100 km/h kick (due to delays in the transmission of the nervous impulse), or why soccer balls are made of 12 pentagons and 20 hexagons, etc. Folch has used examples from this book to give outreach lectures to high-schools, middle-schools and elementary schools. Introduction to BioMEMS (CRC Press, 2012) covers the whole breadth of Bio-MEMS (Biomedical MicroElectroMechanicalSystems), including classical microfabrication, microfluidics, tissue engineering, cell-based and non-cell-based devices, and implantable systems. This textbook has now been adopted worldwide (~100 departments in 18 countries). For the Love of the Ball (Amazon, 2013) tells the history and methods of FC Barcelona's youth academy. Folch also keeps a related blog site, titled La Ciencia del Fútbol, where he talks about FC Barcelona's present state of affairs with a scientific perspective. Hidden In Plain Sight (MIT Press, 2022) describes the development and use of key microfluidic devices, explaining not only the technology but also the efforts, teams, places, and circumstances that enabled these inventions. Folch also created a large Catalan Poetry Selection. This webpage, originally hosted by M.I.T. and manually typed in 1995 just one year after the World Wide Web started, was, at the time, the first online literary resource of its kind and size in any language. Still widely visited, the selection features 800 poems and 176 Catalan poets spanning ten centuries, including 24 unpublished poets. Media coverage The Folch Lab has been featured in The New York Times (February 2, 2003, Technology section), Science News (February 15, 2003 issue), Physics World (March 2003 issue), Materials Today (April 2003 issue), Photonics Spectra (April 2003 issue), BioPhotonics International (May 2003 issue), Proto (Fall 2008 issue), The Washington Post (October 28, 2008, Health section), UWTV (January 2012), and NTN24 (November 2014). Awards and honors 2000 NSF CAREER Award 2006 NASA Space Act Award. 2014 AIMBE College of Fellows Class of 2015 Exhibits 2009 Art exhibit at the Harborview Medical Center (March 2009). 2009 Art exhibit at the University of Washington's Meany Theater (September 2009September 2010). 2010 Art exhibit at the University of Washington's Allen Library (November 2010March 2011). 2013 Art exhibit at the 2013 Biomedical Engineering Society Meeting (Seattle, October 2013) 2014 Art exhibit at Duke University's 2014 Mahato Memorial References External links Folch Lab official website University of Barcelona alumni 1966 births Living people Spanish bioengineers Spanish biophysicists