Jenna Anne Ott (JE-nuh AHT | she/her/hers) was a PhD student in Chemical and Biological Engineering. She obtained her undergraduate degree from UCSB in Chemical Engineering. Jenna did her undergraduate research in Samir Mitragotri’s lab, where she studied nanoparticles as drug vehicles in co-culture microfluidic devices. At Princeton, she studied nanoparticle and bacteria transport in mucus. She then moved to a postdoctoral position at the University of Delaware, working with Kevin Solomon and Mark Blenner.

Jenna was born and raised in the Bay Area with her tortoise, Peanut. Her greatest passion is pursuing equality for women in engineering; at UCSB, she was founder and president of the sorority for women in engineering, the Phi Sigma Rho Alpha Xi Chapter. She worked to make a similar impact at Princeton University.