milliron and her research group moved to ut austin in 2014. in addition to her current faculty appointment at ut austin, milliron is a co-principal investigator for the center for dynamics and control of materials a national science foundation materials research science and engineering center (mrsec). as part of the mrsec, milliron is also the faculty co-leader for the internal research group on "reconfigurable and porous nanoparticle networks".