Prof. Belcher attended the University of California – Santa Barbara for her undergraduate and graduate degrees. She obtained her B.S. in Creative Studies in 1991 and her PhD in Chemistry in 1997, unraveling the ways in which proteins can direct the material properties of minerals. Belcher joined the MIT faculty in 2001 as Professor in the Departments of Biological Engineering and Materials Science & Engineering.
The Belcher lab seeks to understand and harness nature’s own processes in order to design technologically important materials and devices for energy, the...Read more
