Cristina E. Davis is a mechanical engineer at the University of California, Davis. 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 biomarkers and trace chemicals, and micro-electromechanical systems for biochemical applications.[1]
Education and career
editDavis was a double major in mathematics and biology at Duke University, where she graduated in 1994. She completed a Ph.D. in biomedical engineering in 1999 at the University of Virginia.[2]
From 1999 to 2005, Davis was a postdoctoral researcher at Johns Hopkins University, a visiting scientist at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland, a senior scientist at Molecular Devices Corporation in Switzerland, and a researcher, technical staff member, and group leader at the Draper Laboratory in Massachusetts.[2]
She joined the University of California, Davis 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.[2] She chaired the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and held the Warren and Leta Geidt Endowed Professorship from 2019 to 2021,[2][3] was Associate Dean for Research in the College of Engineering from 2021 to 2022,[2][4] and became Associate Vice Chancellor for Interdisciplinary Research and Strategic Initiatives in 2022.[2]
Recognition
editDavis was named to the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering College of Fellows in 2016, "for outstanding contributions to non-invasive chemical and biological sensing tools, algorithms, and applications".[5] In 2019, she was named as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science[6] and of the National Academy of Inventors.[2][7]
References
edit- ^ "Cristina Davis", Directory, UC Davis Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, January 14, 2019, retrieved 2024-09-24
- ^ a b c d e f g "Prof. Cristina Davis", Bioinstrumentation and BioMEMS Laboratory, UC Davis Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, retrieved 2024-09-24
- ^ Pflueger-Peters, Noah A. (July 9, 2019), Cristina Davis named MAE Department Chair, UC Davis Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, retrieved 2024-09-24
- ^ Steere, Rachel (September 29, 2021), Cristina Davis Joins College of Engineering Leadership Team, UC Davis College of Engineering, retrieved 2024-09-24
- ^ "Cristina E. Davis, Ph.D., AIMBE College of Fellows Class of 2016", College of Fellows, AIMBE, retrieved 2024-09-24
- ^ Historic fellows, American Association for the Advancement of Science, retrieved 2024-09-24
- ^ Cristina Davis Appointed Associate Vice Chancellor for Interdisciplinary Research and Strategic Initiatives, UC Davis Office of Research, April 14, 2022, retrieved 2024-09-24
External links
edit- Bioinstrumentation and BioMEMS Laboratory
- Cristina Davis publications indexed by Google Scholar