title: Sarah Bergbreiter
text: # Sarah Bergbreiter
  
  Sarah Bergbreiter is a professor of Mechanical Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University, previously a professor at the University of Maryland. Her research specifically has focused on microrobotics, with projects influencing the medicine and consumer electronic spheres. She has given TED Talks highlighting her micro robots that can jump over 80 times their height. One such micro robot is the 4 millimeter "flea". She has won multiple awards for her work including the DARPA Young Faculty Award in 2008, the NSF CAREER Award in 2011, and the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) Award in 2013. Bergbreiter received her B.S.E degree in electrical engineering from Princeton University, and her M.S. and Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley.
  
  