Jennifer Lewis

Jennifer A. Lewis (born 1965) is an American materials scientist and engineer, best known for her work on the directed assembly of soft materials and the 3D printing of functional materials including electronics.

Education and early career

Lewis graduated from the University of Illinois with honors in ceramic engineering in 1986 and earned an Sc.D. in ceramic science from MIT in 1991 under the direction of Michael J. Cima. From 1991 to 1997 she was an assistant professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, and was also affiliated with the Beckman Institute

Recent career

Promoted to associate professor in 1997 and to professor in 2003, Lewis became in 2007 director of UIUC's Frederick Seitz Materials Research Laboratory. In 2013 she moved to Harvard University as Wyss Professor of Biologically Inspired Engineering in Harvard's School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.

Research

Lewis' laboratory works on the directed assembly of soft functional materials. This work involves microfluidics, materials synthesis, complex fluids, and robotic assembly to design functional materials. She develops novel materials that can find potential application as printed electronics, waveguides, and 3D scaffolds and microvascular architectures for cell culture and tissue engineering. Lewis is the author of more than 120 papers and holds 8 patents. She is a founder of Voxel8, a company that manufactures a 3D printing platform capable of printing new functional materials, whose investors include In-Q-Tel.

Jennifer Lewis (disambiguation)

Jennifer Lewis, Jenifer Lewis, or Jenny Lewis may refer to:

Lewis (lifting appliance)

A lewis (sometimes called a lewisson) is one of a category of lifting devices used by stonemasons to lift large stones into place with a crane, chain block, or winch. It is inserted into a specially prepared hole, or seating, in the top of a stone, directly above its centre of mass. It works by applying principles of the lever and utilises the weight of the stone to act on the long lever-arms which in turn results in a very high reaction force and friction where the short lever-arms make contact with the stone inside the hole and thereby prevents slipping.

Etymology

The name lewis may come from the Latin levo -avi, -atum meaning to levitate or lift, but the Oxford English Dictionary Online states, "the formation and the phonology are not easily explained on this hypothesis", preferring "origin obscure", and speculating that the term may derive from a personal name. The Romans used the lewis. The specially shaped hole that is shaped to fit the device is known as a lewis hole. Lewis holes in the uppermost masonry coursings are neatly repaired with matching indented plugs after the stone has been set in place.

Lewis (robot)

Lewis (named after Meriwether Lewis) is an autonomous robot that performs the job of a wedding photographer: it attends social events, moves around, and takes digital photographs of people. It is a research project of the Media and Machines Laboratory at Washington University.

Lewis has been featured on slashdot, on CNN's website, and in various North American newspapers.

In 2002, Lewis received -- and declined -- an invitation to Nelly's 24th birthday party.

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Lewis (Middlesex cricketer)

Lewis (first name and dates unknown) was an English cricketer who was associated with Middlesex and made his first-class debut in 1830.

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