LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD

2024 Recipient

Victor Ugaz

Victor Ugaz is a Professor and former Interim Department Head at the Artie McFerrin Department of Chemical Engineering at Texas A&M University. He is receiving for this award based on his sustained contributions in electrokinetics and electrophoresis, for his unique approaches that have merged the disciplines of polymer materials science and electrokinetic microfluidics, and for his contributions to developing integrated microdevices for analyzing minute quantities of DNA. His work has been published multiple times in several of the most prestigious journals such as Nature, Science, PNAS, and Angewandte.  Examples of the outcomes of this research work are a multivortex micromixing device, which employs a versatile mixing approach for microfluidic devices and a a pocket-size PCR thermocycler that requires low power input, making it truly portable. He has been the PI for numerous grants from several funding institutions, such as NIH, NSF, DOE, Keck Foundation, The Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation, among others. Prof. Ugaz has made a lasting and significant impact on the AES Electrophoresis Society through his strong leadership (President 2008-2010), Vice-President, Councilor, and Newsletter Editor. He has dedicated several years of service to AES, he enthusiastically and relentlessly worked to grow AES.