About

Somin is an Assistant Professor at the University of Michigan. She received B.S. and M.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering at the University of California, Davis and a Ph.D. degree in Bioengineering at the University of California, Berkeley as a Siebel Scholar. She then completed her postdoctoral studies at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory as an NIH Ruth L. Kirschstein Postdoctoral Fellow. She is the recipient of the AFOSR YIP Award and the NSF CAREER Award. Her research focuses on scale- and material- dependent optical phenomena to develop new bionanotechnologies to interface with biological systems and directly probe biological function. Her vision is to develop precision technologies to improve human health. https://bioplasmonics.org/

Education

UC Berkeley

Ph.D. , Bioengineering

Class of 2010

Awards & Publications