Todd M. Squires, PhD, earned dual BS/BA degrees in physics and Russian literature at the Univ. of California, Los Angeles, then spent a year as a Churchill Scholar at Cambridge Univ. He earned his PhD in physics from Harvard Univ. in 2005, spent three years as a Postdoctoral Fellow at Caltech, and joined the Univ. of California, Santa Barbara’s chemical engineering department in 2005. His research group studies small-scale fluid mechanics and soft materials, both experimentally and theoretically, focusing on microfluidic systems, surfactant function and dysfunction in the lungs and in...Read more