Susan Margulies

Margulies grew up in Rochester, Minnesota.[2] She completed her Bachelor's at Princeton University, where she majored in mechanical and aerospace engineering.[2] She graduated summa cum laude in 1982.[3] She spent her summer holidays at Massachusetts Institute of Technology completing research related to biology.[4] She earned her Master's and PhD at University of Pennsylvania in 1987.[2] Her dissertation, Biomechanics of traumatic coma in the primate, considered diffuse axonal injury.[5]

After completing her PhD, Marguiles joined the Mayo Clinic as a postdoctoral researcher working in a pulmonary lab.[4] In 1993 she joined University of Pennsylvania.[6] She was the first woman to be appointed Professor to the Biomedical engineering department at the University of Pennsylvania in 2004.[4] Here she led the Injury Biomechanics lab, focussing on lung injury and head injury.[7] The lung research studied lung function in vivo and in vitro using animal models developed for pulmonary diseases.[8] Her head injury research integrated animal models, computational models, patient data and mechanical properties in order to understand children's traumatic brain injury.[8] She is interested in the injury thresholds within the brain and lung.[6] She launched the Neurointensive Care and Assessment Facility with money from National Institutes of Health.[9] By studying the molecular biology of injured cells, Marguiles hopes to develop therapeutic measures for traumatic injury.[10][11]

In 2015 she joined the advisory board of Astrocyte Pharmaceuticals.[12] In May 2017 she was announced as Chair of the Coulter Department and Eminent Scholar at Emory University and the Georgia Institute of Technology.[13] She has received over $35 million in research funding, published over 350 peer-reviewed scientific articles and 11 book chapters.[14][15]

• 1992 Whitaker Foundation Young Investigator[16]
• 1997 NSF CAREER Award[16]
• 1996 S. Reid Warren Award for Distinguished Teaching[3]
• 2009 Ford Motor Company Award for Faculty Advising[16]
• 2007 American Society of Mechanical Engineering Award[16]
• 2007 Association of Women in Science Elizabeth Bingham Award for the Advancement of Women in Science[16]
• 2006 American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering, Fellow[16]
• 2009 American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Fellow[16]
• 2009 Biomedical Engineering Society, Fellow[16]
• 2015 Distinguished Lecturer, Sackler Institute for Advanced Studies[17]
• 2020 National Academy of Engineering, Member[18]