Patrick Doyle is the Robert T. Haslam (1911) Professor and Graduate Officer of the Department of Chemical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He received his undergraduate and graduate degrees in Chemical Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania (1992) and at Stanford University (MS 1993, PhD 1997).
Doyle is a leader in the field of microfluidics. He has shown how fluid flow at the microscale can be used to design new processes to synthesize and study soft matter. His unique approach combines both modeling and experimental expertise to study problems in microfluidics, DNA polymer physics and microparticle engineering. His seminal work in microfluidic approaches to particle synthesis is transforming the field by enabling the large-scale generation of particles with hitherto unimaginable functionality.
Doyle’s honors include NSF’s CAREER Award (2003), Pioneers of Miniaturization Prize by the Royal Society of Chemistry (2008), a Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship (2009), and the 2022 Alpha Chi Sigma Award from AIChE. Doyle has been recognized for excellence in teaching with the C. Michael Mohr Outstanding Faculty Award for Undergraduate Teaching in the Department of Chemical Engineering (2013, 2014).
Doyle is a co-founder of Firefly Bioworks and Motif Micro.