Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON (2004) Post-Doc, Electrical Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA (2005) Robert ’55 and Vanne ’57 Cowie Excellence in Teaching Award (2007) Education – Japan NSF Young Researchers Exchange Program (2007) National Science Foundation CAREER Award (2009)Ĥth U.S. Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, PECASE (2011)ĭepartment of Energy Early Career Award (2010) Philadelphia Life Sciences Start-up of the Year, Greater Philadelphia Alliance for Capital and Technologies (2012) Pittcon Silver New Product Award, for Optofluidics’s Molecular NanoTweezer (2013)Ĭorporate Innovator Award, for Optofluidic’s Inc., IEEE (2013)įellow of the Optical Society of America, OSA (2012) Prism Award Finalist, for Optofluidics’s Molecular NanoTweezer, SPIE (2014) Research Interestsįellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, ASME (2014) For his efforts in co-founding the field of optofluidics, Erickson has been named a fellow of the Optical Society of America and the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.

In 2011 he was awarded the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientist and Engineers (PECASE) by President Obama. Erickson has received the DARPA-MTO Young Faculty Award, the NSF CAREER Award, the Department of Energy Early Career Award, among others.

Erickson has helped to found numerous start-up companies commercializing: high-throughput pharmaceutical instrumentation, biomedical diagnostics, and energy technologies including Halo Labs, VitaScan and Dimensional Energy. Research in the Erickson lab is or has been primarily funded through grants from the NIH, NSF, ARPA-E, ONR, DOE, DARPA, USAID, Nutrition International, and Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN). Prior to joining the faculty, he was a postdoctoral scholar at the California Institute of Technology and he received his Ph.D. His research focuses on: mobile and global health technology, medical diagnostics, microfluidics, photonics, and nanotechnology. He is also a joint Professor within the Division of Nutritional Sciences. David Erickson is the SC Thomas Sze Director and Sibley College Professor in the Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Cornell University.

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