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Dr.
Mihail C. Roco

Senior Advisor
for Nanotechnology, National Science Foundation
Dr.
Roco is the founding chair of the National Science and Technology
Council's subcommittee on Nanoscale Science, Engineering and Technology
(NSET), and is the Senior Advisor for Nanotechnology at the National
Science Foundation. He also coordinated the programs on academic
liaison with industry (GOALI). Prior to joining National Science
Foundation, he was Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University
of Kentucky (1981-1995), and held visiting professorships at the
California Institute of Technology (1988-89), Johns Hopkins University
(1993-1995), Tohoku University (1989), and Delft University of Technology
(1997-98).
Dr. Roco is credited with thirteen inventions, contributed
over two hundred articles and sixteen books including "Particulate
Two-phase Flow" (Butterworth, 1993), "Nanostructure Science
and Technology" (1999), “Societal Implications of Nanoscience
and Nanotechnology” (2001 and 2006), and more recently “Managing
Nano-Bio-Info-Cognition Innovations” (2007) and “Mapping
Nanotechnology Knowledge and Innovation: Global and Longitudinal
Patent and Literature Analysis” (2008). Dr. Roco was a researcher
in multiphase systems, visualization techniques, computer simulations,
nanoparticles and nanosystems. He initiated the first Federal Government
program with focused on nanoscale science and engineering (on Synthesis
and Processing of Nanoparticles) at NSF in 1991. He formally proposed
NNI in a presentation at White House/OSTP, Committee on Technology,
on March 11, 1999. He is a key architect of the National Nanotechnology
Initiative, and coordinated the preparation of the U.S. National
Science and Technology Council reports on "Nanotechnology Research
Directions" (NSTC, 1999) and "National Nanotechnology
Initiative" (NSTC, 2000).
Dr. Roco is a Correspondent Member of the Swiss Academy
of Engineering Sciences, a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical
Engineers, a Fellow of the Institute of Physics, and a Fellow of
the American Institute of Chemical Engineers. He has been co-founder
and Chair of the AIChE Particle Technology Forum and of the International
Multiphase Flow Council. He has served as editor for Journal of
Fluids Engineering and Journal of Measurement Science and Technology,
and is Editor-in-chief of the Journal of Nanoparticle Research.
He has been member in the several research boards in Americas, Europe
and Asia including the S&T Council of the International Risk
Governance Council in Geneva.
He was honored as recipient of the Carl Duisberg Award
in Germany, “Burgers Professorship Award” in Netherlands
and the “University Research Professorship” award in
U.S. He was named the “Engineer of the Year” in 1999
and again in 2004 by the U.S. National Society of Professional Engineers
and NSF. In 2002, he received the “Best of Small Tech Awards”
(“Leader of the American nanotech revolution”). Forbes
magazine recognized him in 2003 as the first among “Nanotechnology’s
Power Brokers” and Scientific American named him one of 2004’s
top 50 Technology Leaders. Dr. Roco is the 2005 recipient of the
AIChE Forum Award "for leadership and service to the national
science and engineering community through initiating and bringing
to fruition the National Nanotechnology Initiative". He received
the National Materials Advancement Award from the Federation of
Materials Societies at the National Press Club in 2007 for NNI leadership
and “as the individual most responsible for support and investment
in nanotechnology by government, industry, and academia worldwide”.
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