Andrew Steckl is Ohio Eminent Scholar, Gieringer Professor and Distinguished University Research Professor at the University of Cincinnati in the Departments of Electrical and Computer Engineering and also affiliated with the Materials Science and Engineering Program and the Biomedical Engineering Department. Dr. Steckl obtained his BS degree from Princeton University and his MS and PhD degrees from University of Rochester. He is a Life Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineering (IEEE), Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors, and Fellow of American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) “For Distinguished Contributions to Optoelectronics”. In 2022, he was recognized by the Electrochemical Society with the Electronics & Photonics Lifetime Award.
After several years in industrial R&D, Dr. Steckl joined Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1976 as a faculty member in the Electrical & Computer Engineering Department, where he founded the Center for Integrated Electronics, a multi-disciplinary campus-wide activity. At the University of Cincinnati since 1988, Dr. Steckl’s current research activities are in: (1) biosensors for point-of-care diagnostics; (2) electrospinning of complex nanofibers and related membrane chem/bio/med applications. To date, Prof. Steckl has graduated more than 50 Ph. D. students and has supervised 13 post-doctoral fellows. Together with his students, he has published ~ 460 papers, which have received more than 18,000 citations to date with a current citation h-index of 73. Prof. Steckl has also obtained 30 patents on various electronic materials and devices. Additional information at: www.nanolab.uc.edu
