Neha received her B.S. in Bioengineering from Rice University, her Ph.D. in Bioengineering from the University of Pennsylvania, and completed her postdoctoral training as a NASA Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard University and Massachusetts General Hospital. Her research group uses techniques in membrane biophysics, microscopy, and membrane reconstitution to assemble artificial cells. Her lab asks fundamental questions about how membrane properties affect membrane protein activities and they design new technologies that harness membrane biophysical changes to execute complex chemical behaviors, like reaction initiation or molecular release.