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Professor Joerg Lahann, PhD

Departments of Chemical Engineering, Materials Science & Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, and Macromolecular Science & Engineering

Contact

  • lahann@umich.edu

Education

  • PhD in Macromolecular Chemistry, RWTH Aachen, 1998

  • MS in Chemistry, RWTH Aachen, 1995

  • BS in Chemistry, University of Saarland, 1993

 

Experience

  • Wolfgang Pauli Collegiate Professor of Chemical Engineering, University of Michigan, 2019-Present

  • Director of Biointerfaces Institute, University of Michigan, 2012-Present

  • Co-Director, Institute of Functional Interfaces, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany, 2009-Present

  • Professor, University of Michigan, 2012-2019

  • Associate Professor, University of Michigan, 2008-2012

  • Dow Corning Assistant Professor, University of Michigan, 2005-Present

  • Assistant Professor, University of Michigan, 2003-2008

  • Postdoctoral Associate, Harvard-MIT, Division of Health Sciences and Technology, 2002-2003

  • Postdoctoral Associate, MIT, Department of Chemical Engineering, 1999-2001


Awards

  • Departmental Faculty Excellence Award, Chemical Engineering, University of Michigan, 2016

  • College of Engineering Service Award, University of Michigan, 2015

  • IDEA Team Award for Highly Innovative Breast Cancer Research (Department of Defense, with Samir Mitragotri, UCSB), 2011

  • College of Fellows of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE), 2011

  • College of Engineering Research Excellence Award, University of Michigan, 2010

  • AIChE Young Investigator Award, Nanoscale Science and Engineering Forum, 2007

  • Midwest's Top 20 Researchers, Midwest Research University Network, 2006

  • Departmental Faculty Excellence Award, Chemical Engineering, University of Michigan, 2006

  • DOD IDEA Award, 2006

  • NSF CAREER Award, 2004

  • Technology Review TR100 Young Innovator Award, 2004

  • Research Highlights of 2003 (cover page), Chemical and Engineering News, 2003

  • Justus-Liebig Fellowship of the Fonds of the German Industry, 2000-2001

  • Sigma Xi Full Membership, 2001

  • German Science Foundation Postdoctoral Grant, 1999

  • RWTH Aachen Borchers Prize, 1998

  • Young Student Achievement Award of the Fonds of the German Industry, 1998