She received her Ph.D. in 2000 from Harvard University for research on extensional rheology of polymer solutions. Prior to joining the faculty at Carnegie Mellon University in 2003, she worked at Solutia, Inc., a major manufacturer of polymer films and coatings, and she completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Harvard University in microfluidics and complex fluids. Dr. Anna is a faculty member in the Center for Complex Fluids Engineering and a courtesy faculty in the Department of Physics. She has received a National Science Foundation CAREER Award and the George Tallman Ladd Research Award in the College of Engineering at CMU.