Henry Hess, PhD
Henry Hess, received his PhD in Physics from the Free University Berlin (Germany) in 1999. After appointments as a Postdoctoral Scientist and Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Bioengineering at the University of Washington, he joined the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Florida in 2005 as Assistant Professor. Since 2009, he has been teaching and researching in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Columbia. Professor Hess also served as the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on NanoBioscience from 2014 to 2019. His primary research interest is nanobiotechnology, in particular, hybrid nanodevices and materials merging biological and synthetic building blocks. He explores creative approaches to the design of such devices drawing from chemistry, biotechnology, microfabrication, biology, and engineering.