UCSB Bioengineering Department is proud to announce that Dr. Carolyn Mills has joined the department in Winter ‘24 as our newest Assistant Professor!
Dr. Mills began her career here at UCSB, earning her B.S. in Chemical Engineering in 2013. As an undergraduate, she worked with M. Scott Shell studying peptide self-assembly by employing atomistic simulations.
She earned her PhD in Chemical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2019. She worked in Professor Bradley Olson’s laboratory on self-assembly and high-throughput processing of fusion protein materials. During her tenure at MIT, she studied as a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow (NSF-GRFP) and was recognized as a finalist in the Excellence in Graduate Polymer Research session at the AlChE National Meeting in 2018.
Afterward, she would go to Northwestern University to complete her Postdoctoral work with Professor Danielle Tullman-Ercek. Her research focused on self-assembling protein nanoreactors with a focus on how they can benefit metabolic engineering applications. While completing this work, she would organize the inaugural Context, Community, and Connections Symposium (C3S). The seminar’s goal was to shine a spotlight on the research accomplishments of those holding underrepresented identities in Northwestern University’s chemical engineering, chemistry, and materials science research community.
If you are interested in Dr. Mill’s research or joining her lab, please click the link below.
