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Profile
| Academic position | Full Professor |
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| Research fields | Microsystems,Biomedical Systems Technology |
| Keywords | minimally invasive surgery, self-assembly, nanotechnology, smart materials, microtechnology |
| Honours and awards | 2021: Fellow, American Physical Society (APS) 2021: Fellow, Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 2019: Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) 2018: Fellow, Royal Society of Chemistry 2017: Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Award (Humboldt Foundation) 2015: Fellow, American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering, (AIMBE) 2008: National Institutes of Health (NIH, USA) Director’s New Innovator Award 2006: Beckman Young Investigator Award 2006: Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award 2005: National Science Foundation (NSF, USA) Career Award |
Current contact address
| Country | United States of America |
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| City | Baltimore |
| Institution | Johns Hopkins University |
| Institute | Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering |
| Homepage | http://www.jhu.edu/chembe/gracias/ |
Host during sponsorship
| Prof. Dr. Oliver G. Schmidt | Institut für Integrative Nanowissenschaften, Leibniz-Institut für Festkörper- und Werkstoffforschung Dresden (IFW) e.V., Dresden |
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| Prof. Dr. Metin Sitti | Abteilung Physische Intelligenz, Max-Planck-Institut für Intelligente Systeme, Stuttgart |
| Start of initial sponsorship | 01/01/2011 |
Programme(s)
| 2010 | Humboldt Research Fellowship Programme for Experienced Researchers |
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| 2017 | Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award Programme |
Nominator's project description
| Professor Gracias is a leading international scientist and engineer and has made significant contributions to the design, fabrication and characterization of smart materials and miniature devices. He has pioneered the use of chemical and biochemical principles in the development of systems that self-assemble, sense and autonomously actuate based on environmental and physiological cues and self-fold in complex geometries. In Germany Professor Gracias will focus on developing smart shape change and miniaturized robots of relevance to medicine. |
Publications (partial selection)
| 2016 | W. Xi, C. K. Schmidt, S. Sanchez, D. H. Gracias, R. E. Carazo-Salas, R. Butler, N. Lawrence, S. P. Jackson and O. G. Schmidt: Molecular insights into division of single human cancer cells in on-chip transparent microtubes. In: ACS Nano 10, 2016, 5835-5846 |
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| 2016 | J. Rogers, Y. Huang, O.G. Schmidt, D. H. Gracias: Origami MEMS and NEMS. In: MRS Bulletin, 41, 2016, 123-129 |
| 2014 | W. Xi, C. K. Schmidt, S. Sanchez, D. H. Gracias, R. E. Carazo-Salas, S. P. Jackson, O. G. Schmidt: Rolled-up functionalized nanomembranes as 3D cavities for single cell studies. In: Nano Letters, 14, 2014, 4197-4204 |
| 2013 | A.A . Solovev, W. Xi, A. Nagarakodige, D. H. Gracias, S. Sanchez, O. G. Schmidt: Rolled-up magnetic microdrillers: Towards remotely controlled minimally invasive surgery. In: Nanoscale, 5, 2013, 1294-1297 |
| 2012 | A. A. Solovev, W. Xi, D.H. Gracias, S. Harazim, C. Deneke, S. Sanchez, O. G. Schmidt: Self-Propelled Nanotools. In: ACS Nano, 2012, 1751-1756 |