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Lorraine Leon, Ph.D.

  • Postdoctoral Researcher (Alumni 2017)
    Current: Faculty member, University of Central Florida

  • Contact: lorraineleon@uchicago.edu

Lorraine Leon obtained her BS in chemical engineering and a minor in mathematics from the University of Florida in 2004. She received her PhD in chemical engineering from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York in 2011 under the supervision of Professor Raymond Tu. Currently, she is a postdoctoral researcher working with Professor Matthew Tirrell and is appointed at the Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering at the University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory. Her research interests include molecular self-assembly, hybrid materials, biomineralization, bottom-up peptide design, drug delivery, and interfacial crystallization. Currently, she is investigating the self-assembly of polyelectrolytes into coacervate core micelles as potential delivery vehicles for peptide-based therapeutics and microRNA.