Nanette Boyle is the interim department head and associate professor in chemical & biological engineering at Colorado School of Mines. The Boyle Laboratory focuses on the application of chemical engineering principles, systems biology and synthetic biology to interrogate biological systems with an emphasis on photosynthetic systems. She received her B.S.E. in chemical engineering from Arizona State University and her PhD in chemical engineering from Purdue University, where she was an NSF graduate research fellow. Nanette joined the faculty at Mines in 2013 after completing two postdoctoral fellowships at CU Boulder and UCLA. She is a DOE early career program awardee, a Scialog Fellow for Negative Emission Science and most recently, a Fulbright Scholar in The Netherlands.