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Z. Hugh Fan

MAE Excellence Term Professor

Affiliations Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Faculty
Office 223 Larsen Hall Mailing P.O. Box 116250 Gainesville FL 32611 Office Phone: 352-846-3021 Office Fax: 352-392-7303 Website: http://www.mae.ufl.edu/~hfan/

Biography

Professor Fan joined UF in 2003.  His research focus is to develop microfluidics and BioMEMS technologies and apply them to biomedical applications.  Microfluidics involves device fabrication and manufacturing, study of fluid behavior in micro-scale, and exploiting the devices for a variety of applications including point-of-care testing, environmental monitoring, and detection of pathogens in the field.

Education

Ph.D., 1994, University of Alberta