Thomas Thundat, Ph.D.

BUFFALO, N.Y. — Thomas Thundat, an internationally recognized expert on nanomechanical sensors, network of sensors and quasi-wireless transmission of electricity, has joined the University at Buffalo’s RENEW Institute and School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.

Thundat will serve as Professor of Empire Innovation in RENEW— an interdisciplinary institute dedicated to research and education on globally pressing problems in energy, environment and water — and in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering (CBE).

His appointment was announced by RENEW Director Amit Goyal and Liesl Folks, dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.

“We are delighted that Thomas Thundat, an internationally-recognized expert with an exemplary record of research and service, has joined the UB RENEW Institute and CBE. He will boost UB’s position as a premier public research university and will significantly impact all the focus areas of RENEW,” Folks and Goyal said in a joint statement… Continue reading.

WASHINGTON, D.C.— The American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) has announced the pending induction of Thomas Thundat, Ph.D., Professor and Canada Excellence Research Chair Fellow APS, AAAS, ECS, ASME, SPIE, NAI Fellow, National Institute of Nano Technology, Chemical and Materials Engineering, University of Alberta, to its College of Fellows. Dr. Thundat was nominated, reviewed, and elected by peers and members of the College of Fellows For his pioneering contributions to micro and nanomechanical biosensors and the development sub-surface scanning probe microscopy..