Joerg Lahann

Dr. Joerg Lahann is a Professor of Chemical Engineering, Materials Science and Engineering and Biomedical Engineering at the University of Michigan (UM). He also serves as the Director of the UM Biointerfaces Institute and as the co-Director of the Institute for Functional Interfaces at the Karlrsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany. Joerg is a co-inventor of GreenMark’s dental technology. He is a co-author of more than 190 papers and has contributed to more than 30 patents and patent applications. He has been selected by Technology Review as one of the top 100 young scientists and is the recipient of the 2007 Nanoscale Science and Engineering Award, an NSF-CAREER award, and both a single-PI and a team Idea award (2006 & 2011) from the US Department of Defense. He serves on the board of Seventh Sense, a health technology company. Joerg received a Ph.D. from the RWTH Aachen in Germany and completed postdoctoral training in the research group of Prof. Robert S. Langer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He joined the University of Michigan in 2003.