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tanya.hutter@utexas.edu
Office Location: ETC 9.154

Tanya Hutter

Assistant Professor

Department Research Areas

Advanced Materials Science and Engineering
Biomechanical and Biomedicine Engineering
Nano and Micro-scale Engineering
Thermal Fluids Systems and Transport Phenomena

Research Interests

Nanoporous materials, nano-photonics, waveguide optics, optical spectroscopes and microfluidics for chem/bio-sensors and medical diagnostics.

Bio

Dr. Tanya Hutter is an Assistant Professor in the Walker Department of Mechanical Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin. Her research interests lie in the fields of emerging molecular sensing technologies, nanomaterials, microfabrication and nanophotonics with applications in environmental and industrial sensing, homeland security and medical diagnostics.

She also has a strong interest in technology commercialization and entrepreneurship. Alongside her academic career she co-foundered two startups in the fields of nanophotonic sensing and MedTech, and regularly mentors scientists-entrepreneurs.

Educational Qualifications

  • B.Sc., Chemical Engineering, Ben-Gurion University, 2007
  • M.Sc., Materials Science and Engineering, Tel Aviv University, 2009
  • Ph.D., Physical Chemistry, University of Cambridge, 2013

Select Awards & Honors

  1. L’Oréal-UNESCO for Women in Science Fellowship UK (2016)
  2. Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (2022)
  3. NSF CAREER Award (2024) 
  4. Outstanding Teaching Award (2024)
  5. Advisor of the Year Award (2025)

Related Websites

https://sites.utexas.edu/hutter/

Select Publications

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