Manu Prakash
Associate Professor, Stanford University
- Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- M.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- B.Tech, Indian Institute of Technology
- Associate Professor, Bioengineering
- Senior Fellow, Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment
- Associate Professor (By courtesy), Biology
- Member, Bio-X
- Member, Maternal & Child Health Research Institute (MCHRI)
- Affiliate, Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment
- Member, Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute
- Algorithmic Self-assembly
- Frugal Science and Global Health
- Organismic Biophysics
- Wonderland of Living Soft Matter
- MIT Ideas Sustainability Prize, MIT (2003)
- Lemelson MIT Student Finalist Award, Lemelson Foundation (2008)
- Junior Fellow (Physics), Harvard Society of Fellows (2008-2011)
- Frederick E. Terman Fellow, Stanford University (2011-2013)
- TED Senior Fellow, Technology, Entertainment and Design (TED) (2011-2013)
- Pew Scholar, Pew Foundation (2013-2017)
- MacArthur Fellow, MacArthur Foundation (2016)
- Chan Zuckerberg BioHub Investigator, Chan Zuckerberg BioHub (2017)
- INDEX Design Award, INDEX (2017)
- NSF "Vizzies" Experts' Choice Award, Popular Science (2017)
- Tau Beta Pi Teaching Award, Tau Beta Pi (2017)
- WIRED's Next List, WIRED (2017)
- Design of the Year Award (Paperfuge), Beazley (2018)
- Inaugural Fellow, Leading Interdisciplinary Collaborations, Stanford Woods Institute (2018)
- Humanitarian Award for Contributions in Science, Technology and Robotics, Rotary International (2020)
- Unilever Colworth Prize, Microbiology Society (2020)
- Ernst Abbe Award, New York Microscopical Society (2021)
- Schmidt Innovation Fellow, Schmidt Foundation (2021)