Juan G. Santiago

Juan G. Santiago is the Charles Lee Powell Foundation Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University. His research includes the development of microsystems for on-chip chemical and biochemical analysis, methods for DNA quantification and hybridization, and electric-field based deionization methods. 

Santiago specializes in micro- and nanoscale transport phenomena and his research includes the development of microsystems for on-chip biochemical analysis, two-phase flow devices, and capacitive deionization methods. Applications of this work include molecular diagnostics, cell analyses, electronics cooling, and the production of drinking water.

He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineering, and a Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering. He serves as Editor-in-Chief of the journal Flow, and has co-founded several companies in microfluidics. He has authored and co-authored over 200 archival publications and is a named inventor on 56 patents, 26 of which are currently licensed. Santiago received PhD in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.