David Erickson
S.C. Thomas Sze Director of the Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Sibley College Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Biography
David Erickson is the SC Thomas Sze Director and Sibley College Professor in the Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Cornell University. He is also a joint Professor within the Division of Nutritional Sciences. His research focuses on: mobile and global health technology, medical diagnostics, microfluidics, photonics, and nanotechnology. Prior to joining the faculty, he was a postdoctoral scholar at the California Institute of Technology and he received his Ph.D. degree from the University of Toronto. Research in the Erickson lab is or has been primarily funded through grants from the NIH, NSF, ARPA-E, ONR, DOE, DARPA, USAID, Nutrition International, and Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN). Prof. Erickson has helped to found numerous start-up companies commercializing: high-throughput pharmaceutical instrumentation, biomedical diagnostics, and energy technologies including Halo Labs, VitaScan and Dimensional Energy. Dr. Erickson has received the DARPA-MTO Young Faculty Award, the NSF CAREER Award, the Department of Energy Early Career Award, among others. In 2011 he was awarded the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientist and Engineers (PECASE) by President Obama. For his efforts in co-founding the field of optofluidics, Erickson has been named a fellow of the Optical Society of America and the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.
Research Interests
- Computational Fluid Dynamics
- Fluid Dynamics and Rheology
- Energy Systems
- Energy and the Environment
- Microfluidics and Microsystems
- Nanobio Applications
- Nanotechnology
- Biomedical Engineering
- Bioengineering
- Biomedical Imaging and Instrumentation
- Microfluidics
- Thermal Systems
- Molecular and Cellular Engineering
- Biophysics
- Micro Nano Systems
- Bioengineering and Healthcare
Selected Awards and Honors
- Defense Sciences Study Group (2016-2017)
- Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, ASME (2014)
- Prism Award Finalist, for Optofluidics’s Molecular NanoTweezer, SPIE (2014)
- Pittcon Silver New Product Award, for Optofluidics’s Molecular NanoTweezer (2013)
- Corporate Innovator Award, for Optofluidic’s Inc., IEEE (2013)
- Fellow of the Optical Society of America, OSA (2012)
- Philadelphia Life Sciences Start-up of the Year, Greater Philadelphia Alliance for Capital and Technologies (2012)
- Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, PECASE (2011)
- Department of Energy Early Career Award (2010)
- National Science Foundation CAREER Award (2009)
- 4th U.S. – Japan NSF Young Researchers Exchange Program (2007)
- DARPA-MTO Young Faculty Award (2007)
- Robert ’55 and Vanne ’57 Cowie Excellence in Teaching Award (2007)
Education
- Post-Doc, Electrical Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA (2005)
- Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON (2004)
- M.A.Sc., Mechanical Engineering, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON (2001)
- B.Sc. – Mechanical Engineering, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB (1999)