Tristan Clemons completed his PhD studies in 2014 at the University of Western Australia. At the completion of his PhD, he was awarded an Australian Biomedical Research Fellowship from the National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia to investigate nanomaterials for wound healing and scar treatments following burn injuries. In 2018, he relocated to Chicago to join the laboratory of Prof. Samuel Stupp at Northwestern University as a post-doctoral research fellow. He has won several awards including the Exxon Mobil Western Australian (WA) Student Scientist of the Year for his PhD work, the WA Young Tall Poppy Science Award and he was acknowledged as a CAS SciFinder Future Leader of Chemistry in 2018. In Fall 2022, Clemons joined the School of Polymer Science and Engineering at The University of Southern Mississippi. Click here to find out more about his work and the future of the Clemons Lab.