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Jennifer A. Lewis

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Jennifer A. Lewis
Photograph of materials scientist Jennifer A. Lewis taken in 2017
Lewis in 2017
Born
Jennifer Ann Lewis

1964
NationalityAmerican
Education
Known for
  • 3D printing
  • Directed assembly of soft functional materials
Awards
  • National Academy of Sciences member
  • National Academy of Engineering member
  • American Academy of Arts and Sciences member
  • NSF Presidential Faculty Fellow Award
Scientific career
Institutions
Thesis (1991)
Doctoral advisorMichael J. Cima

Jennifer A. Lewis (born 1964)[1] is an American materials scientist and engineer, best known for her research on colloidal assembly of ceramics and 3D printing of functional, structural, and biological materials.[2]

In 2017, Lewis was elected as a member of the National Academy of Engineering for the development of materials and processes for 3-dimensional direct fabrication of multifunctional structures.

Education and early career

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Lewis graduated with a B.S. degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with high honors in ceramic engineering in 1986 and earned a Sc.D. in ceramic science from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1991 under the direction of Michael J. Cima. The title of her dissertation is Binder Distribution Processes in Ceramic Green Tapes During Thermolysis.[1] From 1990 to 1997 she was an assistant professor at the University of Illinois, and was also affiliated as a research professor with the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology.[2][3]

Later career

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Lewis was promoted to associate professor in 1997 and to professor in 2003. In 2002, she co-edited the book Polymers in Particulate Systems: Properties and Applications to which she also contributed a chapter titled "Colloid-filled Polymer Gels: a Novel Approach to Ceramics Fabrication".[4] In 2006 Lewis was named interim director and subsequently became director of UIUC's Frederick Seitz Materials Research Laboratory in 2007.[3][5]

In 2013 she moved to Harvard University as Hansjörg Wyss Professor of Biologically Inspired Engineering in Harvard's School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.[2]

Research

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Lewis's laboratory works on the directed assembly of soft functional materials. This work involves microfluidics, materials synthesis, complex fluids, and robotic assembly to design functional materials. She develops novel materials that can find potential application as printed electronics, waveguides, and 3D scaffolds and microvascular architectures for cell culture and tissue engineering.[2] She co-leads the Wyss Institute's 3D Organ Engineering Initiative.[6]

In 2013, Lewis' team released the world's first 3D printed battery, made from two different electrode inks.[7]

As of early 2017, Lewis is the author of more than 160 papers and holds 11 patents, including patents for inventions as varied as methods to 3D print functional human tissue[8] and microbattery cells.[9]

She is a founder of Voxel8,[10] a company that manufactures a 3D printing platform capable of printing new functional materials, whose investors include In-Q-Tel[11] and Braemar Energy Ventures.[12] Voxel8 has created the world's first multi-material 3D electronics printer. In January 2015, Lewis told Business Wire: "Voxel8 is leveraging over a decade of research, which has led to 17 patents (10 issued) on functional materials, printheads, and other processes for 3D printing, from my lab.… Our work provides the foundation for Voxel8’s effort to revolutionize multi-material 3D printing."[12]

Lewis is also a co-founder of Electroninks, Inc., a company that produces a reactive silver ink used in the printed electronics market, as well as in biomedical and electronic circuitry markets.[13] The company launched a Kickstarter campaign on November 20, 2013, with the goal of raising $85,000 to help with the production of a pen called Circuit Scribe that can create electronic circuits. After only fifteen days into the campaign, backers had pledged $451,698 towards the product.[14] When the Kickstarter campaign closed on December 31, 2013, a total of $674,425 was raised for Circuit Scribe by 12,277 backers.[15]

Her publications have been cited more than 48,000 times by other scholars.[16]

Awards and honors

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Lewis is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (elected 2012),[17] the National Academy of Engineering (elected 2017),[18] and the National Academy of Sciences (elected 2018).[19] She is also a Fellow of the American Ceramic Society, the American Physical Society, the Materials Research Society, and the National Academy of Inventors.[20]

She has received the National Science Foundation Presidential Faculty Fellow Award (1994), the Schlumberger Foundation Award (1995), the Brunauer Award and Robert B. Sossman Award from the American Ceramic Society (2003; 2016), the Materials Research Society Medal (2012), and the Langmuir Lecture award from the American Chemical Society (2009).[3]

In 2014, she was named by Foreign Policy magazine as one of the year's "100 Leading Global Thinkers".[21]

In 2017, Lewis was awarded the Lush Science Prize for her team's work on developing a multi-material bioprinting platform for fabricating 3D human organ-on-chip models, which could eliminate the use of animal testing by the pharmaceutical and cosmetic industries.[22]

In 2018, Lewis was named as the Jianming Yu Professor of Arts and Sciences by the Harvard Stem Cell Institute, in recognition of her "excellence in research, leadership, teaching".[23] The five-year chair will support Lewis and her team's research to advance progress in stem cell and regenerative medicine.

