Alexandra Rutz

Alexandra Rutz

Assistant Professor

Biomedical Engineering

  • Phone
    314-935-2348
  • Office
    Whitaker Hall, Room 390D
  • Lab location
    Whitaker Hall, Room 235

Education

PhD, Northwestern University, 2016
MS, Northwestern University, 2014
BS, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, 2011

Expertise

Advances bioelectronics using materials and fabrication-based approaches

Research

Professor Rutz's research focuses on the engineering of electronic tissues using materials design and fabrication-based approaches. Our goal is to achieve robust biointerfaces and long-lived function in bioelectronics and other medical devices.

Biography

Professor Alexandra Rutz joined Washington University in St. Louis in March 2021. After earning a PhD in biomedical engineering from Northwestern University in 2016, she was a Marie Skłodowska-Curie and Whitaker International postdoctoral fellow at the University of Cambridge (UK) in the Division of Electrical Engineering.

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