E-skins and e-tattoos: Your cybernetic future

Dr. Nanshu Lu is currently the Frank and Kay Reese Professor at the University of Texas at Austin (UT-Austin). She received her B.Eng. with honors from Tsinghua University, Beijing, Ph.D. from Harvard University, and Beckman Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). Her research concerns the mechanics, materials, manufacture, and human or robot integration of soft electronics. For example, she has invented wearable e-tattoos for digitizing the human body and soft e-skins for robots to gain human-like sensations. She is a Clarivate (Web of Science) highly cited researcher. She is a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), and she is on the Board of Directors of the Society of Engineering Science (SES). She is currently an Associate Editor of the Journal of Applied Mechanics and Nano Letters. She is on the Editorial Board of Advanced Electronic Materials, IEEE Journal on Flexible Electronics, and Sensors. She has been named 35 innovators under 35 by MIT Technology Review (TR 35) and iCANX/ACS Nano Inaugural Rising Star. She has received the NSF CAREER Award, the ONR and AFOSR Young Investigator Awards, and most recently, the ASME Thomas J.R. Hughes Young Investigator Award. She has been selected as one of the five great innovators on campus and five world-changing women at UT Austin.