Professor Heather J. Kulik is a tenured Associate Professor in the Departments of Chemical Engineering and Chemistry at MIT. She received her B.E. in Chemical Engineering from the Cooper Union in 2004 and her Ph.D. from the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at MIT in 2009. She completed postdoctoral training at Lawrence Livermore and Stanford, prior to joining MIT as a faculty member in November 2013. Her research has been recognized by an Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award, DARPA Young Faculty Award and Director’s fellowship, NSF CAREER Award, a Sloan Fellowship in chemistry, and a Hans Fischer Senior Fellowship from the Technical University of Munich, among others. Her research focuses on computational chemistry modeling with density functional theory and machine learning for the discovery of new materials.