Niki Abbasi is a third year graduate student at the department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Princeton University. She received her BEng. and MASc. degrees from Ryerson University in Toronto, Canada. At Princeton, Niki studies fluid mechanics and soft matter.

Bonnie Bassler is the Squibb Professor of Molecular Biology at Princeton University. Her research focuses on the molecular mechanisms that bacteria use for intracellular communication, a process called quorum sensing. She is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, and was awarded Princeton University’s President’s Award for Distinguished Teaching in 2008.

Kōnane Bay is a Presidential Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Princeton University studying living biohybrid polymeric materials. She received her Ph.D. in Polymer Science & Engineering from the University of Massachusetts Amherst and her B.S. in Materials Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Kōnane is originally from Honolulu, Hawaiʻi.

Nikita Dutta is a fifth-year Ph.D. student in Mechanical Engineering at Princeton University studying materials for optoelectronic devices. She was born and raised in the Midwest and first moved to the East Coast to pursue her BS in Physics at Yale University. Since 2019, Nikita has been a fellow at the Education and Outreach Office of the Princeton Center for Complex Materials, where she particularly enjoys working with K-12 students.

Nick Garcia is a Ph.D. candidate in chemistry at Princeton University where he studies the synthesis of complex small molecules. Originally from Oklahoma, he received his B.S. in chemistry from MIT.

Kathryn Hollar is the Director of Community Engagement and Diversity Outreach for the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering & Applied Sciences. She received her PhD in Chemical Engineering from Cornell University and BS degrees in Chemical Engineering and English from North Carolina State University. She works with teachers and students of all ages to increase public engagement in science and engineering.

Janine Nunes is a research scholar and lecturer at Princeton University studying the controlled synthesis and fabrication of microfibers and microspheres using microfluidics. She received her PhD in chemistry from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and a BS and MSc from Morgan State. Janine is originally from Trinidad and Tobago.

Daniel Rosenberg is part of the talented lecture demonstration team in Harvard's Science Center whose creativity is on display each day in these lecture halls to elucidate the principles of science. Daniel Rosenberg is a 1984 Harvard College graduate and a chemist. Daniel has also applied his passion for science in other venues such as the annual Ig Nobel Ceremony held on campus.

Ryan Signora is the Educational Outreach Assistant for the Princeton Center for Complex Materials. He received his Bachelor’s degree in marketing from The College of New Jersey in 2019.

Daniel Steinberg is the Director of Education Outreach for the Princeton Center for Complex Materials. He received his PhD in Geophysics from Binghamton University in 1992, and has worked at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, and at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, where he has remotely steered the Hubble Space Telescope. Dan currently runs many educational programs for students and teachers and the public in materials science.

Howard Stone holds degrees in Chemical Engineering from the University of California at Davis and Caltech. He joined Harvard in 1989 and moved to Princeton University in 2009. His research is in the areas of fluid dynamics, materials science, and applied mathematics. He enjoys teaching and the challenge of thinking about real-world problems.

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Sara Wenzel is the Education and Outreach Programs Coordinator for the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. She received her MLA in Museum Studies from Harvard University Extension School in 2013 and her BA in Art History from Boston University in 2007.