Allison Hubel is an American mechanical engineer and cryobiologist who applies her expertise in heat transfer to study the cryopreservation of biological tissue.
She is a professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Minnesota, where she directs the Biopreservation Core Resource and the Technological Leadership Institute,[1] and is the president of the Society for Cryobiology from 2023 to 2024.
[2] Hubel majored in mechanical engineering at Iowa State University, graduating in 1983.
She continued her studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where she earned a master's degree in 1989 and completed her Ph.D. in the same year.
[2] Hubel is the author of the book Preservation of Cells: A Practical Manual (Wiley, 2017).