Rina Tannenbaum

After graduating from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology with a doctorate in chemical engineering and catalysis, Rina Tannenbaum continued her postdoctoral education until she felt ready to start a career in academia. Tannenbaum, who is currently employed as a Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Regenerative Medicine at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, worked as a postdoctoral associate at the McGill University in Montreal, for a year before she joined the University of Minnesota's staff in the late 1980s. She later served the University of Minnesota as an Adjunct Professor and Assistant Professor, as well as a Professor for the Department of Chemical Engineering at the Israel Institute of Technology in 2005. Throughout the many years of her career, Rina Tannenbaum has worked with students, has traveled internationally and worked for several different academic institutions.

Rina Tannenbaum has also received accolades for her contributions to the field of science and engineering. Most recently, she was the keynote speaker at The Minerals, Metals, & Materials Society's annual meeting in San Diego, in 2011. Rina Tannenbaum was also granted an award for outstanding contribution from the Society for Biomaterials during its 2011 annual meeting in Florida.

As a testament to Rina Tannenbaum's influence in her field and her knowledge of the field of science and engineering, she has been the principal author of more than 100 published articles in scientific journals and in books over the past few decades. Rina Tannenbaum is most interested in such research areas as inorganic reactions in viscous media, hierarchical materials design, and soft condensed matter and complex fluids, and she has additionally taught courses involving chemical applications of group theory and advanced inorganic chemistry during her years as a professor.