Michael Schrlau is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT). He earned his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science from the University of Pittsburgh. From 1998 to 2004, he worked for Kimberly-Clark Corp in roles ranging from R&D engineering to operations management. In 2009, he earned his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics at the University of Pennsylvania for his research on carbon-based biological nanoprobes. After completing a postdoctoral fellowship in the Department of Pharmacology at Temple University, he joined the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Drexel University as a Research Assistant Professor, where he led the research activities of the W. M. Keck Institute. During the same time, he was also an adjunct lecturer at the University of Pennsylvania in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering. He is interested in several aspects critical to the interface of nanotechnology and biology, including nanomanufacturing, nanomanipulation, technology-biology interactions, and biomedical applications, and investigates micro/nanoscale fluid behavior and develops related micro/nanotechnologies for biological metrology.