Alexandra Rutz
Assistant Professor
- Phone
314-935-2348 - Office
Whitaker Hall, Room 390D - Lab location
Whitaker Hall, Room 235
Education
PhD, Northwestern University, 2016MS, 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 Rutz joins Washington University in St. Louis in March 2021. Prior to joining WashU, she was a Marie Skłodowska-Curie and Whitaker International postdoctoral fellow at the University of Cambridge (UK) in the Division of Electrical Engineering.