Professor Siegel received his ScD degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1984. From 1984 to 1998 he was on the faculty of the School of Pharmacy at the University of California, San Francisco. He moved to the University of Minnesota in 1998, and was Head of the Department of Pharmaceutics from 1999 to 2009. He is also on the faculty of the Department of Biomedical Engineering.