Margaux Pinney

Margaux Pinney will join the University of California, Berkeley as an Assistant Professor of Chemistry starting July 1, 2025. Previously, she served as a Principal Investigator at the University of California, San Francisco, and conducted postdoctoral research at Stanford University. Her work bridges biochemistry and chemical biology, focusing on developing high-throughput methods to study protein function and evolution.

• B.S. in Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Washington (2014)
• M.S. in Medicine, Stanford University (2014–2018)
• Ph.D. in Biochemistry, Stanford University (2014-2021)

Research areas include chemical biology, microfluidics, and enzyme engineering. The Pinney Lab develops microfluidic platforms to measure biochemical constants for thousands of protein variants simultaneously, integrating machine learning for sequence-based functional predictions.

• NIH Early Independence Award (2022)

Her research aims to decode how protein mutations affect biochemical properties, with applications in disease mechanisms, drug resistance, and synthetic enzyme design.