Dr. Crawford joined the University of Central Florida (UCF) as an Assistant Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, and Biionix member as part of UCF’s Faculty Cluster Initiative in fall 2017. Dr. Crawford also has courtesy appointments in the Department of Chemistry and the Nano Science and Technology Center at UCF. At UCF Dr. Crawford’s research focuses on identifying new materials (usually polymers) for sensing applications that are environmentally sustainable. Prior to UCF she studied bioelectronics as a postdoc with joint affiliation at the Northwestern University Center for Bio-integrated Electronics, and the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Department of Materials Science and Engineering, both within the research group of Prof. John A. Rogers from 2015-2017. Dr. Crawford completed her Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of Maryland, College Park in 2015 with research emphasis on the development of thermoplastic polyolefin block-copolymer elastomers using living coordination polymerization. She received an M.S. in Chemistry from NC State in 2011 (advisor: Chris Gorman); there she studied the growth and degradation rates of biodegradable polymer brushes designed for antifouling applications. She graduated with B.S. degrees in Chemistry and Psychology from the University of North Carolina, Charlotte in 2009. Dr. Crawford is a contributing author on several peer-reviewed articles and has received more than 12 awards related to research and teaching.