Cristina E. Davis is a mechanical engineer at the

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. She is a professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, where she heads the Bioinstrumentation and BioMEMS Laboratory, and the university's Associate Vice Chancellor of Interdisciplinary Research and Strategic Initiatives. Her research interests include sensors for

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s and trace chemicals, and

micro-electromechanical systems MEMS (micro-electromechanical systems) is the technology of microscopic devices incorporating both electronic and moving parts. MEMS are made up of components between 1 and 100 micrometres in size (i.e., 0.001 to 0.1 mm), and MEMS devices ...

for biochemical applications.

Education and career

Davis was a double major in mathematics and biology at

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, where she graduated in 1994. She completed a Ph.D. in biomedical engineering in 1999 at the

University of Virginia The University of Virginia (UVA) is a Public university#United States, public research university in Charlottesville, Virginia, United States. It was founded in 1819 by Thomas Jefferson and contains his The Lawn, Academical Village, a World H ...

. From 1999 to 2005, Davis was a postdoctoral researcher at

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, a visiting scientist at the

École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne The École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (, EPFL) is a public university, public research university in Lausanne, Switzerland, founded in 1969 with the mission to "train talented engineers in Switzerland". Like its sister institution E ...

in Switzerland, a senior scientist at Molecular Devices Corporation in Switzerland, and a researcher, technical staff member, and group leader at the

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in Massachusetts. She joined the

as an assistant professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in 2005. She was promoted to associate professor in 2010 and full professor in 2012. She chaired the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and held the Warren and Leta Geidt Endowed Professorship from 2019 to 2021, was Associate Dean for Research in the College of Engineering from 2021 to 2022, and became Associate Vice Chancellor for Interdisciplinary Research and Strategic Initiatives in 2022.

Recognition

Davis was named to the

American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering The American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) is a non-profit organization founded in 1991, and headquartered in Washington, D.C. It represents 50,000 medical and Biomedical engineering, biomedical engineers, and academic i ...

College of Fellows in 2016, "for outstanding contributions to non-invasive chemical and biological sensing tools, algorithms, and applications". In 2019, she was named as a Fellow of the

American Association for the Advancement of Science The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) is a United States–based international nonprofit with the stated mission of promoting cooperation among scientists, defending scientific freedom, encouraging scientific responsib ...

and of the

National Academy of Inventors The National Academy of Inventors (NAI) is a US non-profit organization dedicated to encouraging inventors in academia, following the model of the National Academies of the United States. It was founded at the University of South Florida in 201 ...

References

External links

Bioinstrumentation and BioMEMS Laboratory
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Davis, Cristina Year of birth missing (living people) Living people American biomedical engineers American mechanical engineers American women engineers Women mechanical engineers Duke University alumni University of Virginia alumni University of California, Davis faculty Fellows of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science