Mark A. Shannon
Dr. Mark A. Shannon is the Director of a U.S. National Science Foundation Science and Technology Center for Advanced Materials for the Purification of Water with Systems (WaterCAMPWS), which is a multiple university and government laboratory center for advancing the science and engineering of materials and systems for revolutionary improvements in water purification for human use. The WaterCAMPWS has over 40 faculty and 180 students from the fields of Environmental Engineering, Chemical and Mechanical Engineering, Chemistry, Biology and Virology, and Material Science and Physics working on issues related to water purification, treatment, and environmental engineering. Dr. Shannon also chaired the Instrument Systems Development Study Session for the National Institutes of Health for several years to advance sensing and diagnostics for human health. He is also the Director of the Micro-Nano-Mechanical Systems (MNMS) Laboratory at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), a multi user laboratory devoted to research and education in the design and fabrication of micro- and nanoelectromechanical systems, as well as micro-nanofluidic sensors for water and biological fluids. Dr. Shannon received his B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Mechanical Engineering from the University of California at Berkeley. He is the James W. Bayne Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the UIUC.