The Mechanical Engineering Department is happy to announce the appointment of Lydia Sohn as Assistant Professor in the field of micro-nano engineering.

Dr. Sohn received her A.B. degree in Chemistry and Physics (magna cum laude) from Harvard University in 1988. She then entered graduate school at Harvard and received the A.M. degree in Physics in 1990 and the Ph.D. degree in Physics in 1992. Following her graduate studies, Sohn held a one-year NSF/NATO postdoctoral appointment in Applied Physics at Delft University of Technology in The Netherlands. From 1993-1995 she was a postdoctoral fellow at AT&T Bell Laboratories in the Semiconductor Physics Research Department. Sohn joined the faculty at Princeton University as an Asssistant Professor in condensed matter physics in 1995.

Dr. Sohn's research is centered on developing microfluidic devices for biological sensing at both the cellular and molecular levels and engineering novel inorganic/organic hybrid materials utilizing micro- and nano-fabrication technologies. She has authored or co-authored 33 papers in highly respected archival journals as well as four filed U.S. patents.