Professor Winston Wole Soboyejo
Professional Preparation
1985 B.Sc. (Hons.) in Mechanical Engineering
King’s College, London University
1985 A.K.C. Associateship of King’s College in
Ethics and Philosophy
1988 Ph.D. in Materials Science and Metallurgy
Cambridge University
Employment
1988-1992 Research Scientist, McDonnell Douglas Research Labs
1992-1992 Principal Research Engineer, Edison Welding Institute
1992-1996 Assistant Professor, Department of Materials Science and
Engineering, The Ohio State University
1996-1999 Associate Professor, Department of Materials Science and
Engineering, The Ohio State University
1997-1998 Visiting Associate Professor, Department of Materials Science and
Engineering, and Department of Mechanical Engineering, MIT
1999-present Professor, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
And The Princeton Institute of Science and Technology of
Materials, Princeton University
Awards and Honors
1986 Engineering Faculty Prize, King’s College London
1988 First Leathes Prize, King’s College London
1993 Research Initiation Award, National Science Foundation
1994 National Young Investigator Award, National Science Foundation
1994 Young Investigator Award, Office of Naval Research
1996 Lumley Research Award, The Ohio State University
2003 Fellow of The American Society of Mechanical Engineers
2004 Fellow of The Materials Society of Nigeria
2007 Fellow of The Nigerian Academy of Science
Synergistic Activities
Director of The US/Africa Materials Institute; Director of The Undergraduate Program, Princeton Institute of Science and Technology of Materials; Chair of The African Scientific Committee; Key Reader of Metallurgical and Materials Transactions; Chair of The African Renaissance Institutes of Science and Technology (ARIST).
Selected Publications
1. K. Wolf, Z. Zong, J. Meng, N. Rahbar, A. Orana and W. O. Soboyejo, Investigation of
Adhesion in Drug Eluting Stent Layers, Journal of Biomedical Materials Research A, Vol. 87A,
pp. 272-281, 2008.
2. K. Bhalerao, S. C. Lee, A. B. O. Soboyejo and W. O. Soboyejo, A Folic Acid-Based Functional Surface for Biosensor Systems, Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Medicine, Vol. 18, pp. 3-8, 2007.
3. J. Zhou, C. Leuschner, C. Kumar, J. Hormes and W. O. Soboyejo, Sub-Cellular Accumulation of Magnetic Nanoparticles in Breast Tumor and Metasteses, Biomaterials, Vol. 27, pp. 2001-2008, 2006.
4. Y. Cao, R. Bly, Z. Gao, A. Cuitino and W. O. Soboyejo, Investigation of Viscoelasticity of Human Osteosarcoma Cells Using a Shear Assay Method, Journal of Materials Research, Vol. 21, 1922-1930, 2006.
5. Z. Zong, N. Rahbar, Y. Cao and W. O. Soboyejo, Micro and Nano-scale Adhesion Between Gold and Gold: Modeling and Experiments, Journal of Applied Physics, Vol. 100, pp. 104313-1-10, 2006.
6. Y. Cao, C. Kim, S. Forrest and W. O. Soboyejo, Effects of Dust Particle Size and Layer Properties on the Cold Welding of Organic Electronic Devices Fabricated By Stamping, Journal of Applied Physics, Vol. 98, 033712-033717, 2005.
7. C. Milburn, J. Zhou, O. Bravo, C. Kumar and W. O. Soboyejo, Sensing Interactions Between Vimentin Antibody and Antigens Using Nanomechanical Micro-cantilevers for Early Cancer Detection, Journal of Biomedical Nanotechnology, Vol. 1, pp. 30-38, 2005.
8. C. Kim, Y. Cao, W. O. Soboyejo and S. Forrest, Pattering of Active Organic Materials By Direct Transfer For Organic Electronic Devices, Journal of Applied Physics, Vol. 97, 113913, 2005.
9. N. Rahbar, Y. Yang, J. Zhou and W. O. Soboyejo, Mixed Mode Fracture of Dental Interfaces, Materials Science and Engineering A, Vol. 488, pp. 381-388, 2008.
10. H. Gleskova, S. Wagner, W. Soboyejo and Z. Suo, Electrical Response of Thin Film Transistors Under Mechanical Strain, Journal of Applied Physics, Vol. 92, pp. 6224-6229, 2003.
PhD Advisor: Prof. John Knott, F.R.S.