Carolyn Ren
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Carolyn L. Ren is a Chinese-Canadian researcher in microfluidics.[1] She holds a tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Microfluidic Technologies as a professor at the University of Waterloo, in the Department of Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering, where she directs the Waterloo Microfluidics Laboratory.[2] She has also founded multiple spinoff companies to commercialize her research discoveries.[3][1][4]
Ren graduated from the Harbin Institute of Technology with a bachelor's degree in thermal engineering in 1992, and continued at the Harbin Institute of Technology for a master's degree in 1995.[2][5] After working for four years as a lecturer in power engineering at the Dalian University of Technology,[5] she came to Canada for doctoral study in mechanical engineering, completing her Ph.D. in 2004 at the University of Toronto.[2][5]
She joined the Department of Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering as an assistant professor in 2004, and was tenured as an associate professor there in 2010.[5] She is also the co-founder of four spinoff companies,[3][4] including Advanced Electrophoresis Solutions Limited, QuantWave Technologies Incorporated,[1] and Air Microfluidics.[4]
