Dr. Greta Babakhanova

Dr. Greta Babakhanova is a NIST-NRC Postdoctoral Research Fellow working with her advisor, Dr. Carl G. Simon Jr., in the Biomaterials Group at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (MD, USA).

She completed her PhD in Chemical Physics from the Advanced Materials and Liquid Crystal Institute, Kent State University in 2019. Her dissertation research was performed in the lab of Dr. Oleg D. Lavrentovich where Greta worked on characterizing twist-bend nematic liquid crystals using electro- and magneto-optical methods as well as electron microscopy techniques. During her graduate work she also developed stimuli-responsive elastomer coatings with pre-determined surface topographies. She currently works in tissue engineering/regenerative medicine field, where her objective is to develop assays for measuring cell viability in three-dimensional scaffolds.