Tianhong Cui Elected to European Academy of Sciences and Arts

ME Professor Tianhong Cui has been named a 2023 member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts (EASA), a non-governmental, European association committed to promoting scientific and societal progress. EASA members include 38 Nobel Prize Laureates and are leading scientists, artists, and practitioners of governance, dedicated to innovative research, interdisciplinary and transnational collaboration as well as the exchange and dissemination of knowledge. 

Cui was elected as a 2023 EASA member in Class VI – Technical and Environmental Sciences. This election is to acknowledge his great contributions to the study of micro electro mechanical systems (MEMS) for healthcare and clean water, his pioneering work on advanced manufacturing including shrink nanomanufacturing and self-assembly of MEMS, and his long-term collaboration with academic institutions in the United Kingdom, France, and Germany.

Cui leads the Technology Integration & Advanced Nano/Microsystems Lab (TIAN Lab). He is a fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineering (ASME), an adjunct professor of biomedical engineering at Mayo Clinic, and a visiting fellow at the University of Cambridge. He was a distinguished visiting fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering in the UK, a laureate of Blaise Pascal Chair for Excellence in France, and a Humboldt fellow in Germany. He currently serves as the founding executive editor-in-chief for a Nature journal, Microsystems & Nanoengineering.