Maureen L. Mulvihill

Biography

Dr. Maureen L. Mulvihill, Ph.D. co-founded Actuated Medical, Inc. in 2006 and serves as its Chief Executive Officer, President and Director. In December 2006, Dr. Mulvihill founded PRII with 3 partners to integrate smart motion components into innovative medical devices. She has been working in the field of piezoelectric materials since 1989. Prior to PRII, she spent 2.5 years as Director of Research and Development at Micromechatronics, Inc., where she gained extensive experience in the day-to-day management of a small business. From 1998 to 2004, Dr. Mulvihill was the Program Manager and Principal Investigator on over 16 Phase I, II and III SBIRs at Xinetics Inc. an adaptive optics company in Massachusetts. During her tenure at Xinetics, her team developed a cryogenic deformable mirror using piezoelectric actuators for NASA programs such as James Webb Space Telescope and Terrestrial Planet Finder (TPF). Dr. Mulvihill has 18 years expertise in smart actuation technologies such as piezoelectric and 11 years Small Business Operations, co-started 2 small businesses. She managed over $10M SBIR Ph I, II and III Contracts (at current & previous SBs). She serves as the Vice Chairman of TechQuestPA Advisory Board. In October 2002, Dr. Mulvihill received a NASA Technology Innovation Recognition award for "Low Temperature Deformable Mirror Technology" (MFS-31634-1). Her excellent managerial skills meeting deliverables, schedule and budget on this program was commended by the JPL acquisition staff representative. In 1997 and 1998, Dr. Mulvihill was an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow working at the Max-Planck-Institut für Metallforschung Stuttgart, Germany. In 1991, she was a visiting scientist at Sophia University in Tokyo, Japan. She has experience in fields such as broad temperature range actuator and transducer device development, ferroelectric single crystal growth and device design, cryogenic electrostrictive composition development, cut and bond actuator assembly, cofired actuator fabrication, cryogenic device testing, Zygo optical measurement, planarization coatings, microelectronic substrates materials, photolithography, automated electron back scattered diffraction, transmission and scanning electron microscopy, materials characterization and testing procedure documentation, government grant writing and small business management. Dr. Mulvihill holds an Adjunct Associate Professor position at Penn State University's Materials Research Institute. Dr. Mulvihill received her Ph.D. in Materials from the Pennsylvania State University in 1996.

Research Interest

 Business