Associate Professor
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Dr. Jeannine Coburn, PhD, is an Associate Professor and principal investigator of the Functional Biomaterials Lab at Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Central Massachusetts. She earned her bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst in 2006 and her PhD in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering from Johns Hopkins University in 2012 as an NIH NRSA predoctoral fellow. After completing an NIH NRSA postdoctoral fellowship at Tufts University under the guidance of Prof. David L. Kaplan, she joined the faculty at WPI in 2016 with a joint appointment in Chemical Engineering. Dr. Coburn has received several awards for her academic excellence, including the 2020 WPI Sigma Xi Outstanding Junior Faculty Award and the 2021 WPI Board of Trustees' Award for Outstanding Academic Advising. In addition, she was awarded the NSF CAREER Award (2023).