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Engineering professor and two alumni elected to the U.S. National Academy of Engineering
Published: February 10, 2020
University Professor Michael Sefton and Faculty of Applied Science & Engineering alumni Raffaello D’Andrea and Abigail Sellen have been elected as international members of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering (NAE).
“On behalf of the faculty, my warmest congratulations to Professor Sefton, Professor D’Andrea and Dr. Sellen on this well-deserved honour,” said Christopher Yip, dean of U of T Engineering. “Their election to the NAE demonstrates the impact our faculty and alumni are making at a global level and the respect in which they are held by their peers worldwide.”
The executive director of Medicine by Design and the Michael E. Charles Professor in the department of chemical engineering and applied chemistry, Sefton is a world leader in biomaterials, biomedical engineering and regenerative medicine. His lab, located in the Donnelly Centre for Cellular and Biomolecular Research, has created biomaterials that actively promote the growth of blood vessels – accelerating wound healing and supporting the development of lab-grown tissues.
D’Andrea is professor of dynamic systems and control at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich. Sellen is deputy director at Microsoft Research Cambridge in the United Kingdom.
