- Graduate Field Affiliations
- Aerospace Engineering
- Applied Physics
- Biomedical Engineering
- Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Mechanical Engineering
Biography
David Erickson is the SC Thomas Sze Director and Sibley College Professor in the Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Cornell University. He is also a joint Professor within the Division of Nutritional Sciences and was previously the Associate Dean of Engineering for Research and Graduate Programs. Prof. Erickson is the director of the NIH POCTRN Center “PORTENT – Center for Point of Care Technologies for Nutrition, Infection, and Cancer in Global Health.” His research focuses on: global health technology, medical diagnostics, microfluidics, photonics, and nanotechnology. Prior to joining the faculty, he was a postdoctoral scholar at the California Institute of Technology and he received his Ph.D. degree from the University of Toronto. Research in the Erickson lab is or has been primarily funded through grants from the NIH, NSF, ARPA-E, ONR, DoD, DOE, DARPA, USAID, USDA, Nutrition International, Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition, and other foundations.
Prof. Erickson has helped to found numerous start-up companies commercializing: high-throughput pharmaceutical instrumentation, biomedical diagnostics, and energy technologies including Halo Labs, VitaScan and Dimensional Energy.
Prof. Erickson has received the DARPA-MTO Young Faculty Award, the NSF CAREER Award, the Department of Energy Early Career Award, among others. In 2011 he was awarded the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientist and Engineers (PECASE) by President Obama. Erickson has been named a fellow of the Optical Society of America, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering, and the Canadian Academy of Engineering.
Research Interests
- Computational Fluid Dynamics
- Fluid Dynamics and Rheology
- Energy Systems
- Energy and the Environment
- Microfluidics and Microsystems
- Nanobio Applications
- Nanotechnology
- Biomedical Engineering
- Bioengineering
- Biomedical Imaging and Instrumentation
- Microfluidics
- Thermal Systems
- Molecular and Cellular Engineering
- Biophysics
- Micro Nano Systems
- Bioengineering and Healthcare
Select Publications
Select Awards and Honors
- Fellow, American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering 2022
- Fellow, Canadian Academy of Engineering 2021
- Carbon X-Prize Finalist for Dimensional Energy 2019
- Defense Sciences Study Group 2016-2017
- Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, ASME 2014
- Prism Award Finalist, for Optofluidics’s Molecular NanoTweezer, Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE) 2014
- Pittcon Silver New Product Award, for Optofluidics’s Molecular NanoTweezer 2013
- Corporate Innovator Award, for Optofluidic’s Inc., Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 2013
- Fellow, Optical Society of America 2012
- Philadelphia Life Sciences Start-up of the Year, Greater Philadelphia Alliance for Capital and Technologies 2012
- Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) 2011
- Department of Energy Early Career Award 2010
- National Science Foundation CAREER Award 2009
- 4th U.S. – Japan NSF Young Researchers Exchange Program 2007
- DARPA-MTO Young Faculty Award 2007
- Robert ’55 and Vanne ’57 Cowie Excellence in Teaching Award 2007
Education
- B.Sc., Mechanical Engineering, University of Alberta 1999
- M.A.Sc., Mechanical Engineering, University of Toronto 2001
- Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, University of Toronto 2004
- Post-Doc, Electrical Engineering, California Institute of Technology 2005
