Prof. Mycek's Biography
About the PI:
Mary-Ann Mycek, Ph.D., is a Professor in the Biomedical Engineering (BME) Department at the University of Michigan. She received her Ph.D. in Physics from U.C. Berkeley, where she specialized in condensed matter physics and optical spectroscopy, before pursuing postdoctoral training in laser medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School. As an Assistant Professor of Physics at Dartmouth, she established an experimental and computational research group in biomedical optics, a multidisciplinary field incorporating elements of the physical and life sciences, engineering, and medicine. At the University of Michigan, she joined the College of Engineering as an Associate Professor of BME and established the Biomedical Optical Diagnostics Laboratory. Her translational research program includes basic (pre-clinical), applied (clinical), and computational research toward quantitative, non-invasive, optical sensing and imaging in cells and tissues.