Julie Champion is an Associate Professor in the School of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology and a member of the Institute for Bioengineering and Biosciences and the Bioengineering Program. She earned her B.S.E. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Michigan in 2001. Dr. Champion completed her Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering at the University of California Santa Barbara in 2007 as a National Science Foundation graduate fellow under the advisement of Dr. Samir Mitragotri. She was a National Institutes of Health postdoctoral fellow from 2007-2009 at the California Institute of Technology in the lab of Dr. David Tirrell. Professor Champion’s current research focuses on design and self-assembly of functional nanomaterials made from engineered proteins for applications in immunology, cancer and biocatalysis. Dr. Champion has received a BRIGE award from the National Science Foundation, the Georgia Tech Women in Engineering Faculty Award for Excellence in Teaching, and the Georgia Tech BioEngineering Program Outstanding Advisor Award.