Ruben Diaz-Rivera
Adjunct Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Purdue University
Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering, UPRM
Email: rdiaz@me.uprm.edu
Phone: +1 787 832-4040, ext. 2529
Fax: +1 787 265-3817
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Bio-Microfluidics Research Group
University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez
P.O. Box 9045
Mayaguez, Puerto Rico 00681
Education
- BSME, University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez, 2000
- PhD, University of California, Berkeley, 2005
Research Interests
- Transport phenomena in biological systems
- Microfluidic devices
- Controlled drug delivery in single-cell systems
- Automated drug discovery
- Bio-molecular detection
- Quantitative molecular transport across bio-membranes
- Fundamental biophysics