Clarence J. LeBel Professor and EE Faculty Head, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, MIT
Joel Voldman is Clarence J. LeBel Professor and EE Faculty Head in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department at MIT. He received the BS degree in electrical engineering from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, in 1995. He received the MS and PhD degree in electrical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, in 1997 and 2001, developing bioMEMS for single-cell analysis. Following this, he was a postdoctoral associate at Harvard Medical School. In 2002 he returned to MIT as an Assistant Professor in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science department at MIT. Prof. Voldman’s research focuses on developing microfluidic technology for biology and medicine, with an emphasis on cell sorting, manipulation, and culture. In 2006 he was promoted to Associate Professor, and in 2013 promoted to Professor in the department. In 2018 he became Associate Head of the Department and in 2020 became Faculty Head for Electrical Engineering and was named to the Clarence J. Lebel chair. Among several awards, he has received an NSF CAREER award, an ACS Young Innovator Award, a Bose Research award, Jamieson Teaching Award, Smullin Teaching Award, Quick Faculty Research Innovation Fellowship, AIMBE Fellow, IEEE Fellow, RSC Fellow, and awards for posters and presentations at international conferences.