Roya Maboudian is distinguished professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering at the

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, and co-director of the Berkeley Sensor and Actuator Center. She also holds The John F. Heil, Jr. Chancellor's Chair in Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, and is the Associate Dean of Undergraduate Affairs in the College of Chemistry at UC Berkeley. She has served as editor of the ''IEEE Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems'' and ''ACS Sensors'', and as associate editor of ''IEEE/SPIE Journal on Microfabrication, Microlithography and Microsystems''.

Education and early career

Maboudian obtained her B.S. in electrical engineering from the

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in 1982. She went on to receive her M.S. and Ph.D. in Applied Physics at the

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in 1984 and 1988, respectively, under advisor David L. Goodstein and co-advisor Tom Tombrello. She was a postdoctoral scholar at Penn State and an IBM fellow at UC Santa Barbara before moving to the University of California, Berkeley in 1993. She was one of the first women to earn tenure in the Chemical Engineering Department at Berkeley.

Research

Maboudian's research is in the area of surface and materials science and engineering of micro/nanosystems, towards applications in sensing, health and environmental monitoring, energy technologies and sustainability. Her research has addressed several technological barriers in microsystems technologies. Her early Berkeley research involved pioneering fundamental studies of surface and interfacial phenomena in microelectromechanical systems. These studies paved the way for the development of surface modifications to combat the problem of stiction, considered a key bottleneck in MEMS commercialization. Since then, her work has broadened to other aspects of materials and surfaces, including silicon carbide-based harsh environment sensing, chemical sensing , gecko-inspired adhesives, supercapacitor energy storage devices and green construction.

Awards and honors

IEEE Fellow , the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) is an American 501(c)(3) public charity professional organization for electrical engineering, electronics engineering, and ot ...

, 2021 * Bakar Fellow, 2019 * Fellow of the American Vacuum Society, 2014 *

Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers The Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) is the highest honor bestowed by the United States federal government on outstanding scientists and engineers in the early stages of their independent research careers. T ...

, 1998 * Arnold and Mabel Beckman Young Investigator Award, 1996 * Hellman Family Award, 1996 * National Science Foundation Young Investigator Award, 1994

References

External links

Maboudian Lab webpage
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Maboudian, Roya Year of birth missing (living people) Living people UC Berkeley College of Chemistry faculty California Institute of Technology alumni American women chemical engineers American chemical engineers Fellows of the IEEE Recipients of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers