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Arunava Majumdar
Professor of Mechanical Engineering,
University of California, Berkeley;
Chair, Board of Advisors, ASME
Nanotechnology Institute


Dr. Majumdar is currently a Professor and the Vice Chair of the Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, where he has been a faculty member since 1996. He received his Bachelors in Mechanical Engineering in 1985 from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay. He completed his M.S. and PhD in Mechanical Engineering from UC Berkeley in 1987 and 1989, respectively, after which he has been a faculty member at Arizona State University (1989-92) and UC Santa Barbara (1992-96). His research interests span many topics in micro/nanoscale science and engineering, including phonon and electron transport in low-dimensional semiconductor nanostructures; microscale energy conversion devices; scanning probe microscopy and nanoscale instrumentation; and biomolecular nanomechanics and microarray chips for protein and nucleic acid analysis. He is a recipient of the NSF Young Investigator Award, the Melville Medal from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) as well as the ASME Gustus Larson Memorial Award for outstanding achievements. Prof. Majumdar is serving as the Chair of the Advisory Board of the ASME Nanotechnology Institute. He also serves on the DOE Council for Energy Engineering Research (CEER). He is currently the editor of Microscale Thermophysical Engineering and an associate editor of the Int. J. Heat & Mass Transfer and the ASME J. Heat Transfer.


 
 
 
     
 

 
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