Detailed Biography:

Dr. Tatiana Segura is a native of Bogotá, Colombia. She received her diploma from the Escuela Pedagogia Experimental (EPE), an experimental educational school in Bogotá, Colombia. Dr. Segura began her scientific training at the University of California, Berkeley where she received a BS in Bioengineering and a minor in Chemical Engineering. She later obtained her Ph.D in Chemical Engineering at Northwestern University. Dr. Segura pursued postdoctoral research training at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne, Switzerland. She joined the Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Department at UCLA in July 2006. Dr. Segura has received the NSF CAREER Award, "Hydrogels for Matrix-Tethered Gene Delivery."