Nikki Reinemann
Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Affiliate Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering
Nikki Reinemann is a researcher and faculty member in biomedical engineering at the University of Mississippi.
Research Interests
- Understanding emergent cytoskeletal mechanics
- Group dynamics of molecular motors
- Mechanisms of the tubulin code
- Broadening participation in STEM fields
Biography
Nikki Reinemann is an Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Affiliate Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering at the University of Mississippi. She received her B.S. in Chemical Engineering and B.S. in Chemistry from UM and her Ph.D. in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering from Vanderbilt University. She started the Molecular Biophysics and Engineering Laboratory at UM in 2018 where her group works at the interface of engineering, physical chemistry, and molecular biology to understand how life and disease propagate up from the molecular scale. Her work has been funded by the National Science Foundation, an American Heart Association Career Development Award, and a National Institutes of Health Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award. She was named a 2022 Young Innovator in Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering by the Biomedical Engineering Society and received the 2024 Mississippi Academy of Sciences Early Career Award. As a woman in engineering, she is passionate about broadening participation in STEM. She is the director of the Ole Miss Nanoengineering Summer REU Program and is part of multiple campus committees and organizations to help foster equitable research opportunities for students from diverse backgrounds.
Education
Ph.D. Chemical Engineering, Vanderbilt University (2018)