Christina D. Smolke
smolke@cheme.caltech.edu

  Christina is an Assistant Professor in the Chemical Engineering Department at Caltech. She graduated from USC with a B.S. degree in Chemical Engineering with an emphasis in Biology in 1997. She then attended the University of California at Berkeley and earned her Ph.D. in 2001 in Chemical Engineering under Professor Jay D. Keasling. Before starting her position at Caltech, Christina conducted a two year postdoctoral fellowship in the Cell Biology Department at UC Berkeley under the guidance of Professor Karsten Weis.

Curriculum vitae
     
Awards and Honors:
 
  California Institute of Technology
   2006 NSF CAREER Award
   2005 Beckman Young Investigator Award
   2004 Technology Review’s TR100, Top 100 Young Innovators of the World
 
  University of California at Berkeley
   2002 Life Sciences Research Foundation Fellowship (Declined)
   2001-2003 National Institute of Health Postdoctoral Fellowship
   2001 Graduated Summa Cum Laude
   2000-2001 UC Dissertation Year Fellowship
   2000-2001 Shell Doctoral Fellowship
   1999-2000 Chemical Engineering Departmental Citation for Outstanding Teaching
   1998 DOW Prize for Excellence in Teaching
   1998-1999 University Award for Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor
   1997-2000 National Science Foundation Fellowship
   1997 Tau Beta Pi Fellowship No. 584 (Declined)
   1997 Eugene Cota – Robles Fellowship (Declined)
   1997 Phi Kappa Phi Fellowship Honorable Mention
 
  University of Southern California
   1997 Graduated Summa Cum Laude
   1997 Salutatorian
   1997 Wall of Scholars
   1997 Emma Josephine Bradely Bovard Award
   1997 Chemical Engineering’s Outstanding Student Award
   1997 Senior Recognition Award
   1997 School of Engineering’s Outstanding Service Award
   1996 Golden Key Peat Marwick Junior Scholarship
   1996 Unocal Scholarship
   1995 Southern California Section AIChE Outstanding Junior Award
   1996 Student Chapter AIChE Outstanding Junior Award
   1995-1996 Excellence Award in Biochemistry
   1994 Emerging Leaders Program
   1993-1994 Outstanding Achievement Award in General Chemistry
   1993-1997 Merit Research Award
   1993-1997 Trustee Scholar Award
   1993 Dean’s Scholarship
 
Affiliations:
  American Chemical Society
  American Institute of Chemical Engineers
  Center for Biological Circuit Design (Caltech)
  Institute for Biological Engineers
  Kavli Nanoscience Institute (Caltech)
  RNA Society

 
Department of Chemical Engineering, California Institute of Technology