Natacha DePaola, Ph.D., Carol and Ed Kaplan Amour Dean of Engineering, Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Illinois Institute of Technology – On May 7, 2009 Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) Provost Alan Cramb, announced the appointment of Natacha DePaola as dean of IIT Armour College of Engineering. DePaola joins IIT from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), where she has been chair of the Department of Biomedical Engineering since 2005 and on the faculty since 1994. Dr. DePaola completed her Ph.D. degree in Medical Engineering and Medical Physics from the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology (1991) and Postdoctoral training at Columbia University (1992).DePaola received a National Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER), is a Frontiers Alumna of the National Academy of Engineering, and a Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering.
