Visiting Professor Lunch and Learn: Marjolein van der Meulen

When: Friday, April 27th at 11:30 am – 1:30 pm

Where: Clay Pit, 1601 Guadalupe St, Austin, TX 78701

Cost: Your tab at the event

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Please join us at Clay Pit for a luncheon with Cornell Professor Marjolein van der Meulen, one of Cornell’s biomedical engineering leaders.  This small, conversational setting will allow attendees to hear updates on Cornell’s cutting edge biomedical research including the Neurotech initiative and biotechnology.

Dr. van der Meulen is the principal architect of the Biomedical Engineering Undergraduate Major and has a unique perspective on bioengineering throughout the college.  In her own research, she collaborates with faculty across the campus and university, including, but not limited to, Weill Cornell and the Hospital for Special Surgery.

More about Dr. van der Meulen
Marjolein van der Meulen is the James M. and Marsha McCormick Director and Swanson Professor of Biomedical Engineering in the Nancy E and Peter C Meinig School of Biomedical Engineering and Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Cornell University.  She is also a Senior Scientist at Hospital for Special Surgery. Her research in orthopaedic biomechanics focuses on musculoskeletal mechanobiology and bone biomechanics.

Marjolein received her SB from MIT, and MS and PhD from Stanford University, all in mechanical engineering.  Before joining the faculty at Cornell, she worked as a biomedical engineer at the Rehabilitation R&D Center of the Department of Veterans Affairs, in Palo Alto, California.  Marjolein joined the Cornell faculty as an assistant professor in 1996. She previously served as Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Studies in the College of Engineering at Cornell. She is a member-at-large on the Board of Directors of the Biomedical Engineering Society.  She is also the Program Chair for the 2018 Annual Meeting of the Orthopaedic Research Society. Marjolein is a fellow of AAAS, AIMBE and ASME.

Contact: cbc74@cornell.edu