Susan S. Margulies, PhD
Vice Provost for Research and Innovation
Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Vanderbilt University

Biography: Dr. Susan Margulies is an internationally recognized biomechanical engineer and pioneer in pediatric traumatic brain injury and ventilator-associated lung injury biomechanics. Currently Vice Provost for Research and Innovation and Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Vanderbilt University, she previously directed the NSF Directorate for Engineering (2021–2025), overseeing over 40 percent of federal fundamental academic engineering research funding, and chaired the top-ranked Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory. An author of over 350 peer-reviewed articles with over thirty years of continuous federal and philanthropic funding, Dr. Margulies is an elected member of the National Academy of Engineering, National Academy of Medicine, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, AAAS, and National Academy of Inventors. She has been a member of ASME since 1988.