Paul Steen

Education

Steen received degrees in Engineering and English Literature from Brown University, his Doctor of Philosophy from Johns Hopkins University, and postdoctoral training at Stanford University.

Career

He currently holds the Maxwell M. Upson Chair in Engineering at Cornell University. Steen’s primary area of focus is in the dynamical stability of fluid systems Steen invented a switchable adhesion device and has expertise in planar-flow spin casting.

Presently, he serves as an Associate Editor of the Nature journal Microgravity.

From 2000 to 2012, he was Associate Editor of the Journal of Fluid Mechanics.

Achievements

• He has received awards including the Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship and the Henry Marion Howe Medal and has been elected a fellow of the American Physical Society and of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers.