Associate Professor Jeanne Stachowiak

The University of Texas at Austin, USA

Dr. Jeanne Stachowiak completed her doctoral work at the University of California, Berkeley in 2008 under the supervision of Professor Daniel Fletcher.  She served as a Senior Member of the Technical Staff at Sandia National Laboratories from 2008 to 2011, where her independent research program explored basic biophysical questions and practical applications of lipid membrane materials and systems. Dr. Stachowiak has served as a faculty member in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin since January 2012. She was promoted to Associate Professor with tenure in fall 2018. Through quantitative molecular-scale measurements and the design of biomimetic materials, her research program aims to elucidate the physical basis of cellular membrane organization and to design biologically-inspired materials and systems for biomedical applications.