Kristi Anseth is a Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering and Associate Faculty Director of the BioFrontiers Institute at the University of Colorado at Boulder. She currently holds the Tisone Professorship and is a Distinguished Professor. Dr. Anseth came to CU-Boulder after earning her B.S. degree from Purdue University, her Ph.D. degree from the University of Colorado, and completing post-doctoral research at MIT as an NIH fellow.

Her research interests lie at the interface between biology and engineering where she designs new biomaterials for applications in drug delivery and regenerative medicine. Dr. Anseth’s research group has published over 420 peer-reviewed manuscripts, and she has trained more than 150 graduate students and postdoctoral associates.

She is an elected member of the National Academy of Engineering (2009), the National Academy of Medicine (2009), the National Academy of Sciences (2013), the National Academy of Inventors (2016) and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2019).  Dr. Anseth has received more than 50 major awards and given 60 honorary lectureships.  Her recent recognitions include the L’Oreal-UNESCO for Women in Science Award in the Life Sciences (2020) and the VinFutures Special Prize for Women Innovators (2024).

Dr. Anseth has served on the Board of Directors and as President of the Materials Research Society, Board of Directors for the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, the Board of Governors for Acta Materialia, Inc, Chair of the Board of Trustees for the Gordon Research Conferences, the NIH Advisory Council for NIBIB, as Alum (1998) and Chair of the NAE U.S. Frontiers of Engineering (FOE) meetings, and Member and Chair of the NAE Bioengineering Section’s Peer Committee (2016-2019), as well as the Vice Chair, Chair, and Past Chair of the Section from 2019-2025.