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Dr. Kurt Ristroph

Dr. Ristroph is the lab's principal investigator and an assistant professor of agricultural and biological engineering. He earned bachelor's degrees in chemical engineering and classics at Louisiana State University; completed a Ph.D. in chemical engineering and materials science at Princeton; and worked in civil and environmental engineering at Carnegie Mellon University as a Schimdt Science Fellow. He has also spent time researching at Moderna and the Monash Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences.