group on Novel Alternative Methods to Animal Testing (ACD-WG)
2023 – Vice-president of the Belgrade University Alumni Association
2022 BIOS Top 50 Academic Life Science Entrepreneurs
2022 National Academy of Engineering, Chair of Section 2: Bioengineering;
2021 Lifetime Achievement Award, Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine Society (TERMIS)
2021 Featured in “Narratives on Discovery”, Rut Charon
2021 Fellow, International Academy of Medical and Biological Engineering (IAMBE)
2021 Life Sciences Power 50
2021 Pierre Galletti Award, AIMBE's highest honor
2020 Order of Karadjordje Star, Serbia’s highest honor
2020 Featured in “Invincible Women: Conversations with 21 Inspiring and Successful American Immigrants” by Bilha Fisch
2020 Petit Distinguished Lecture, Georgia Institute if Technology and Emory, Atlanta
2019 Person of the year in Serbia
2019 Award of the NCATS-ASPIRE Design Challenge for Biological Assays for Translational Innovation in Pain, Opioid Use Disorder and Overdose (with Kacey Ronaldson-Bouchard, Joriene de Nooij and Naveed Tavakol)
2019 Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
2019- HHMI Scientific Review Board
2019 Innovation and Commercialization Award, Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine Society of the Americas (TERMIS)
2019 AIChE Rock Stars of Regenerative Engineering
2019 Shu Chien Achievement Award, Biomedical Engineering Society
2019 Birnberg Medal, College of Dental Medicine, Columbia University
2019 Advisory Council of the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB)
2018 – Advisory Council of the National Institute for Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB)
2017-2020 Center for Advancement of Science in Space (CASIS), Board of Directors; Chair of the Science and Technology Committee
2017 Robert A. Pritzker Award for 2017, Biomedical Engineering Society
2017 NIBIB National Advisory Council speaker, NIH, January 24, 2017.
2017-2018 American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering, Chair of the College of Fellows
2017 Doctorate Honoris Causa, University of Novi Sad, Serbia
2016-2017 Chair, College of Fellows, American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIBME)
2016 –2018 Board of Directors, American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE)
2016-2022 “Cardiac Contractility, Hypertrophy, and Failure” study section, permanent member; resigned effective May 22, 2018 following election to the NIBIB National Advisory Council
2016 Award of the Materials Research Society of Serbia for Lasting and Outstanding Contribution to Material Science and Engineering
2015 Bioengineering Peer Committee, National Academy of Engineering
2014 Election to the National Academy of Inventors
2014 Election to the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
2014 Election to the National Academy of Medicine
2014 Foreign Policy’s 100 Leading Global Thinkers of 2014
2013 National Academy of Engineering, Executive Committee, Section for Bioengineering; Fritz J and Dolores H Russ Prize Committee
2013 Founding Class of the International Fellows of Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine
2012 Election to the National Academy of Engineering
2012 Election to the Academia Europea
2012 Election to the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts
2012 Election to the Serbian National Academy of Engineering
2012 Fellow, Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES)
2010 Clemson award of the Society of Biomaterials “for significant contributions to the literature on the science or technology of biomaterials”
2009 Election to the New York Academy of Sciences
2008 Hall of Fame, Women in Technology International (one of 5 leaders in science and technology in 2008)
2008- 2010 Chair, NIH Study section on Biomaterials and Biointerfaces (BMBI)
2008 US Section Head, Musculoskeletal Repair & Regeneration Section, Faculty 1000 of Medicine
2007 NIH Director’s lecture, the first woman engineer to receive this distinction
2004 Outstanding Performance Medal, World Congress of in vitro Biology
2004-2006 Three Space Act Awards, NASA, for patents
2000 American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE), Fellow
1997 Medal of recognition, Centennial of the Serbian Chemical Society, Belgrade YU
1996 – 97 Space study of cartilage tissue engineering aboard “Mir”, in collaboration with NASA Johnson Space Center (co-lead of the 13-member team, with LE Freed); the longest cell experiment ever conducted in space; study reported in PNAS)