Blanca H. Lapizco-Encinas is a professor an founding faculty at the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the Rochester Institute of Technology. Her current research efforts are focused on developing electrokinetic-based microdevices tha answer the needs of a wide array of applications from cell assessments for clinical/biomedical applications to food safety and environmental monitoring. Her research work has been funded by the NSF and other funding agencies in the U.S. and Mexico. She has received research awards from the Mexican Academy of Sciences and the L’OREAL for Women in Science program. She recently received the 2022 Service Award from the AES Electrophoresis Society, the 2021 Board of Trustees Scholarship Award at Rochester Institute of technology. She serves as Editor-in-Chief for the Journal ELECTROPHORESIS, published by Wiley, and has served as Vice-President and Councillor for the AES Electrophoresis Society. She has published 130+ peer-reviewed research articles, conference proceedings, and book chapters. Dr. Lapizco-Encinas received her B.S. and M.S. degrees in chemical engineering in Mexico, and her Ph.D. also in chemical engineering from the University of Cincinnati. Prior to joining RIT, she was a post doctoral researcher at Sandia National Laboratories and held positions at Tennessee Tech. in the U.S., and Tecnológico de Monterrey and CINVESTAV-Monterrey in Mexico.