Qin (Maggie) Qi @maggieqigroup

Ph.D., Stanford University, 2018
M.S., Stanford University, 2017
B.S., Cornell University, 2013

Dr. Qin (Maggie) Qi joined MIT’s department of chemical engineering as the James R. Mares ’24 Career Development Chair Assistant Professor in Chemical Engineering in January 2022. Her research applies fundamental principles of complex fluids and soft matter to develop precision medicine for human health. She obtained her bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering and operations research at Cornell University in 2013. She received her Ph.D. in chemical engineering with Prof. Eric Shaqfeh at Stanford University in 2018, where she developed a diagnostic model of platelet adhesion and bleeding based on a microhydrodynamic theory of cellular suspensions. She conducted postdoctoral research with Prof. Samir Mitragotri in the Wyss Institute of Biologically Inspired Engineering and the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Harvard University. There she explored the use of macromolecular transport mechanisms for drug delivery and tool development, including transdermal delivery enhanced by ionic liquids and subcutaneous injection tested by an organ-on-a-chip approach. She is a recipient of the NSF CAREER award, a member of the inaugural class of MIT Rising Stars in Chemical Engineering and a mentor for the Texas A&M Science Influencers program.

Curriculum Vitae | Chemical Engineering Faculty Profile

Other affiliations:
Multi-cellular engineered living systems (M-CELS) at MIT

Konstantinos (Costis) Zinelis @KZinelis

MEng, National Technical University of Athens, 2017

MRes, PhD, Imperial College London, 2023

Postdoctoral Associate, Imperial College London and University of Michigan, 2023-2024

Konstantinos Zinelis studies the application of computer simulations to problems in rheology, soft matter and complex fluids, with a particular focus on human health applications. He has obtained his MEng in Chemical Engineering from the National Techinal University of Athens. For his Diploma Thesis he was supervised by Prof Doros Theodorou working on Self-Consistent Field Theory for modelling polymer melts interfaces. In his PhD Thesis at Imperial College London, he was supervised by Prof. Omar K. Matar in collaboration with Prof Gareth H Mckinley at M.I.T, where he was appointed as Visiting PhD student during Fall 2021. He was studying the development of Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) simulations to study the droplet formation in viscoelastic interfacial flows. During his PhD, he has also been an Enrichment Phd Placement student in the Alan Turing Institute in UK with basic training in data-driven modelling methods. After his PhD completion, he was appointed as Postdoctoral Associate at Imperial College London with Prof. Omar K. Matar in collaboration with Prof. Jesse Capecelatro in University of Michigan, for studying with three-dimensional simulations the airflow-induced breakup of saliva filaments related to infectious disease transmission. He has also worked as Research Consultant in collaboration with Prof. Omar K. Matar for Unilever UK in Spray-nozzle characterisation and droplet impact with phase-change modelling with applications in Food Industry. Konstantinos’ current project focuses on the development of multiscale biomechanics modelling of nanoparticles-cell membrane systems under dynamic conditions (i.e shear-induced effects). Outside of research, Konstantinos enjoys to travel, explore the nature, try new food tastes, read on how the human brain works, and also play Basketball and Soccer.

Andrea Goertzen

Graduate Student

B.Eng (Chemical Engineering), University of Nebraska, 2023. Andrea Goertzen joined the Qi Lab in January 2024 where she focuses on developing retina-on-a-chip models to better understand disease and potential therapeutic strategies. Prior to MIT, she earned her bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Nebraska in 2023. During her undergraduate career, she worked with Professor Rajib Saha to build computational metabolic models of healthy and diseased cells to identify targets for treatment. She enjoys spending time in the outdoors and is passionate about engineering outreach. agoertz@mit.edu

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