Albert Folch Folch

Who is Albert Folch Folch?

Albert Folch Folch is a Catalan scientist, writer, and artist.

Albert Folch was born in Barcelona in 1966. He received his B.Sc. in Physics from the University of Barcelona in 1989. In 1994, he received his Ph.D. in Surface Science and Nanotechnology from the U.B.’s Physics Dept. under Dr. Javier Tejada's supervision. During his Ph.D. he was also a visiting scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory working on Atomic Force Microscopy under Dr. Miquel Salmeron. From 1994–1996, he was a postdoc at M.I.T. developing microdevices under the advice of Martin A. Schmidt and Mark S. Wrighton. In 1997, he joined the laboratory of Dr. Mehmet Toner as a postdoc at Harvard University’s Center for Engineering in Medicine to work on BioMEMS and Tissue Engineering. In 2000 he joined the University of Washington's Dept. of Bioengineering, where he is an Associate Professor. In 2001 he received a National Science Foundation CAREER Award and in 2014 he was elected to the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering College of Fellows. He serves on the Advisory Board of Lab on a Chip, the leading BioMEMS journal.