Senior Faculty Outstanding Research Award

Peter Kofinas, professor in the Fischell Department of Bioengineering and associate dean for faculty affairs and graduate programs focuses on the synthesis, characterization and processing of novel polymer-based nanostructured systems that have a variety of uses across medicine, energy storage and microelectronics. Presently, he focuses on novel blood coagulation-inducing polymer hydrogels, sensors for the detection of chemical and biological threats, nanocomposites for flexible antennae and design of shape-conforming nanostructured polymeric battery energy storage systems.

After 15 years at the Clark School, Kofinas and his students have published 57 peer-reviewed publications, which have been cited 966 times, with a steep climb in citations over the past 5 years. He has filed nine patent applications, speaks extensively at other academic institutions and serves annually on review panels for several federal agencies.

Kofinas has earned more than $11 million in federal research grants. He is a CAREER Award winner and a two-time recipient of the UMD Outstanding Invention award. He is a Keystone Professor and received the Clark School’s Junior Faculty Outstanding Teaching Award in 1999.

Past Recipients

2012: Peter Kofinas, Bioengineering
2011: Michael Zacharia, Mechanical Engineering and Chemistry
2010: Allen Davis, Civil and Environmental Engineering
2009: Michael Pecht, Mechanical Engineering and Center for Advanced Life Cycle Engineering
2008: K. J. Ray Liu, Electrical and Computer Engineering
2007: Rama Chellappa, Electrical and Computer Engineering
2006: Ashwani Gupta, Mechanical Engineering
2005: Edward Ott, Electrical and Computer Engineering
2004: Thomas Antonsen, Electrical and Computer Engineering
2003: William Bentley, Bioengineering
2002: Inderjit Chopra, Aerospace Engineering
2001: Ramamoorthy Ramesh, Materials Science and Engineering