Michelle Calabrese PhD

Michelle A. Calabrese is an assistant professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science at the University of Minnesota. She received her BS in Chemical Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania in 2012. She completed her Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering at the University of Delaware in 2017, where she focused on developing new techniques in rheology and neutron scattering to understand the flow properties of complex fluids. Following her postdoc in chemical engineering at MIT, she joined the faculty at UMN in mid-2019. Her research group employs rheology, soft matter physics, and polymer and nanoparticle synthesis to address a range of fundamental and applied problems in drug delivery and soft materials engineering. Her recent recognitions include the 3M Non-tenured Faculty Award, NSF CAREER Award, and NIH NIDCD Early Career Research Award.