Dr. Mark Shannon

Advisor

Dr. Shannon is the Director of the U.S. National Science Foundation Science and Technology Center for Advanced Materials for the Purification of Water with Systems (WaterCAMPWS), a multiple university and government laboratory center for advancing the science and engineering of materials and systems for revolutionary improvements in water purification for human use.   He is currently an advisor to the Organisation of Economic Cooperative Development (OECD) in Paris for their Working Party on Nanotechnology for Water, and is Chair of the External Advisory Board of the Center on Integrated Nanotechnology Science (COINS), a partnership between the University of California at Berkeley, Stanford University and CalTech University.  He is also Director of the Micro Nano Mechanical Systems (MNMS) Laboratory at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, a research and education program devoted to the design and fabrication of micro- and nanoelectromechanical systems (MEMS & NEMS), micro-scale fuel cells and gas sensors, and micro-nanofluidic sensors for water and biological fluids. 

Dr. Shannon is the founder of the US Strategic Water Initiative, frequent reviewer and panelist for the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Department of Energy (DOE), National Science Foundation, and the Department of Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA).  He has served as a reviewer for dozens of scientific and engineering journals from Nature, Nature Nanotechnology, Science, Journal of Physical Chemistry, Physical Review, Journal of Applied Physics, Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems, Langmuir, Lab-on-a-chip, and Nanoletters.   He is an author of more than 200 peer-reviewed publications in top journals and conferences.

Dr. Shannon received the NSF Career Award in 1997 to advance microfabrication technologies, the Xerox Award for Excellence in Research (2004), the Kritzer Scholar (2003-2006), the Willet Faculty Scholar (2004-2007), and received the BP Innovation in Education Award in 2006.  He is a co-founder of Cbana Laboratories, Inc. a start-up company developing micro-nanofluidic sensors and micro-gas analyzers.

He is the James W. Bayne Professor of Mechanical Engineering at UIUC, and received his B.S. (1989) M.S. (1991) and Ph.D. (1993) degrees in Mechanical Engineering from the University of California at Berkeley.