Professor of Aeronautics and Bioengineering
B.S.E., Princeton University, 2001
M.S., California Institute of Technology, 2003
Ph.D., California Institute of Technology, 2005

Phone: (626) 395-6294
Location: 203 Guggenheim
MC 138-78

Biography

John Dabiri is a Professor in the Graduate Aeronautical Laboratories and the Option of Bioengineering at Caltech and a 2010 MacArthur Fellow.  He graduated from Princeton University with a B.S.E. degree summa cum laude in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering.  He came to Caltech as a National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellow, Betty and Gordon Moore Fellow, and Y.C. Fung Fellow in Bioengineering. Under the supervision of Professor Morteza Gharib, he earned an M.S. degree in Aeronautics, followed by a Ph.D. in Bioengineering with a minor in Aeronautics in April 2005. He joined the Caltech faculty in May 2005. His honors include an Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award and a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) for his research in bio-inspired propulsion. Popular Science magazine named him one of its "Brilliant 10" scientists for 2008, and Bloomberg Businessweek magazine listed him among its Technology Innovators in 2012. He is currently the Chair of the Faculty at Caltech.