Niki Abbasi is a fifth 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.

Robert (Bob) Graham is the Assistant Director of the National Science Foundation Materials Research Science and Engineering Center based at Harvard University. Bob is a trained physicist. He enjoys playing basketball and volleyball and is an expert at magic tricks. He is originally from Iowa.

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.

Jonghyun Hwang is a second-year Ph.D. student in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Princeton University. He was born and raised in Gangwon, South Korea, and he received a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. At Princeton, he studies soft materials and geometrical patterns that appear on the surface of those soft materials.

Jennifer Lewis is the Hansjörg Wyss Professor of Biologically Inspired Engineering at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and a Core Faculty Member at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering. Jennifer has made pioneering contributions to the programmable assembly of functional, structural, and living matter. She is an elected member of the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, the National Academy of Inventors, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She has co-founded four startups and currently serves on multiple Scientific Advisory Boards.

Samantha McBride is a postdoc in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Princeton University where she studies fluid mechanics for applications in water treatment and environmental engineering. She is originally from Reno, Nevada and did her PhD at MIT. She enjoys sharing her enthusiasm for science through images and videos of cool fluid mechanics phenomena.

Sonia Natalias is the Education Outreach Coordinator for the Princeton Center of Complex Materials, at Princeton University.  She is originally from Spain and has studied in London, UK and Paris, France. In addition to her international administrative skills, Sonia holds a certification as a Recovery Coach.

Janine Nunes is the Director of Education Outreach for the Princeton Center for Complex Materials. She is also a Research Scholar and lecturer in Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering and Chemical & Biological Engineering, respectively. She received her PhD in chemistry from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and BS and MSc degrees from Morgan State University. In her role at PCCM, she works on developing and implementing educational programs in materials science for students, teachers, and the public. 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.

Daniel Steinberg was the Director of Education Outreach for the Princeton Center for Complex Materials. After 22 years, Dan announced his retirement at the end of October 2023. 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.

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. 

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.

Katie Wu is a fourth year graduate student in the department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Princeton University. She received her Sc.B. in Mechanical Engineering from Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. At Princeton, Katie studies fluid mechanics.