Affiliation: Trinity College, Hartford, CT

Dr. Lindsey Hanson earned her B.S. in Chemistry in 2007 at Duke University, where she discovered the joy of applying the principles and techniques of the physical sciences to biological questions. She continued that approach in her graduate studies under the supervision of Prof. Bianxiao Cui at Stanford University, where she leveraged recent advances in nanoscale fabrication to develop probes of cellular function. Following her graduation with a Ph.D. in Biophysical Chemistry from Stanford in 2014, she pursued postdoctoral research at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, where she investigated the effect of pressure on the optical properties of nanoscale materials with Prof. Paul Alivisatos. Since 2017, she has been an assistant professor of Chemistry at Trinity College, where her research group focuses on the understanding the interconversion of mechanical forces and optical properties of nanomaterials in order to develop novel mechanical sensors and actuators for biological and structural applications.