Julie Champion is the William R. McLain Endowed Term Professor and Director of the Graduate Program in the School of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology. She earned her B.S.E. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Michigan and Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering at the University of California Santa Barbara. She was a NIH postdoctoral fellow at the California Institute of Technology. Dr. Champion is a fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering and has received awards including American Chemical Society Women Chemists Committee Rising Star, NSF BRIGE Award, Georgia Tech Women in Engineering Faculty Award for Excellence in Teaching, and Georgia Tech BioEngineering Program Outstanding Advisor Award. Professor Champion’s current research focuses on design and self-assembly of functional materials made from engineered proteins for applications in immunology, cancer, and biocatalysis.