Prof. Dr. Arum Han

Arum Han received his Ph.D. from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA in 2005. He is currently the Texas Instruments Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. the Chancellor’s EDGES Fellow, and the Presidential Impact Fellow there. He also holds joint appointments in the Department of Biomedical Engineering and the Department of Chemical Engineering, is a Graduate Faculty of the Texas A&M Health Science Center, Faculty of the Texas A&M Institute for Neuroscience, and Faculty of Toxicology. His research focuses on the development of microfluidic, lab-on-a-chip, and organ-on-a-chip systems that enable unique biological experiments at high throughput and high accuracy that can then be readily adopted by the broad bio/medical science community and applied to complex multi-step biological assays. He has also pioneered the area of organ-on-a-chip systems for feto-maternal interface and preterm birth research and is applying these microphysiological system models for therapeutic development and environmental toxicant testing. He has authored more than 150 peer-reviewed publications and has been leading numerous multi-disciplinary projects. He is also the director of the AggieFab Nanofabrication Facility, a campus-wide core user facility that went through extensive expansion under his leadership. He currently serves as the Editor-in-Chief for the journal Biomedical Microdevices.