Jennifer Lewis
Jennifer A. Lewis is a professor and researcher in Materials Science and Engineering. She is a professor at Harvard University where she teaches in the school of Engineering and Applied Science and is a core faculty member at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering.
Education
Lewis graduated from the University of Illinois with Honors in 1986 and earned an Sc.D. from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1991.
Research
Lewis has made pioneering contributions to the directed assembly of soft functional materials. Her work involves microfluidics, materials synthesis, complex fluids, and robotic assembly to design functional materials.
Lewis has received many awards including the NSF Presidential Faculty Fellow Award (1994), the Burnett Teaching Award (1994), the Schlumberger Foundation Award (1995), the Brunauer Award from the American Ceramic Society, the Materials Research Society Medal, and the Langmuir Lecture award from the American Chemical Society.
Lewis joined the faculty of UIUC in 1990. She is a professor at Harvard University in the school of Engineering and Applied Science as well as a faculty affiliate with the Beckman Institute.
Lewis worked together with a research team consisting of S Brett Walker, Michael Bell, Analisa Russo, and Nancy Beardsly to create a prototype of Circuit Scribe in 2013.