Associate Professor
University of Washington
Neda Bagheri is Associate Professor of Biology and Chemical Engineering at the University of Washington Seattle. She earned her doctorate in Electrical Engineering from the University of California in Santa Barbara. Her focus on control theory and dynamics piqued her interest in biology. After completing a postdoc in Biological Engineering at MIT, she joined the Chemical & Biological Engineering faculty at Northwestern University where she founded her lab. In 2019, she was recruited to both the University of Washington and the Allen Institute for Cell Science. In recognition for her research accomplishments and vision, Bagheri was awarded a National Science Foundation CAREER Award (2017), a Senior Moulton Medal (2020), and she was honored as a Distinguished Speaker for the Accelerated Discover Forum at IBM Research-Almaden (2018) as well as for the Mindlin Foundation (2019). She serves on multiple scientific advisory and editorial boards, guiding the frontier of multidisciplinary research.