Rigoberto “Gobet” Advincula, a scientist with joint appointments at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, has been named a Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering, or AIMBE.
Election to the AIMBE College of Fellows is a distinction conferred on the top 2% of medical and biological engineers. Advincula, an ORNL-UT Governor’s Chair Professor and leader of ORNL’s Macromolecular Nanomaterials group, was lauded for his work in advanced biomaterials, anti-microbial graphene materials, non-biofouling surfaces and coatings, surface plasmon resonance and biosensing.
During an induction ceremony in Arlington, Virginia, on March 25, Advincula became one of 162 new members of the AIMBE College of Fellows Class of 2024.
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