Markita Landry

Markita Landry is an associate professor in the department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley. She received a B.S. in Chemistry, and a B.A. in Physics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and a Ph.D. in Chemical Physics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Additionally, she has held interim research positions at the Biophysics Institute at the Technical University of Munich, and at the center for nanobiosciences at Osaka University.

Her current research centers on the development of label-free sensors using nanoparticle-polymer composites, and engineered peptides for plant bioengineering. She has been awarded over 30 early career awards from the NARSAD foundation, the Beckman Foundation, and the Burroughs Wellcome Fund, among others.

August 2016