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Sochol, Ryan D.

Sochol, Ryan D.

Director, Maryland Robotics Center
Associate Professor
Fischell Institute Fellow
Mechanical Engineering
Fischell Department of Bioengineering
Maryland Robotics Center
The Institute for Systems Research
Robert E. Fischell Institute for Biomedical Devices
3156 Brendan Iribe Center

BACKGROUND

Prof. Sochol’s Bioinspired Advanced Manufacturing (BAM) Laboratory pioneers micro/nanoscale additive manufacturing or “3D printing” strategies that advance life sciences and biomedical applications to, ultimately, benefit human health and well-being.  These efforts rely primarily on an alternative 3D printing technology called “Two-Photon Direct Laser Writing”, including using the recently acquired state-of-the-art 3D micro/nanoprinter housed in Prof. Sochol's lab (which is accessible to internal and external users).  

Dr. Sochol currently serves as Director of the Maryland Robotics Center (MRC) and holds a joint appointment as an Associate Professor in Mechanical Engineering & the Institute for Systems Research (ISR).  Dr. Sochol is also Fischell Institute Fellow of the Robert E. Fischell Institute for Biomedical Devices and an affiliate faculty member of the Fischell Department of Bioengineering.

EDUCATION

  • Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley (2011)
  • M.S., University of California, Berkeley (2009)
  • B.S., Northwestern University (2006)

POSTDOCTORAL TRAINING

  • NIH Fellow within the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences & Technology, Harvard Medical School, and Brigham & Women’s Hospital
  • Director/Founder of the Micro Mechanical Methods for Biology (M3B) Laboratory Program within the Berkeley Sensor & Actuator Center at the University of California, Berkeley
  • Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow within the Institute of Industrial Science at the University of Tokyo

HONORS AND AWARDS

Primary Courses

The Clark School Celebrates Women and Multiracial Engineers and Engineering Professionals

Join us this March as we celebrate Women’s History Month and Multiracial Heritage Month.

Maryland Engineers Take On Big Challenges in Medicine

Read about Clark School researchers who are engineering medical breakthroughs needed today in the Fall/Winter 2024 issue of Engineering at Maryland magazine.

Forty years of MEMS research at the Hilton Head Workshop

UMD Professor Reza Ghodssi is president of Transducer Research Foundation (TRF), the organization that sponsors the event.

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