The National Science Foundation (NSF) has announced Susan S. Margulies will head the Directorate for Engineering. She is internationally recognized for spurring paradigm shifts in pediatric traumatic brain injury and lung injury associated with mechanical ventilators.
Her career has been marked by accomplishments in directing cross-campus research, training, educational, and fundraising initiatives to improve faculty and student diversity, inclusion, and engagement across public and private institutions.
She has also been instrumental in leading educational programs that teach innovative approaches to solve problems at the interface of medicine and engineering.
Margulies is the first biomedical engineer to lead the directorate, which supports fundamental research in emerging and frontier basic research areas.
“Susan Margulies’ experience and expertise is a valuable addition to the National Science Foundation’s work to advance the frontiers of science and engineering research,” said NSF Director Sethuraman Panchanathan. “Her strong leadership combined with her deep knowledge of research translation will help accelerate our nation’s progress to be at the vanguard of discovery and innovation. I am looking forward to her insights and perspectives.”
NSF’s engineering directorate enhances U.S. innovation through its centers, partnerships, and small business programs and is a driving force behind the training and development of the U.S. engineering workforce. The directorate helps prepare the future engineering workforce to innovate and compete in the global economy.
“It is my honor to join NSF to lead the engineering directorate. This is a moment in our nation’s history when engineering and science are celebrated and supported as pathways to address urgent crises and improve our society and economy,” said Margulies. “The call to serve our nation and our field resonate with my values of innovation, rigor, partnership, and inclusion.”
In her new role, Margulies hopes to use bold, integrated national and international strategies to draw on all types of research to practice optimization, and production, while expanding our nation’s engineering workforce.
“We can see the nation is turning to NSF to address some of the most pressing challenges facing science and engineering. To do that, we must forge partnerships with industry, agencies, foundations, institutions of higher learning, communities, and countries,” Margulies added.
Margulies has a bachelor’s degree in mechanical and aerospace engineering from Princeton University and master’s and doctoral degrees in bioengineering from the University of Pennsylvania.
She has won numerous awards and honors, including fellowships from the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, and the Biomedical Engineering Society, as well as numerous other recognitions throughout her career. Margulies is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and the National Academy of Medicine.
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