Adrian Gestos鈥�
Director, MIMIC
听adrian.gestos@colorado.edu鈥�
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Adrian joined CU Boulder in September 2020 and manages the Materials Instrumentation and听Multimodal Imaging Core (MIMIC). Prior to CU Boulder, Adrian worked with the water electrolysis听start-up听AquaHydrex, managing a team to scale up electrode production as well as conducting听fundamental studies into catalyst and membrane performance. Adrian obtained a PhD in Materials听Science from the University of Wollongong (UOW) in Australia, focussing on the properties of polymer听nanofibers investigated with atomic force microscopy. This is not his first experience with core听facilities, having previously managed a coating and fabrication facility at UOW.
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Virginia Ferguson
Professor
听virginia.ferguson@colorado.edu
Faculty Website
Dr. Ferguson is an听expert in soft-hard tissue (e.g., osteochondral) interface tissue mechanics; nano- and micro-indentation of bone, soft tissues, and hydrogels for tissue regeneration; and in how aging, disuse, and metabolic disease detrimentally alter quality of the materials that make up bone and other musculoskeletal tissues. Her lab also draws inspiration from biological materials and structures to form novel engineered materials, using advanced manufacturing techniques听for tissue regeneration. She has led two National Science Foundation Major Research Instrumentation awards for instruments听and established the听MIMIC core facility听to house these tools and to broadly enable multimodal imaging and multiscale mechanical materials characterization.
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Wil Srubar
Associate Professor
听wsrubar@colorado.edu
Faculty Website
Dr. Wil Srubar is an associate professor of civil and architectural engineering and materials science at听the 乐播传媒 Boulder, where he leads the Living Materials Laboratory. Dr. Srubar holds a听PhD from Stanford University, as well as BS and MS degrees from Texas A&M University and the听University of Texas at Austin, respectively. His research integrates synthetic biology, polymer science,听and cement chemistry to create low-carbon, biomimetic, and living material technologies for the built听environment. To date, his laboratory has received >$8M in sponsored research funding through the听US National Science Foundation (NSF), Air Force Research Laboratories (AFRL), ARPA-E, and DARPA鈥檚听Biological Technologies Office, and he is a recipient of the NSF CAREER Award. He has authored >85听technical journal articles, book chapters, and conference proceedings, and his work has been听highlighted in The Washington Post, National Public Radio (NPR), and The New York Times. He remains听actively involved in leadership positions for the American Concrete Institute (ACI), the American听Ceramic Society鈥檚 Cements Division, and ASCE鈥檚 Architectural Engineering Institute.鈥