Whitney C. Blocher McTigue, PhD, earned her BS in chemical engineering at Clarkson Univ. in 2015 and her PhD in chemical engineering from the Univ. of Massachusetts Amherst in 2020. As a graduate student under Professor Sarah Perry, she focused on using sequence-controlled polypeptide-based complex coacervates to stabilize encapsulated proteins for the thermo-stabilization of vaccines. She completed a postdoc under Professor Charles Sing in the Dept. of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering at the Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign investigating the simulation and modeling of polymers to better understand the kinetics and mechanisms of depolymerization. Blocher McTigue is now an assistant professor in the Dept. of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering at Lehigh Univ. Her goal is to combine her experimental expertise and newfound knowledge in utilizing polymers for biomedical applications.