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Maria Jose Alonso

María José Alonso Fernández is a Spanish pharmaceutical scientist, professor at the University of Santiago de Compostela, who pioneered nanomedicine and drug and vaccine delivery in Spain.

Maria Lukatskaya

Maria R. Lukatskaya is a Swiss-based energy materials scientist who joined ETH Zurich in 2019 and is known for her 2013 Science paper on MXene charge storage.

Marian E. Gindy

Marian E. Gindy is a pharmaceutical scientist and chemical engineer who is Vice President of Small Molecule Science and Technology at Merck and a 2025 National Academy of Engineering member.

Mariano Campoy‐Quiles

Mariano Campoy-Quiles is a Spanish materials scientist and CSIC Research Professor at the Institute of Materials Science of Barcelona, working on organic solar cells and thermoelectric generators.

Marija D. Ilic

Marija D. Ilic is a power-systems engineer at MIT known for hierarchical control of electric grids and elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2021.

Marija Drndic

Marija Drndić is an American-based experimental condensed matter physicist and nanoscientist at the University of Pennsylvania, known for developing TEBAL lithography and graphene nanopores that detect single DNA molecules.

Mario Affatigato

Mario Affatigato is an American physicist at Coe College known for research on the properties of oxide glasses and for receiving a 1998 Presidential Early Career Award.

Mario Caironi

Mario Caironi, born 1978 in Bergamo, is an Italian electrical engineer at the Italian Institute of Technology in Milan working on printed and edible organic electronics.

Mario Salvadori

Mario Salvadori (1907–1997) was an Italian-born structural engineer and applied mathematician who taught at Columbia from 1940, consulted on the Manhattan Project, and wrote Why Buildings Stand Up.

Marion Jokl Ball

Marion Jokl Ball is a South African-born American scientist in biomedical and health informatics, holding the Raj and Indra Nooyi Endowed Distinguished Chair in Bioengineering at UT Arlington.

Mark A. Reed

Mark A. Reed, also known as Mark Reed, was an American electrical engineer and Yale professor who coined "quantum dot" and made the first single-molecule conductance measurement.

Mark Blenner

Mark Blenner is an American chemical and biological engineer who received the PECASE award and built a CRISPR editing toolkit for the oleaginous yeast Yarrowia lipolytica.

Mark Brongersma

Mark L. Brongersma is a materials scientist and nanophotonics researcher at Stanford University who coined the term "plasmonics" and studies metasurfaces that control light at the nanoscale.

Mark C. Hersam

Mark C. Hersam, also known as Mark Hersam, is an American materials scientist and nanotechnologist at Northwestern University, a MacArthur Fellow known for nanoelectronic materials and memtransistors.

Mark C.M. van Loosdrecht

Mark C.M. van Loosdrecht (born 1959) is a Dutch environmental biotechnologist at Delft University of Technology, known for wastewater treatment processes including SHARON, Anammox, and Nereda.

Mark D. Hollis

Mark Dexter Hollis (1908–1998) was an American sanitary engineer and Public Health Service rear admiral who directed the Communicable Disease Center, forerunner of the CDC.

Mark G. Adamiak

Mark G. Adamiak is an American electric power systems engineer in digital protective relaying, synchrophasor measurement, and substation automation, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2012.

Mark G. Benz

Mark G. Benz is an American metallurgist and National Academy of Engineering member who spent 40 years at the GE Corporate Research and Development Center.

Mark Isalan

Mark Isalan is a synthetic biologist and Professor of Engineering Biology at Imperial College London, known for synthetic gene networks in bacteria and zinc-finger gene therapy work.

Mark J. O'Malley

Mark J. O'Malley is an Irish power-systems engineer, Leverhulme Professor of Power Systems at Imperial College London, known for integrating wind energy into power grids.

Mark Kendall (engineer)

Mark Kendall is an engineer and inventor best known for inventing the Nanopatch, a needle-free vaccine-delivery patch, and co-founding Vaxxas from the University of Queensland in 2011.

Mark Kryder

Mark Kryder is an electrical engineer and CMU Professor recognized for his leading work on Perpendicular Recording in hard disk drives and for formulating Kryder's Law.

Mark Miodownik

Mark Miodownik is a materials scientist and engineer, Professor of Materials and Society at University College London, director of its Institute of Making, and author of Stuff Matters.

Mark R. Pinto

Mark R. Pinto is an American electronics engineer and National Academy of Engineering member known for co-developing the PISCES semiconductor simulator and serving as CTO of Applied Materials.

Mark R. Prausnitz

Mark R. Prausnitz is an American chemical and biomedical engineer at Georgia Tech known for developing microneedle patches that deliver drugs and vaccines through the skin without needles.

Mark R. Wiesner

Mark R. Wiesner is an environmental engineer and James B. Duke Distinguished Professor at Duke University, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2015 for membrane water treatment and nanomaterials research.

Mark S. Lundstrom

Mark S. Lundstrom is an American electrical engineer at Purdue University whose research on nanoscale transistor physics supported 10-nanometer device design, and who founded the nanoHUB simulation platform.

Mark T. Bohr

Mark T. Bohr (born 1953) is an American semiconductor process engineer who spent his career at Intel, leading development of strained silicon, high-k metal gate, and tri-gate transistors.

Mark T. Swihart

Mark T. Swihart is a SUNY Distinguished Professor of chemical and biological engineering at the University at Buffalo, known for high-rate production of light-emitting silicon nanoparticles.

Mark V. Morkovin

Mark V. Morkovin, also known as Mark Vladimir Morkovin, was an aeronautical engineer and professor at the Illinois Institute of Technology known for the Morkovin hypothesis and receptivity.