Dr. Margulies is a Professor of Bioengineering at the University of Pennsylvania and an Associate Fellow at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia's Center for Injury Research and Prevention.
Susan Margulies, PhD is a Professor of Bioengineering at the University of Pennsylvania and an Associate Fellow at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia's Center for Injury Research and Prevention. Dr. Margulies is also a Professor and Chair at Georgia Institute of Technology's Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering.
Dr. Margulies' research focuses on biomechanics, cell mechanics, and tissue engineering. She has served or currently serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Physiology, the Journal of Biomechanical Engineering, the Journal of Biomechanics, American Journal of Physiology-Lung Cell and Molecular and the Journal of Neurotrauma. In addition, Dr. Margulies has served on numerous federal advisory committees, grant review panels for NSF, NIH, and CDC, served as chair of the NIH RIBT study section, and the 2015 NIH Director’s Pioneer Awards Competition. Her work has been published in over 135 peer-reviewed papers, and featured in The New York Times and Forbes and on CNN and the BBC.
BSE, Princeton University (Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering), 1982
MSE, University of Pennsylvania (Bioengineering), 1983
PhD, University of Pennsylvania (Bioengineering), 1987
Associate Fellow, Center for Injury Research and Prevention, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Professor of Bioengineering, Penn Engineering, University of Pennsylvania
Professor and Chair, Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology
ALA Young Investigator Award
Whitaker Foundation Young Investigator Award
NSF CAREER Award
Stapp Car Crash Conference Award
S Reid Warren Award for Distinguished Teaching
Ford Motor Company Award for Faculty Advising
American Society of Mechanical Engineering Award
Association of Women in Science Elizabeth Bingham Award for the Advancement of Women in Science