Dr. Feng Guo has a distinguished career in academia and research. Since 2023, he has been an Affiliate Member of the Gill Center for Molecular Neurosciences at Indiana University, complementing his role as an Affiliate Member of the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, a position he has held since 2020. He has been an Associated Member of the Simon Cancer Center at the Indiana University School of Medicine since 2018. Dr. Guo joined Indiana University in 2017 as an Assistant Professor in the Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering and was later promoted to Associate Professor with tenure. Prior to his tenure at Indiana University, he was a Dean’s Postdoctoral Fellow at the School of Medicine, Stanford University, from 2016 to 2017. His early research roles include serving as a Research Assistant at the College of Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University (2011-2015), the School of Physics and Technology, Wuhan University, China (2010-2011), and the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA (2008-2009).
Honors & Awards:
2023: Young Innovator Award, Journal of “Nano Research”, Springer
2022: Early Career Award, The Pennsylvania State University
2021: Emerging Investigator, Journal of “Nanoscale”, Royal Society of Chemistry
2021: Outstanding Junior Faculty Award, Indiana University
2020: Luddy Faculty Fellow, Indiana University
2020: NIH Director’s New Innovator Award, National Institutes of Health
2019: GLUE Award, Indiana Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute
2017: Dean’s Postdoctoral Fellowship, School of Medicine, Stanford University
2016: Thomas and June Beaver Award, The Pennsylvania State University
2012: NSF CMMI Conference Fellowship, National Science Foundation
2006: The People Scholarship, Wuhan University, China
Panels & Services
NIH Panels: ETTN (2022); ZDA1 (2022 spring, 2022 fall); MCST (2023)
NSF Panels: CCSS (2018); CASIS (2021); BMMB (2023)
Others: Swedish Research Council (2020); Alzheimer’s Association (2021); Austrian Science Council (2022)
Research Interests
Acoustic tweezers and their applications in manipulating micro-objects
Nanotechnology and its biomedical applications
Molecular neuroscience and cancer research
Development of innovative methodologies for cell and tissue manipulation