Rina Tannenbaum

She received her Ph.D. in chemical engineering from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich.

She has performed research in numerous areas, including potential applications of carbon nanotubes, self-assembly, block copolymers, cellulose nanocomposites and tissue engineering.

She has authored more than 150 publications in these fields that were published in top-tier journals, such as those of the American Chemical Society,[1] Wiley[2] and Elsevier .

[3] For her work she has received many awards and was involved in a variety of professional activities.

For example, she was a co-organizer of Symposium Y at the Spring 2001 Materials Research Society Meeting,[4] was a plenary speaker at the Third International Conference on Polymer Behavior (ICPB3) in 2008,[5] and delivered the WISE 10th Anniversary Distinguished Lecture at the University of Southern California in the fall of 2009.