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Marjolein C.H. van der Meulen, PhD is the Swanson Professor of Engineering at the Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Cornell University. Currently, she also serves as Senior Scientist in the Laboratory for Biomedical Mechanics & Materials at the Hospital for Special Surgery, New York, NY and the Interim Dean for Research and Graduate Studies for Cornell's College of Engineering.

Prior to Professor van der Meulen's arrival at Cornell in 1996, she worked as a biomedical engineer at the Rehabilitation R&D Center of the Department of Veterans Affairs, in Palo Alto, California. She joined the VA after completing her MS and PhD at Stanford University with Professor Dennis Carter and SB at MIT, all in mechanical engineering. As a graduate student she received a NASA Graduate Student Researchers Program fellowship and conducted her experiments at NASA Ames Research Center with Dr. Emily Morey Holton.

In 1995, Prof. van der Meulen received an NIH FIRST Award and in 1999 an NSF Faculty Early Career Development Award. In 2008, she was elected a Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering. She has been awarded both College and Sibley School teaching awards. Prof. van der Meulen is a member of the American Society for Bone and Mineral Research, the American and European Societies of Biomechanics, American Society of Mechanical Engineers and the Orthopaedic Research Society. She currently serves as a Deputy Editor of the Journal of Orthopaedic Research and is a member of the Orthopaedic Research and Education Foundation peer review committee.

She has won a number of other prestigious national and international research and teaching awards.