University of California San Diego. La Jolla, California. USA February 9th, 2012

Professor Juan C. Lasheras elected member of the prestigious National Academy of Engineering of the United States of America.

The National Academy of Engineering (NAE) of the USA has announced today the election of Professor Juan Carlos Lasheras as one of its new members http://www.nae.edu/. Election to the National Academy of Engineering is among the highest professional distinctions accorded to an engineer. Academy membership honors those who have made outstanding contributions to engineering research

and practice including significant contributions to the engineering literature and to the pioneering of new and developing fields of technology.

Professor Juan C. Lasheras is an aeronautical engineer by training who works at the intersection between medicine and engineering. Professor Lasheras’ original contributions to the field of mechanics have led to major advances in both engineering research and practice. He elucidated the mechanisms of explosive (disruptive) burning of multicomponent and emulsified fuel droplets and clarified the structure and stability of turbulent mixing layers and jets, contributing to improvements in the efficiency in jet propulsion. He also identified and explained the regimes of liquid atomization relevant to the design of rocket engines and chemical reactors. For the last 10 years, Lasheras has been working at the interface between mechanics, biology and medicine. His recent studies have led to advances in biomechanics at both the macroscopic and cellular levels. He evaluated the effects of unsteady blood flows in the risk of rupture of aortic and intracranial arterial aneurysms and clarified some of the biochemical pathways for the generation of the traction forces exerted by cells during migration. He currently works on several aspects of mechanobiology, including cell mechano-transduction, cell migration, and cancer cell invasion. Capsule Bio: Juan C. Lasheras is the Stanford and Beverly Penner

Professor of Applied Sciences at the UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering. He is a distinguished professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and Bioengineering and the Director of the Center for Medical Devices and Instrumentation at the Institute of Engineering in Medicine. Lasheras received the F.N. Frenkiel Award for Fluid Dynamics from the American Physical Society (APS) in 1990. He is a corresponding member of the Royal Academy of Engineering of Spain (Real Academia de Ingenieria de Espana), and a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS). He was a Guggenheim Fellow and a George Van Ness-Lothrop Fellow and served as the Chairman of the Division of Fluid Dynamics of the APS. He was awarded Doctor Honoris Causa degrees from the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain in January 2011 and from the Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain in October 2011. Lasheras holds 44 US patents in medical devices technology and was the co-founder of InnerCool Therapies Inc. currently a part of Philips' Clinical Care Systems. He received an Aeronautical Engineering degree from the Universidad Politecnica de Madrid in 1975 and a Masters and Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1979 and 1982 respectively. Professor Lasheras was born in Valencia, Spain and holds dual USA and Spanish citizenships.