Megan Engel

Dr. Megan Engel is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at the University of Calgary. She earned her DPhil in theoretical physics from the University of Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar and conducted postdoctoral research at Harvard University as a Schmidt Science Fellow. Her research examines how nature utilizes physics principles for biological self-assembly and molecular energy transduction, with applications in designing synthetic nanomachines.

Research interests include:

• Protein and nucleic acid self-assembly
• Machine learning for non-equilibrium biological systems
• Rational design of synthetic nanomachines