Christine Ortiz, Ph.D.

Dr. Christine Ortiz is a higher education leader, professor, engineer, scientist, former dean, corporate board director, foundation trustee, and entrepreneur. Dr. Ortiz has over 25 years of experience in higher education and a passion for advancing emerging, cross-disciplinary, integrative socially-directed science and technologies towards sustainable and equitable societal outcomes. As the Morris Cohen Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, she is an internationally recognized researcher in the field of biological and bio-inspired materials. Dr. Ortiz has given invited lectures in over 40 countries, has over 200 scholarly publications with more than 8800 citations, supervised the research projects of more than 100 students from 10 different academic disciplines, and received more than 30 national and international honors. Dr. Ortiz has led large cross-disciplinary teams and research grants and served on over 50 scientific advisory boards and expert panels.