Professor
The University of Texas at Austin
Dr. Donglei Emma Fan is a professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, the Materials Science and Engineering Program, and the Texas Materials Institute at The University of Texas at Austin. She has held the Robert & Jane Mitchell Endowed Faculty Fellowship in Engineering at UT-Austin since 2017 and received two awards from the National Science Foundation (NSF), the NSF Mid-Career Advancement Award (2022) and the NSF CAREER Award (2012). Dr. Fan is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (2021) and an invited Official Nominator of the Japan Prize (2017). She also is the 2022 Johns Hopkins Whiting School of Engineering Ilene Busch-Vishniac Lecturer; the lectureship "features outstanding women in engineering and highlights the intellectual contributions of the lecturers while serving to inspire young women to pursue degrees and careers in engineering". Dr. Fan is an inventor of eight granted patents and a few pending patents. One patent has been licensed to a startup company.