About
Pamela (Pam) Cai is a chemical engineer and materials scientist whose research has focused on polymer physics, biomaterials, mucus biophysics, and sustainable biopolymer-based materials. She earned a BS in chemical engineering from MIT, completed a PhD in chemical engineering at Stanford in May 2023, and her personal site identifies her as a 2024 Arnold O. Beckman Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Chicago. More recent public sources also list her on Until's team page as a Senior Polymer Scientist.
Areas of interest
biomaterialspolymer physicsbiophysicsmucus and respiratory diseasesustainable materialsbiopolymersSTEM educationmentorshipwomen in STEM