In 2019, Lewis was awarded an honorary Doctorate of Science by the University of Edinburgh.[24]

In September 2020, Lewis was honored with one of three Genius Awards presented by the Liberty Science Center at their annual Genius Gala.[25]

Lewis was the 2020–2021 Distinguished Lecturer for the Hagler Institute for Advanced Study at Texas A&M University.[26]

References

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  1. ^ a b Lewis, Jennifer Ann (1991). Binder Distribution Processes in Ceramic Green Tapes During Thermolysis (Sc.D.). Massachusetts Institute of Technology. hdl:1721.1/13701. Retrieved January 3, 2020.
  2. ^ a b c d "Jennifer A. Lewis". Harvard University, John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. Retrieved March 10, 2017.
  3. ^ a b c "Jennifer A. Lewis, Curriculum Vitae (updated September, 2011)" (PDF). University of Illinois Department of Materials Science and Engineering. September 6, 2011. Archived from the original (PDF) on May 29, 2015. Retrieved March 10, 2017.
  4. ^ Hackley, Vincent A.; Somasundaran, P; Lewis, Jennifer A., eds. (2002). Polymers in Particulate Systems : Properties and Applications. Surfactant Science Series. Vol. 104. New York: Marcel Dekker. ISBN 9780824706784. OCLC 48383538.
  5. ^ "Talk focuses on nature's engineering". The Daily Camera. Boulder, CO. July 12, 2006. p. News section, A03.
  6. ^ "Jennifer Lewis". University of Colorado Boulder, BioFrontiers Institute. n.d. Retrieved November 1, 2020.
  7. ^ Orcutt, Mike (September–October 2013). "A Hint of 3-D Printing's Promise". MIT Technology Review. 116 (5): 24.
  8. ^ "WIPO Publishes Patent of President and Fellows of Harvard College for "Methods of Generating Functional Human Tissue" (American Inventors)". US Fed News Service. September 11, 2016. Archived from the original on March 13, 2017. Retrieved March 11, 2017.
  9. ^ "WIPO Publishes Patent of President and Fellows of Harvard College for "Method of Making an Electrode Structure and a Microbattery Cell" (American Inventors)". US Fed News Service. September 18, 2016. Archived from the original on March 13, 2017. Retrieved March 11, 2017.
  10. ^ Hettlinger, Johnathan (October 9, 2015). "Professors offer glimpse of the future". News-Gazette. Champaign, IL. Retrieved March 10, 2017.
  11. ^ Molitch-Hou, Michael (March 5, 2015). "Voxel8 Electronics 3D Printer Receives Investment from US Intelligence Community". 3D Printing Industry. Archived from the original on March 8, 2015. Retrieved March 3, 2017.
  12. ^ a b Oliver, Daniel (January 5, 2015). "Voxel8 Launches World's First 3D Electronics Printer at CES; Partners with Autodesk". www.businesswire.com. Business Wire. Retrieved March 11, 2017.
  13. ^ Dodson, Don (April 14, 2013). "UI researcher starting silver-inks firm in C-U". News-Gazette. Champaign, IL. Retrieved March 11, 2017.
  14. ^ Dodson, Don (December 8, 2013). "Ink-credible response for electronic-circuit pen". News-Gazette. Champaign, IL. Retrieved March 11, 2017.
  15. ^ "Circuit Scribe: Draw Circuits Instantly". www.kickstarter.com. Retrieved March 11, 2017.
  16. ^ "Jennifer A. Lewis". Google Scholar. 2022. Retrieved September 28, 2022.
  17. ^ "Book of Members" (PDF). American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Retrieved May 14, 2018.
  18. ^ "National Academy of Engineering Elects 84 Members and 22 Foreign Members". National Academy of Engineering. February 8, 2017. Retrieved March 11, 2017.
  19. ^ "National Academy of Sciences Members and Foreign Associates Elected". National Academy of Sciences. May 1, 2018. Retrieved May 14, 2018.
  20. ^ "Two of Harvard's Wyss Institute core faculty members elected as Fellows of the National Academy of Inventors". Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering. December 15, 2015. Retrieved November 1, 2020.
  21. ^ "The Innovators". Foreign Policy (209): 73–77. November–December 2014.
  22. ^ "Science Prize: Previous winners". lushprize.org. 2018. Retrieved November 1, 2020.
  23. ^ "Jennifer Lewis recognized for research and teaching excellence". Harvard Stem Cell Institute. April 11, 2008. Retrieved November 1, 2020.
  24. ^ "Honorary Graduates in 2019". www.ed.ac.uk. The University of Edinburgh. January 18, 2019. Retrieved July 3, 2019.
  25. ^ Bergeron, Tom (September 21, 2020). "Tonight's virtual Genius Gala will feature 4 'COVID Challengers' as well as 3 Genius Award nominees". ROI-NJ. Retrieved November 2, 2020.
  26. ^ "Texas A&M Hagler Institute Announces 2020-21 Hagler Fellows, Distinguished Lecturer". Texas A&M Today. College Station, Texas. October 7, 2020. Retrieved November 1, 2020.
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