Aurel Stodola Lecture
The Aurel Stodola Lecture Series commemorates the personality and seminal contributions of Download Prof. Aurel Stodola in the early 20th century whose work on applied thermodynamics has guided many engineers and engineering developments worldwide. The Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering (D-MAVT) elected Prof. Jennifer Lewis as the 2023 Laureate of the Aurel Stodola Lecture.
Prof. Jennifer Lewis
School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University
Printing Soft and Living Matter in Three Dimensions
Ideas have long been communicated by printing images and words onto surfaces. Now, it is possible to rapidly transform ideas into designs that can be printed into three-dimensional objects.
In her talk, Jennifer Lewis will describe the fundamental principles that guide the design of printable soft and living materials. She will then introduce new inks and multi-material printheads for direct and embedded printing of architected soft matter with spatially controlled composition and mechanics. Finally, she will highlight recent efforts to create vascularized human tissues through the tight integration of stem cell biology, organoid differentiation, and bioprinting. Though broadly applicable, she will focus mainly on engineering cardiac tissue across multiple scales.
Impressions 2023
Former Awardees
- 2022 Prof. Hod Lipson, Columbia University
- 2021 Prof. Dr. Detlef Lohse, University of Twente
- 2019 Prof. Dr. Ares J. Rosakis, California Institute of Technology
- 2018 Prof. Gang Chen, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- 2017 Prof. Franklin Orr, Stanford University
- 2016 Prof. Rolf. D. Reitz, University of Wisconsin-Madison
- 2015 Prof. Mauro Ferrari, Houston Methodist Hospital
- 2014 Prof. Michael S. Triantafyllou, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- 2013 Prof. Nobuhide Kasagi, University of Tokyo
- 2012 Prof. Mark Davis, California Institute of Technology
- 2011 Prof. Gerhart Eigenberger, University of Stuttgart
- 2010 Prof. Arun Majumdar, US Department of Energy, ARPA-E
- 2009 Prof. George Stephanopoulous, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- 2008 Prof. John H. Seinfeld, California Institute of Technology
- 2007 Prof. Raymond Viskanta, Purdue University
- 2004 Prof. Sheldon K. Friedlander, University of California