Steven Santana Research Group

Steven Santana ’06(engineering/Spanish) assistant professor, joins the faculty after his 2018–2019 visiting position at HMC. He earned his master’s in education from Loyola Marymount University and his doctoral degree in mechanical engineering from Cornell University. As a doctoral researcher, he examined the use of microfluidics to isolate and study cancer biomarkers and design microfluidic devices for this purpose. At Harvey Mudd, Santana designed and taught a new course on microfluidics and nanofluidics and has established a microfluidics research program.