Dr. Christopher M. Madl currently serves as an Assistant Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Pennsylvania. He received his B.A. and M.S. in Engineering Sciences from Harvard University in 2012. He obtained his Ph.D. in Bioengineering from Stanford University in 2017. His research interests include hydrogel cell culture platforms, protein-engineered biomaterials, polymer chemistry, disease modeling, neural tissue engineering, and muscle stem cell biology.