Jessica O. Winter is a Distinguished Professor in the William G. Lowrie Dept. of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and past Associate Director of the Center for Emergent Materials, an NSF Materials Science and Engineering Center (MRSEC) at The Ohio State Univ. She received her BS from Northwestern Univ., after which she spent two years at Intel in process engineering. She then completed her MS and PhD at the Univ. of Texas at Austin. She is a global leader in nanobiotechnology and nanomanufacturing, and is a Fellow of AIChE, the Biomedical Engineering Society, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering, and the Royal Society of Chemistry. She is an associate editor for Materials Advances and the Journal of Materials Chemistry B. She is also a co-founder and Chief Scientific Officer of Core Quantum Technologies, a company delivering nanoparticle reagents for cancer diagnostics. She is a passionate advocate for entrepreneurship and commercialization of academic research. She has spoken before congressional committees on these topics multiple times and has been published by The Hill.