Mihail Roco

Mihail C. Roco is the founding chair of the US National Science and Technology Council subcommittee on Nanoscale Science, Engineering and Technology (NSET), and is Senior Advisor for Science and Engineering, including Nanotechnology, at the National Science Foundation. He is also the editor in chief of the Journal of Nanoparticle Research.

Prior to joining National Science Foundation, he obtained a doctorate from the Polytechnic University of Bucharest (1976), he was Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Kentucky (1981–1995), and held visiting professorships at the California Institute of Technology (1988–1989), Johns Hopkins University (1993–1995), Tohoku University (1989), and Delft University of Technology (1997–98). He has played a leadership role in the National Nanotechnology Initiative and in developing perspectives on the societal implications of nanotechnology. He pioneered converge science, identifying basic theories, principles and methods for convergence, and applied it to various platforms such as convergence of nanotechnology with bio-, cognition-, digital- and other fields for various goals, in what is sometimes called converging and emerging technologies. He conducted research, teaching, consulting to industry in the Americas, Europe, Japan, and Australia. Dr. Roco is credited with thirteen patents and has contributed over two hundred articles and twenty books on mass transfer, rotating machinery, multiphase systems, computer simulations, nanoparticles and nanosystems, trends in emerging technologies, knowledge convergence and societal implications. Dr. Roco coordinated the preparation of the U.S. National Science and Technology Council (NSTC) reports on "Nanotechnology Research Directions" (NSTC, 1999) and the "National Nanotechnology Initiative" (NSTC, 2000). Under his stewardship the nanotechnology federal investment has increased from about $3 million in 1991 at NSF to $1.4 billion in 2006. The cumulative National Nanotechnology Initiative investment in research and development is about $24 billion in 2017. Dr. Roco is a Correspondent Member of the Swiss Academy of Engineering Sciences, Honorary Member of the Romanian Academy, Fellow of American Society of Mechanical Engineering (ASME), Fellow of American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE), and Fellow of Institute of Physics. He served as associate editor for Journal of Fluids Engineering and Journal of Measurement Science and Technology. In 2002, he co-organised the Euro-American workshop "Nanotechnology: Revolutionary Opportunities and Societal Implications", editing the proceedings with Renzo Tomellini of the European Commission.

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