Amor Menezes

Amor A. Menezes, Ph.D., is an assistant professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, an affiliate of the J. Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering, an affiliate of the Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering, and a member of the Institute for Cell & Tissue Science and Engineering at the University of Florida. He received his Ph.D. in aerospace engineering from the University of Michigan in 2010 and completed his postdoctoral training at the University of California, Berkeley and the University of Michigan in quantitative biosciences and automotive system modeling, respectively. Dr. Menezes is the Science Principal Investigator of the Center for the Utilization of Biological Engineering in Space, a NASA Space Technology Research Institute in biomanufacturing for deep space exploration. His group applies dynamical systems theory and control engineering methods in the fields of systems biology and synthetic biology.