Albena Ivanisevic
Army Research Office, NC State
Engineering of Functional, Stable, Biotic/abiotic Interactions
Bio
Albena Ivanisevic earned her B.S. in Chemistry from Drake University in 1996 and her Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of Wisconsin in Madison in 2000. She was an NIH postdoctoral fellow at Northwestern University from 200-2002 and began her independent faculty career at the Purdue University in 2002 where she earned tenure. Ivanisevic moved to North Carolina State University in 2011 as a professor in the Materials Science Department and a University Faculty Scholar. She has co-authored more than 100 peer-reviewed articles on surface functionalization, patterning and characterization with a focus on biomedical and bioelectronics applications. Since April 2020 Dr. Ivanisevic has been serving as the program manager for the Biotronics Program at the Army Research Office.