|
Dr. Michael J. Cima is a Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at MIT. He earned a B.S. in chemistry in 1982 (phi beta kappa) and a Ph.D. in chemical engineering in 1986, both from the University of California at Berkeley. He received the Norton chair at MIT in 1988 in the Materials Science and Engineering Department as an Assistant Professor. Prof. Cima became Director of the Ceramics Processing Research Laboratory in 1989 and received a tenured appointment from MIT in 1992. He was promoted to full Professor in 1995. He was elected a Fellow of the American Ceramics Society in 1997 and has recently been awarded the Sumitomo Electric Industries Chair at MIT. Prof. Cima is author or co-author of over one hundred and eighty scientific publications, twenty-seven patents, and is a recognized expert in the field of materials processing. He has been the principle investigator on several multimillion-dollar Defense research projects and many other sponsored research programs at MIT. Prof. Cima's recent research is primarily in four areas: advanced forming technology, ceramic thin film processing, MEMS devices for medical electronics and drug delivery, high-throughput development methods for formulations of materials. Forming methods for complex macro and micro devices are of particular interest including MIT's three-dimensional printing process. His research group is one of the leaders in the development of chemically derived epitaxial oxide films for HTSC coated conductors. They are also leaders in the field of particle-particle and particle-surface interactions. He and collaborators are developing implantable MEMS devices for unprecedented control in the delivery of pharmaceuticals. Most recently, his group has been working on methods to speed the development of materials systems that are based on complex formulations. Finally, through his consulting work he has been a major contributor to the development of a high throughput system for discovery of novel crystal forms of pharmaceuticals. | 