Jennifer L. Ross is an American physicist who is Professor and Chair of the Department of Physics at Syracuse University.
Ross became interested in science as a young person and spent her childhood playing with a chemistry set.
[2] Ross was awarded an National Institutes of Health postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania.
[3] To study the mechanisms that underpin biological processes, she developed single-molecule imaging to investigate microtubule motor proteins.
[4][6] Ross investigated the processes that underpin cell division, in particular, the assembly of microtubules into mitotic spindles.