About
Dr. Helen Zha received her B.Sc. (2007) from MIT and her Ph.D. (2013) from Northwestern University in Materials Science & Engineering. After pursuing postdoctoral research at Eindhoven University of Technology and UC Berkeley, Helen started as a tenure-track assistant professor at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in the Department of Chemical & Biological Engineering in 2018. Helen has received an NSF CAREER Award, published 22 peer-reviewed journal articles to date (Google Scholar Page), and currently sits on the Advisory Board of Materials Innovation Initiative.
Research
Other Focus Areas
Biomimetic and Bio-inspired Materials, Nanostructured Soft Matter, Molecular Engineering and Self-assembly, Nanomedicine, Materials for Energy and Sustainability
Publications
The following is a selection of recent publications in Scopus. Helen Zha has 27 indexed publications in the subjects of
Materials Science,
Engineering,
Biochemistry,
and Genetics and Molecular Biology.
Alexander Connor, Caleb Wigham, Yang Bai, Manish Rai, Sebastian Nassif, Mattheos Koffas, R. Helen Zha
Metabolic Engineering Communications
, 16
, 2023
.
Devan L. Puhl, Jessica L. Funnell, Tanner D. Fink, Anuj Swaminathan, Martin Oudega, R. Helen Zha, Ryan J. Gilbert
Acta Biomaterialia
, 155
, 2023
, pp.370-385
.
Mirco Sorci, Tanner D. Fink, Vaishali Sharma, Sneha Singh, Ruiwen Chen, Brigitte L. Arduini, Katharine Dovidenko, Caryn L. Heldt, Edmund F. Palermo, R. Helen Zha
ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces
, 14
, 2022
, pp.25135-25146
.
Alexander J. Connor, Runye H. Zha, Mattheos Koffas
Current Opinion in Biotechnology
, 69
, 2021
, pp.263-272
.
Amrita Sarkar, Cody Edson, Ding Tian, Tanner D. Fink, Katherine Cianciotti, Richard A. Gross, Chulsung Bae, R. Helen Zha
Biomacromolecules
, 22
, 2021
, pp.95-105
.
Alexis M. Ziemba, Tanner D. Fink, Mary Clare Crochiere, Devan L. Puhl, Samichya Sapkota, Ryan J. Gilbert, R. Helen Zha
ACS Biomaterials Science and Engineering
, 6
, 2020
, pp.1321-1332
.
Robert Centore, Filbert Totsingan, Anna Christina Amason, Samantha Lyons, R. Helen Zha, Richard A. Gross
Biomacromolecules
, 21
, 2020
, pp.493-507
.
Amrita Sarkar, Alexander J. Connor, Mattheos Koffas, R. Helen Zha
Materials
, 12
, 2019
.
Katerina G. Malollari, Peyman Delparastan, Caroline Sobek, Shraddha J. Vachhani, Tanner D. Fink, R. Helen Zha, Phillip B. Messersmith
ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces
, 11
, 2019
, pp.43599-43607
.
R. Helen Zha, Peyman Delparastan, Tanner D. Fink, Joschka Bauer, Thomas Scheibel, Phillip B. Messersmith
Biomaterials Science
, 7
, 2019
, pp.683-695
.
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