Dr. Rebecca Schulman

Biography

Rebecca Schulman is an Associate Professor at Johns Hopkins University, where she is a core researcher at the Johns Hopkins Institute for NanoBioTechnology. She also holds secondary appointments in the Department of Chemistry and the Department of Computer Science. As the Kent Gordon Croft Investment Management Faculty Scholar, Schulman is recognized for her contributions to the field of biomolecular materials and nanostructures. Her research group focuses on developing intelligent adaptive biomolecular materials and smart sensors using DNA nanotechnology, synthetic biology, and techniques from materials science and soft matter physics. Schulman's team works on dynamic self-assembly and automating molecular circuits that respond to chemical information, leading to innovations in smart materials for applications like drug delivery and autonomous micro-robots. She has received several prestigious awards including the Hartwell Individual Biomolecular Research Award and the President’s Early Career Award for Science and Engineering. Schulman earned her bachelor’s degrees in Mathematics and Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1999, followed by a PhD in Computation and Neural Systems from the California Institute of Technology in 2007. She furthered her research as a postdoctoral scholar in the same field at Caltech and as a Miller Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of California, Berkeley.

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