Hi, I'm Anna! You can reach me at annaneu@seas.upenn.edu.

I am a doctoral candidate in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania, where I am advised by Daeyeon Lee and Robert Riggleman. I expect to defend my thesis at the end of 2024! 

My current research involves molecular modeling of the thermodynamics and infiltration kinetics of multiphasic polymer nanocomposites. I use a variety of techniques including self-consistent field theory (SCFT), molecular dynamics (MD), and theoretically informed Langevin dynamics (TILD). 

Prior to my PhD I earned a B.S. in Chemical-Biological Engineering from MIT, where I worked in the lab of Daniel Anderson, optimizing nanoparticle platforms for the delivery of mRNA. Between undergraduate and graduate school, I worked at Voyager Therapeutics as an upstream process development engineer, optimizing adeno-associated virus (AAV) vectors for gene therapy. 

Grants & Fellowships

NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP); 2021-2024

Discover ACCESS Allocation MAT230002 (Role: PI); 2023-2024

Explore ACCESS Allocation CHM210018 (Role: PI); 2023-2024

XSEDE Allocation CHM210018 (Role: PI); 2021-2022

XSEDE Allocation TG-DMR150034 (Role: Collected preliminary data; wrote section on proposed polymer nanocomposite work); 2021-2022

XSEDE Expert Mentoring Producing Opportunities for Work, Education, and Research (EMPOWER) Grant; Spring 2022

XSEDE EMPOWER Grant; Fall 2021