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Dr. Bianca Datta completed her Ph.D. at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2021, where she studied material design and fabrication of bioinspired structural color, and is currently working as a food scientist on novel food materials. She graduated with a B.S.E. and M.S.E. in materials science & engineering at the University of Pennsylvania in 2014, and an S.M. from MIT in 2016. Her research interests include nature-inspired materials design and interfaces, advanced manufacturing and nanotechnology, sustainable materials, and cellular agriculture and plant-based protein.

She formerly worked at Black Sheep Foods on plant-based meat products and was an AAAS Mass Media Fellow at PBS NOVA. She has a strong interest in sustainability, conservation, and circular material systems. She is a former Dissertation Awardee through New Harvest, a current Research Scholar at the Ronin Institute for Independent Scholarship, and an inaugural Research Fellow with Delicious Future, working on sustainable food and consumer behavior. She is also interested in scientific communication and representation for education and public engagement, and volunteers with Farming Hope, 826 Valencia, and the Center for Asian American Media.

Website: https://www.biancadatta.com/

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September 2023