AdrianneRosales

About

The Rosales Groups studies and develops dynamic polymer systems to engineer complex biological microenvironments. In processes such as disease or tissue development, there is an active interplay between cells, the extracellular matrix, and precise chemical and physical signals that change over time. Engineered materials that capture these dynamic properties can shed insight to biological mechanisms and address problems in human health. Using principles from chemical engineering, materials science, and biology, they pursue the following research goals:

• Fundamental understanding of polymer structure-property relationships, especially biomimetic and stimuli-responsive polymers
• Development of synthetic hydrogels that actively probe cell-matrix interactions
• Engineering new material platforms for disease models

Educational Qualifications

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Colorado, Boulder (2013–2017)
Ph.D., Chemical Engineering, University of California, Berkeley (2013)
B.S., Chemical Engineering, University of Texas at Austin (2007)

Select Awards & Honors

• Non-Tenured Faculty Award – 3M (2022)
• Dean’s Award, Outstanding Engineering Teaching – Cockrell School of Engineering (2022)
• Rising Star – American Chemical Society Polymers Au (2021)
• CAREER Award – National Science Foundation (NSF) (2021)
• NIH Early Stage Investigator Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award (MIRA) (2020)
• Emerging Investigator – Journal of Materials Chemistry B (2020)
• Young Investigator Award – American Chemical Society (ACS) Polymeric Materials: Science and Engineering (PMSE) (2019)
• Emerging Investigator – Biomaterials Science (2019)
• Professor of the Semester – UT Senate Spring (2018)
• Burroughs Wellcome Fund Career Award at the Scientific Interface (CASI) (2016)

Related Websites

• Rosales Research Group
• Center for Dynamics and Control of Materials: an NSF MRSEC

Select Publications