Workshop Organization

This Workshop was organized by Lehigh University’s Pasteur Partners Ph.D. (P3) program. It is a part of National Science Foundation’s Innovation in Graduate Education project (EHR-1806904): Partnership with Researchers in Industry for Doctoral Education (IGE-PRIDE). 

Workshop Host

John D. Simon, Ph.D.

Former President

Lehigh University 

Organizing Committee

Himanshu Jain, D.Eng.Sc.

Diamond Distinguished Chair and Professor of Materials Science and Engineering

Director, Institute for Functional Materials and Devices

Lehigh University

PI, IGE-PRIDE 

Anand Jagota, Ph.D.

Professor and Founding Chair, Department of Bioengineering

P.C. Rossin College of Engineering and Applied Science

Lehigh University

Co-PI, IGE-PRIDE 

Volkmar Dierolf, Ph.D.

Distinguished Professor and Chair, Department of Physics

College of Arts and Sciences

Lehigh University

Co-PI, IGE-PRIDE 

Kathryn Zimmermann,  Ph.D.
Assistant Vice President for Strategic and Emergent Academic Initiatives
Rutgers University

Former Special Assistant to the Provost for Strategic and Emerging Initiatives

Lehigh University