Dr. Mills joined the RPI faculty in 2015. She received her PhD in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Michigan. Before RPI Dr. Mills was a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of New Materials and Biosystems at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in Germany. She also served as a Lecturer in the Advanced Materials Program at the University of Ulm in Germany. Dr. Mills has received a number of awards including the prestigious NSF Graduate Research Fellowship and an Alexander von Humboldt Foundation research fellowship. Her work has been published in journals including Lab on a Chip, Journal of Materials Research, International Journal of Materials Research, Journal of Materials Research and PLoS ONE.