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Christine Payne is the Thomas Lord Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science at Duke University, focusing on understanding how cells interact with nanomaterials. Her research entails fundamental inquiries into nanoparticle-protein interactions and the applied research necessary to comprehend pulmonary responses to inhaled nanoparticles in a manufacturing context. Christine employs an interdisciplinary approach that incorporates materials science, chemistry, biophysics, and lab automation in her work. She teaches courses including Quantum Mechanics and Statistical Mechanics, as well as a unique materials class titled 'Materials Science Science Fiction.' She earned her S.B. in Chemistry from the University of Chicago in 1998 and a Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of California, Berkeley in 2003. In her postdoctoral experience, she was a National Institutes of Health National Research Service Award Fellow at Harvard University from 2003 to 2006. Christine has received multiple accolades, including the NIH Director’s New Innovator Award in 2009 and the DARPA Young Faculty Award in 2011. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry and has served in the Jefferson Science Fellows Program at the U.S. Department of State in the Bureau of International Security and Nonproliferation beginning in 2024.
Department of Biomedical Engineering (MS program)