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Name: Aaron D. Mazzeo edit
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Aaron Mazzeo is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and a Faculty Fellow at the Honors College at Rutgers University. He was a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University in the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, and he completed his undergraduate (S.B.) and graduate degrees (S.M. and Ph.D.) at MIT in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. Prior to joining the faculty at Rutgers, he had internships at ASML and the Milliken Research Corporation, worked for then-startup company Fusion Optix, and performed research in precision and manufacturing engineering, soft robotics, paper-based microfluidics and electronics. The Mazzeo Research Group, or Rutgers Lab for Machines, Manufacturing, and Mechatronics, focuses on flexible and disposable electronics for mechanical and biological sensing, soft-hard robotics, cold plasma-based disinfection and treatments, and in-space manufacturing. His group has published in top journals including the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Advanced Materials, and Applied Physics Letters. Funding has come through the NSF, NASA, the USDA, the DoD, and DARPA. Aaron has received an NSF CAREER Award, NASA MSFC Summer Faculty Fellowships, an A. Walter Tyson Assistant Professorship Award through the School of Engineering, a Rutgers Engineering Governing Council's Professor-of-the-Year Award, and a Rutgers Presidential Fellowship for Teaching Excellence. He and his family have also appreciated living and participating as members of the Rutgers Honors College community. Through the Honors College and the School of Engineering, he is starting an initiative with crowd-sourced living content to facilitate project-based learning in self-taught and instructor-led environments.