Prof. Wyatt Shields

Wyatt Shields is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at the University of Colorado Boulder. He received his B.S. from the University of Virginia in 2011 and Ph.D. from Duke University in 2016. He performed a brief postdoc at NC State on active matter and a second postdoc at Harvard University on cell-based immunotherapies. He started his research group at CU Boulder in 2020 and has gained recognition for his work with awards such as the NSF CAREER award, ONR young investigator award, and NIH MIRA award. In 2022, he became a Packard Fellow in Science and Engineering and a Pew Biomedical Scholar. His group focuses on developing field-responsive and active particles as vehicles for next-generation biosensing, drug delivery, and immunoengineering.