Speaker Details

BIOGRAPHY

Audrey K (Ellerbee) Bowden is Associate Dean of Research in the School of Engineering at Vanderbilt University. She also holds faculty appointments as Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Computer Science and Dermatology. She received her BSE in Electrical Engineering from Princeton University, her PhD in Biomedical Engineering from Duke University and completed her postdoctoral training in Chemistry and Chemical Biology at Harvard University. During her career, Dr. Bowden served as an International Fellow at Ngee Ann Polytechnic in Singapore and as a Legislative Assistant in the United States Senate through the AAAS Science and Technology Policy Fellows Program sponsored by the professional societies Optica and SPIE. She is a Fellow of Optica, a Fellow of SPIE, a Fellow of the AIMBE and the recipient of numerous awards, including the Air Force Young Investigator Award, the NSF Career Award, the Hellman Faculty Scholars Award, and the Phi Beta Kappa Teaching Award. She has also previously served as a Veritas Riff Fellow and Lewis Latimer Fellow and has been a member of numerous professional committees. Her research interests include biomedical optics, microfluidics, and point of care diagnostics.