Dr. Anthony Guiseppi-Elie, university distinguished professor, vice president for industry relations and dean of engineering at Anderson University, has been nominated to serve on a subcommittee of the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS) Advisory Committee (MPS AC).
The subcommittee, called “MPS and the Living World,” will assist MPS in developing a long-term strategy and building critical collaborations beyond NSF to tackle the most challenging fundamental science questions with the goal of significantly accelerating the future biotechnology innovations. Guiseppi-Elie will join 17 others under the chairmanship of Provost and Professor Ka Yee Lee of the University of Chicago and the co-chairmanship of Professor Chaitan Khosla from Stanford University and Professor Neal Woodbury from Arizona State University.
Guiseppi-Elie’s research interests are in the areas of electrobiology, bioelectronics, biosensors and in the development of engineered bioanalytical microsystems in the service of human health and medicine. Prior to coming to AU, he was the department head for Biomedical Engineering and Founding Associate Dean of Innovation in Engineering and Medicine at Texas A&M University. He is also founder, president and scientific director of ABTECH Scientific, Inc. and taught for a decade at Clemson University.
“It is an honor and pleasure to join with my colleagues to identify those fundamental physical and mathematical challenges that will enable breakthroughs that will fuel advances in biotechnology for the next decade and beyond” said Guiseppi-Elie.
Guiseppi-Elie studied analytical chemistry and biochemistry at The University of the West Indies, holds a master’s degree in chemical engineering from the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology in the United Kingdom and earned his doctoral degree in materials science and engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He has published more than 200 papers, holds eight U.S. and foreign patents and is a fellow of IEEE, AIMBE, BMES and the RSC.