Dorian Liepmann

Job title: 
Professor
Affiliation: 
Bioengineering
Mechanical Engineering
Berkeley Sensor & Actuator Center (BSAC)
Bio/CV: 

Dorian Liepmann is a professor in the Departments of Bioengineering and Mechanical Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley, and a Co-Director of the Berkeley Sensor & Actuator Center.

Professor Liepmann's research interests include BioMEMS, Microfluid dynamics, experimental biofluid dynamics, hemodynamics associated with valvular heart disease, and other cardiac and arterial flows. Prior to joining the faculty at the UC Berkeley, Professor Liepmann had ten years of industrial research experience at the Jet Propulsion Lab and the Institute for Non-Linear Science at the University of California, San Diego. At UC Berkeley, he was Chair of the Department of Bioengineering from 2004 to 2010 and held the Lester John and Lynne Dewar Distinguished Professorship in Bioengineering from 2001 to 2005.

Professor Liepmann received his Ph.D. degree in Applied Mechanics from the University of California, San Diego in 1990.

Research interests: 

BioMEMS, microfluid dynamics, experimental biofluid dynamics, hemodynamics associated with valvular heart disease and other cardiac and arterial flows.

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