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Ph.D. in Biophysics, Harvard University (2022);
Medical Engineering and Medical Physics (MEMP), Health Science and Technology between Harvard and MIT (2022)

B.S. in Materials Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2015)
B.S. in Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2015)

BIOGRAPHY

Christina M. Tringides is a tenure-track assistant professor in Materials Science and NanoEngineering, and a core member of the Neuroengineering Initiative (NEI) at Rice, and joined July 2024. She earned her B.S. degrees in physics and in materials science and engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 2015, and spent one year as a Fulbright Scholar and Swiss Government Excellence Scholar at the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne before starting her PhD in 2016.

Her PhD work was done in the laboratory of Professor David Mooney (Harvard, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences), and her degree came from Harvard Biophysics and the Medical Engineering Medical Physics program between Harvard and MIT in May 2022. Afterwards, Christina moved to ETH Zürich, where she was an ETH Postdoctoral Fellow, with Professor Janos Vörös (D-ITET, Institute of Biomedical Engineering). Her research focuses on developing new materials and neurotechnologies to interface with the nervous system, from the cell to organ levels, and for both in vivo and in vitro applications.