Horacio Dante Espinosa is the James and Nancy Farley Professor of Manufacturing and Entrepreneurship, Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Biomedical Engineering, and the Director of the Theoretical and Applied Mechanics Program at the McCormick School of Engineering, Northwestern University (NU). He received his Ph.D. in Applied Mechanics from Brown University in 1992. Espinosa has made contributions in the areas of deformation and failure of materials, design of micro- and nano-systems, and microfluidics for single cell manipulation and analysis. He has published over 300 technical papers in these topics. In recognition to his many contributions he was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2020. His work received broad attention in the media including United Press International, NSF Discoveries, Frost and Sullivan, Science Daily, EurekAlert, Small Times, PhysOrg, Nanotechwire, Bio-Medicine, NanoVIP, Nanowerk, Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology News, Medical News Today, Materials Today, Next Big Future, Beyond Breast Cancer, AZoNano, Spektrumdirekt, MEMSNet. http://espinosa.mech.northwestern.edu/press/Professor Espinosa is also the founder and president of iNfinitesimal LLC, a nanotechnology company developing robust next-generation nanoscale devices, scalable nanomanufacturing tools, and microdevices for single cell transfection and analysis.