Michael Strano

Michael Steven Strano is an American chemical engineer and the Carbon P. Dubbs Professor of Chemical Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). In 2017, Strano was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering "for contributions to nanotechnology, including fluorescent sensors for human health and solar and thermal energy devices."

Education Strano was born around 1976. He graduated with a BS degree (summa cum laude) in chemical engineering from the Polytechnic University, Brooklyn in 1997. He gained his PhD (summa cum laude) in chemical engineering from the University of Delaware in 2002, under the direction of Hank Foley.

Career Strano held a postdoctoral research fellowship in Chemistry and Physics at Rice University, where he worked with Richard E. Smalley. In 2003, he became an Assistant Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. and later the Carbon P. Dubbs Professor of Chemical Engineering.

Research Strano has done extensive work with carbon nanotubes and holds a number of patents in this area.

quote|"Plants are very attractive as a technology platform... They repair themselves, they're environmentally stable outside, they survive in harsh environments, and they provide their own power source and water distribution." – Michael Strano, 2014

Strano is a co-editor with Shawn M. Walsh, of Robotic systems and autonomous platforms: advances in materials and manufacturing (2019).

Honors and awards 2016, World's Most Influential Scientific Minds of 2015, Thomson Reuters 2016, Highly Cited Materials Science Researchers, Thomson Reuters 2009, ''Popular Science'''s 'Brilliant 10' 2008, Colburn Award, American Institute of Chemical Engineers 2008, Young Investigator Award, Office of Naval Research 2008, Outstanding Investigator Award, Materials Research Society 2007, Unilever Award, American Chemical Society 2006, Beckman Young Investigators Award 2006, Coblentz Award for Molecular Spectroscopy 2005, Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Research Fellowship