Markita del Carpo Landry, UC Berkeley
Markita is an Associate Professor Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering & Neuroscience at UC Berkeley.
The Landry Lab’s work develops synthetic bio-mimetic nanocomposites to impart control over nanomaterial interactions with biological systems.
Markita earned her bachelor’s degrees at the University of North Carolina, where she majored in both chemistry and physics. She moved to the University of Illinois for doctoral studies and earned a Ph.D. in chemical physics. Markita was a National Science Foundation postdoctoral scholar at MIT and performed research at both the Technical University of Munich and Osaka University.
In 2016, she was appointed to the faculty at Berkeley. She heads the Landry Lab on Optical Nanomaterials & Single-Molecule Research Group.