Dr. Izabela Ciesielska-Wrobel is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Textiles, Fashion Merchandising, and Design at the University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI, USA. She is the Head of the Textile Science Lab. She earned her B.Sc, M.Sc., and Ph.D. in textile technology and textile manufacturing from Lodz University of Technology in Poland. Her current interests revolve around textile technologies, especially knitting, smart textiles, the perception of textiles, the conversion and processing of ocean plastic wastes, technical and protective textiles, high-performance materials, and metal-organic frameworks.