July 16, 2008 — Andrea Armani of Caltech will join Mork family of the Viterbi School of Engineering beginning this fall.

Andrea Armani will join the Mork Family Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science this fall as an assistant  professor of chemical engineering and materials science. She will be coming from the  California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, CA.

Andrea Armani

Armani earned her bachelor of arts degree in physics from the University of Chicago in 2001 and her Ph.D. in applied physics from Caltech in 2007.  From 2006-2008, she was a Clare Boothe Luce Postdoctoral Fellow in biology and chemical engineering at Caltech.

Armani’s research is focused on demonstrating the first label-free, single-molecule sensors. The work is highly interdisciplinary, Armani said, involving the physics of a sensing mechanism, the chemistry of surface functionality and the fluid transport in a sensing chamber, in addition to understanding the underlying biological principles at play.