Kaitlin Landy

Kaitlin completed her bachelor’s degree in chemistry with minors in biochemistry and sustainability studies at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities, followed by her Ph.D. in chemistry advised by Prof. Chad Mirkin at Northwestern University. She is now a postdoctoral scholar at University of Chicago, where she is advised by Prof. Stuart Rowan and Prof. Margaret Gardel. Kaitlin’s research is inspired by hierarchical assembly in nature and aims to repurpose biopolymers to design materials with new structures and functions, from colloidal crystals that repurpose DNA as both a blueprint and construction material to trainable soft materials that mimic the actin cytoskeleton.