Christopher Madl, Ph.D.

Principal Investigator

  • Assistant Professor, Materials Science and Engineering

  • Core Faculty, Center for Precision Engineering for Health (CPE4H)

  • Secondary Faculty, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering

Education and Training:

  • B.A., Engineering Sciences, Harvard University, 2012

  • M.S., Engineering Sciences, Harvard University, 2012

  • Ph.D., Bioengineering, Stanford University, 2017

  • Postdoctoral Fellowship, Stem Cell Biology, Stanford University, 2022

Selected Honors and Awards:

  • NIH R35 Maximizing Investigators' Research Award (MIRA)

  • NIH K99/R00 Pathway to Independence Award

  • Life Sciences Research Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship

  • Siebel Scholars, Class of 2017

Postdoctoral Fellows

  • Ping Zhou, Ph.D.

    Ph.D., Chemistry, Biochemistry, and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Bern, Switzerland, 2022

    M.S., Inorganic Chemistry and Biochemistry, Shanghai Normal University, China, 2018

    zhping@seas.upenn.edu

  • Veronica Hildalgo-Alvarez, Ph.D.

    Ph.D., Bioengineering, University of East Anglia, UK, 2020

    M.Sc., Biotechnology, University of Leon, Spain, 2013

    hvero@seas.upenn.edu

  • Tae Yoon Kwon, Ph.D.

    Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, KAIST, 2024

    M.S., Mechanical Engineering, KAIST, 2019

    tykwon@seas.upenn.edu

Doctoral Students

  • Andre Roots

    Ph.D. Student in Bioengineering

    2023 NSF GRFP Fellow

    B.S., Cellular and Molecular Biology, Hampton University, 2022

    amoroots@seas.upenn.edu

  • Haiying Hu

    Ph.D. Student in Materials Science and Engineering

    M.S., Molecular and Biological Chemistry, EPFL, 2022

    B.S., Macromolecular Materials and Engineering, Sun Yat-Sen University, 2020

    haiyhu@seas.upenn.edu

  • Lauren Brown

    Ph.D. Student in Bioengineering

    2023 NSF GRFP Fellow

    B.S., Biomedical Engineering, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2023

    lbrownl@seas.upenn.edu

  • Albert Liu

    Ph.D. Student in Bioengineering

    B.S., Chemical Biology and Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2023

    liuac@seas.upenn.edu

  • Yuran Wang

    Ph.D. Student in Materials Science and Engineering

    M.S.E., Materials Science and Engineering, University of Pennsylvania, 2024

    B.S., Materials and Nanosciences, University of Waterloo, 2022

    B.E., Nanomaterial and Technology, Beijing Jiaotong University, 2022

    wyuran@seas.upenn.edu

  • Zichen Gao

    Ph.D. Student in Materials Science and Engineering

    M.S.E., Bioengineering, University of Pennsylvania, 2025

    B.E., Materials Science and Engineering, University of Pittsburgh, 2023

    B.E., Materials Science and Engineering, Sichuan University - Pittsburgh Institute, 2021

    gzc@seas.upenn.edu

Masters Students

Undergraduate Students

Four-Legged Members

  • Curie Madl

    Post-dog

  • Zeiss Madl

    Underdog

Lab Alumni

 

Masters Students

 

Adeola Dosunmu, M.S.E., Bioengineering, 2024

Ying Guo, M.S.E., Materials Science and Engineering, 2025

Puyuan Liu, M.S.E., Materials Science and Engineering, 2025

 

Undergraduates

 

Eli Harrison, B.A., Biochemistry, 2024

Alan Han, B.S.E., Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, 2025

 

Summer Students

 

Ryan Brewington, HS Student, 2023

Elliot Lee, HS Student, 2024

Piseth Koy, CEMB REU Student, 2024

Joslynn Ngov, HS Student, 2025

Ranvir Gil, HS Student, 2025

Remy Carlson, CEMB REU Student, 2025

Ariel Wison-Grey, Visiting Undergraduate, 2025