Dr. Vivian Feig is a materials designer who harnesses chemistry and physics to endow soft matter with unprecedented functionalities that enhance human health. She obtained her B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Columbia University in 2012 and then spent 3 years working with polyolefins at the ExxonMobil Chemical Company. In 2020, Dr. Feig received a PhD from Stanford in Materials Science and Engineering, working with Prof. Zhenan Bao as a National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate (NDSEG) fellow. Her thesis work developed new insights on how to design conducting polymer-based hydrogels to address the challenge of intimately coupling electronics with biological systems. Her work culminated in numerous honors, including the 2022 American Chemical Society (ACS) Global Outstanding Graduate Student in Polymer Science and Engineering award and the 2020 Materials Research Society (MRS) Arthur Nowick Graduate Student Award. Currently, Dr. Feig is a Schmidt Science Fellow training with Profs. Giovanni Traverso and Robert Langer at MIT and the Brigham and Women’s Hospital, where she is developing stimuli-responsive materials to enable long-term drug delivery.