Rate My Professor Patrick Doyle

Patrick S. Doyle is the Robert T. Haslam (1911) Professor in Chemical Engineering and Postdoctoral Officer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He earned a B.S. in chemical engineering from the University of Pennsylvania in 1992, followed by an M.S. in 1993 and a Ph.D. in 1997 from Stanford University. His research focuses on microfluidics, complex fluids, polymer physics, rheology, and transport phenomena within the broader domain of soft matter engineering. Doyle has held his current professorship at MIT, where he also serves in administrative roles supporting postdoctoral scholars. He previously received the NSF CAREER Award in 2003 and the Henry L. and Grace Doherty Professorship from 2005 to 2007. Among his honors are the Singapore Research Professorship in 2013, 2016, and 2021; the Soft Matter Lectureship Award in 2012; the John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship in 2009; the Joliot Chair at ESPCI in 2009; the Rothschild-Yvette Mayent-Institute Curie Award in 2009; the Lab on a Chip Pioneers of Miniaturization Prize in 2008; the Michael Mohr Outstanding Faculty Award in 2013 and 2014; and the AIChE Alpha Chi Sigma Award for Chemical Engineering Research in 2022. Doyle is the principal investigator of the Doyle Research Group, which advances fundamental and applied work in micro- and nanofluidic technologies, nanoemulsions, DNA biophysics, biosensing, and rheology. He is a co-founder of Firefly Bioworks and Motif Micro. His work has contributed to advancements in chemical engineering through extensive publications and leadership in the field.