Carlos M. Rinaldi-Ramos, Ph.D.
Dean’s Leadership Professor and Chair of Chemical Engineering
Professor, J. Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering
Affiliate Faculty, Materials Science and Engineering
Member, UF Health Cancer Center
Email: carlos.rinaldi@ufl.edu
phone: 352-392-0881
Education
- Ph.D., Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2002
- M.S., Chemical Engineering Practice, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2001
- B.S., Chemical Engineering, University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez, 1998
Biographical Sketch
Carlos M. Rinaldi-Ramos is the Chair and Dean’s Leadership Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Florida. He is also a Professor in the J. Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering, an Affiliate Faculty in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, and a member of the UF Health Cancer Center. He received his bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering at the University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez, and completed degrees in Master of Science in Chemical Engineering, Master of Science in Chemical Engineering Practice, and Doctor of Philosophy in Chemical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dr. Rinaldi-Ramos’s research spans synthesis and characterization of magnetic nanoparticles for biomedical applications and evaluation of nanoparticle transport and diffusion in biological fluids. Current efforts focus on developing tracers for magnetic particle imaging (MPI), a new biomedical imaging modality that allows for non-invasive, unambiguous, and quantitative imaging of the in vivo distribution of superparamagnetic iron oxide nanoparticle tracers. His work has been recognized with the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), and election as Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE), the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE), and the Society of Rheology.
Honors & Awards (Selected)
- Fellow, American Institute of Chemical Engineers, 2024
- Lifetime Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2023.
- Doctoral Dissertation Advisor Award for 2020-2021, Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering, April 2022.
- Fellow, Society of Rheology, inducted in 2022.
- College of Fellows, American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering, 2020
- James Y. Oldshue Award, American Institute of Chemical Engineering and Interamerican Confederation of Chemical Engineers, 2019
- University of Florida Term Professorship, 2017-2020
- Kavli Fellow and Invited introductory speaker, 28th Annual Kavli Frontiers of Science Symposium, 2016
- Charles A. Stokes Term Professorship, University of Florida, 2015-2018.
- Indo-American Frontiers of Engineering Fellow, organized by the National Academies of Engineering, 2014
- International Journal of Nanomedicine Early Career Award, 2012.
- Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) 2006.
- National Science Foundation Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (CAREER Award), 2006
- National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow 1998-2001