Rachel A. Segalman is the Edward Noble Kramer Professor and Department Chair of Chemical Engineering at University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB).

Her laboratory works on semiconducting block polymers, polymeric ionic liquids, and hybrid thermoelectric materials.

[5] Her family moved to Albuquerque, New Mexico, where as a high schooler she did research at Sandia National Laboratories.

[7] After completing her Ph.D., Segalman was a Chateaubriand postdoctoral fellow at the Ecole Européenne de Chimie, Polymères et Matériaux working under Georges Hadziioannou.

[3] Segalman's research focuses on understanding and controlling the self-assembly, structure, and properties of functional polymers.