Victoria Muir

Victoria Grace Muir is a PhD candidate at University of Pennsylvania under the advisement of Dr. Jason Burdick. Her research focuses on the development of granular hydrogel biomaterials and their application to tissue repair and bioprinting. She has received both an NSF and a Tau Beta Pi Fellowship to support her graduate studies. Victoria graduated from the University of Delaware Dept. of Chemical Engineering in 2018 as a Eugene D. DuPont Scholar. At Delaware, Victoria pursued research in polymeric nanoparticles for nucleic acid delivery under the advisement of Dr. Thomas H. Epps, III and Dr. Millicent O. Sullivan. For her undergraduate research efforts, Victoria received a Goldwater Scholarship in 2016. Victoria is highly involved in service to her scientific and local community. She received the inaugural Poddar Award for Rising Star in ChemE from AIChE in 2019, and she received the Penn Prize for Excellence in Graduate Teaching in 2020.