Twitter: @mach3cruz
ORCID
LinkedIn
Margaret received her BS in Psychology (2011) from University of California, Davis, and MEng in Mechanical Engineering (2020) from Rochester Institute of Technology and Biomedical Engineering (2021) from Cornell University. As an undergraduate, she studied the physiological and cognitive basis of autism at UC Davis MIND Institute with focus on prevalence in military families. She later worked as a technician in characterizing PM 2.5 and PM10 particles for Air Quality Group at Crocker Nuclear Laboratory, fabricating semiconductor wafers for extreme ultraviolet lithography for the Center for X-Ray Optics at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and developing a quantum dots-embedded microneedle patch for vaccine tracking and delivery at Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research. During her Masters, she studied the biomedical applications of carbon nanostructures and natural vesicles sourced from cells or biofluids such as milk. Additionally, she served in the United States Army. Margaret is interested to learn about the nature and behavior of biological systems at micro- and nanoscale. She is currently studying methods to bioprint a booster liver with emphasis on the lobule microarchitecture.