Jennifer Lewis
Hansjorg Wyss Professor of Biologically Inspired Engineering; Jianming Yu Professor of Arts and Sciences
Engineering
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Jennifer has made pioneering contributions to the programmable assembly of soft functional, structural, and biological materials. These novel architected materials may find potential application in printed electronics, optical and structural metamaterials, soft robotics, and 3D vascularized tissues and organs. Jennifer and her research team have developed new classes of soft functional inks for pen-on-paper electronics, flexible electronics, and 3D antennas. They have also demonstrated a new route for creating shape-morphing architectures, known as biomimetic 4D printing. Finally, they have recently developed a multi material 3D bioprinting method that enables the creation of thick vascularized tissues and 3D organs-on-chip. Her work on microscale 3D printing was highlighted as one of the “10 Breakthrough Technologies” by the MIT Technology Review, while her bioprinting research was named “one of the top 100 science stories” by Discover Magazine. To underpin these efforts, she leads a large, multidisciplinary research group that brings together fundamental expertise in soft matter, microfluidics, and additive manufacturing. Given her broad range of research, she is active in most of the Wyss Institute Focus Areas: Adaptive Material Technologies, Bioinspired Robotics, Biomimetic Microsystems, Systems Biology, and Programmable Nanomaterials. Jennifer is the Hansjörg Wyss Professor of Biologically Inspired Engineering at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. She earned a Sc.D. in Ceramic Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She has received numerous distinctions, including an election to the National Academy of Engineering, the NSF Presidential Faculty Fellow Award, the Brunauer Award from the American Ceramic Society, the Langmuir Lecture Award from the American Chemical Society, and the Materials Research Society Medal. She is a Fellow of the American Ceramic Society, the American Physical Society, the Materials Research Society, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a member of the National Academy of Inventors. She serves on the Editorial Advisory Boards of Advanced Functional Materials and Soft Matter. She has authored more than 150 papers and thirty patents. She is a co-founder of two companies that are commercializing technology from her lab.
Expertise
Materials
Soft MatterSurface and Interface Science
Science and Engineering Education

Salata Institute Sponsored Projects

The Salata Institute is committed to supporting research that promises to make a real-world impact on the climate crisis. The Climate Research Clusters Program and Seed Grant Program deliver on this commitment by funding new and interdisciplinary climate research that address the many dimensions of the climate challenge.

Seed Grant: Carbon-Negative Building Insulation: Algae Foam

Outside professional activities

Outside Professional Activities

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Outside Professional Activities For Jennifer Lewis
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AcousticaBio, Inc
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Autodesk, Inc.
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Azul 3D, Inc.
Membership on a scientific or other advisory board
Desktop Metal, Inc.
Consulting
Desktop Metal, Inc.
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Desktop Metal, Inc.
Membership on a scientific or other advisory board
Mooji Meats, Inc
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National Science Foundation (NSF)
Membership on a scientific or other advisory board
National Science Foundation (NSF)
Paid external reviewer
Texas A&M University
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The MITRE Corporation
Consulting
Trestle Biotherapeutics, Inc.
Membership on a scientific or other advisory board
Voxel8
Inventorship/Authorship on Intellectual Property (license/royalties)
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