Jennifer A. Lewis

Jennifer Lewis is the Hansjörg Wyss Professor of Biologically Inspired Engineering at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and a Core Faculty Member at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering. She has made pioneering contributions to the programmable assembly of functional, structural, and living matter. These materials may find potential application in printed electronics, optical and structural metamaterials, soft robotics, and 3D vascularized tissues and organs. Lewis leads a large, multidisciplinary research group that brings together fundamental expertise in soft matter, microfluidics, and additive manufacturing.

She is a fellow of the Materials Research Society, the American Physical Society, and the American Ceramics Society and received the Presidential Faculty Fellow Award from the National Science Foundation (1994), the Brunauer Award from the American Ceramic Society (2003), the Langmuir Lecture Award from the American Chemical Society (2009), and the James Prize in Science and Technology Integration from the National Academy of Sciences (2025).

Lewis earned a Sc.D. in Ceramic Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In addition to her membership in the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, she is an elected member of the National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, and the National Academy of Inventors. She has co-founded four startups and currently serves on multiple Scientific Advisory Boards.