Danielle J. Mai graduated from the University of Michigan and earned her MS and PhD in Chemical Engineering from the University of Illinois (2016), where she was an Illinois Distinguished Fellow and a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow. She conducted postdoctoral research at MIT, where she won an Arnold O. Beckman Postdoctoral Fellows Award to engineer hydrogels for biosensing and selective bioseparations. She began as an Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering and James and Anna Marie Spilker Faculty Fellow at Stanford University in 2020. Danielle uses molecular-scale biopolymer engineering to create materials with novel function and structure. The Mai Lab integrates precise biopolymer design with multiscale experimental characterization to advance biomaterials development and to enhance fundamental understanding of soft matter physics.