About Caitlin

I started my training here at the University of Toronto to pursue a degree in Chemical Engineering (ChemE 1T6) and play defence for the Varsity Blues Women’s Hockey team. After my time at U of T, I moved to California to pursue my PhD in Prof. Eric Appel’s lab at Stanford University. Following my PhD, I moved back to a wintery climate and joined the labs of Prof. Jeffrey Karp & Prof. Yuhan Lee at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, MA. I am excited to move home to Toronto to pursue a position as an Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering at U of T starting in July 2023! I believe it’s important to have activities you enjoy outside of lab, is in the absence of hockey while in California I took up cycling and golf to take advantage of the nice weather. When I’m not in the lab I enjoy riding my bike, cooking, baking or eating my food experiments.

Honours, Awards, and Scholarships

• 2022 Schmidt Science Fellow, 2022

• JDRF Postdoctoral Fellowship (awarded and declined), 2022

• UChicago & UCSD MRSEC Rising Star, 2022

• American Chemical Society PMSE Future Faculty Scholar, 2021

• Stanford Centennial Teaching Assistant Award, 2020

• Best Trainee Short Talk, Stanford DRC Frontiers Symposium, 2020

• Stanford BioX Bowes Fellowship, 2019-2021

• NSERC Postgraduate Scholarship-Doctoral, 2018-2021

• NSERC Alexander Graham Bell Canada Graduate Scholarship-Doctoral (awarded and declined), 2018

• NSERC Canada Graduate Scholarship – Masters (awarded and declined), 2016

• Centennial Thesis Award, University of Toronto, Chemical Engineering, 2016