Professor
Johns Hopkins University
David Gracias is a Professor at the Johns Hopkins University with a primary appointment in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering in the Whiting School of Engineering and secondary appointments in the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences and the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. Prof. Gracias received his PhD from UC Berkeley and did post-doctoral research at Harvard University prior to starting his independent laboratory. He has made pioneering contributions to micro and nanotechnology as described in over 200 technical publications, including several in high impact journals such as Science. He is also a prolific inventor and holds 36 issued US patents, with notable inventions on microchip integration, self-folding polyhedra, integrated biosensors, programmable soft-robots and untethered microgrippers. He has been recognized by several national and international awards (including the NSF Career, NIH Director’s New Innovator, Beckman Young Investigator, Camille Dreyfus Teacher Scholar and Bessel Award) and elected as a Fellow of diverse international scientific and engineering societies, including AAAS, IEEE, APS, RSC, and AIMBE.