BREATH

Prof. Cristina Davis is a Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and Associate Dean for Research in the College of Engineering at the University of California, Davis (Davis, CA).  Her research group focuses on novel breath biomarker discovery, and creating miniature analytical sensor systems for mobile chemical detection platforms.  She earned her BS degree (1994) at Duke University with a double major in mathematics and biology. She went completed her PhD (1999) in biomedical engineering at the University of Virginia, and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at The Johns Hopkins University (2001).  She worked in industry in Switzerland (2001-2002) and went on to become a Principal Member of the Technical Staff and the founding Group Leader of Bioengineering at The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory (Cambridge, MA; 2002-2005).  Having spent almost a half-decade in industry, she returned to academics in November 2005.  She is a Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE), the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and National Academy of Inventors (NAI).  She is the incoming chair-elect of the International Association of Breath Research (IABR).

Website: http://mae.ucdavis.edu/faculty/davisc