Emmanouela Filippidi received her B.S. in Engineering with a focus in Biomedical Engineering from Harvard University (2005). It was during this time that she was introduced to research in the laboratory of Prof. David Weitz. She then proceeded to obtain a M.S. in Biomedical Engineering from Boston University (2007) working on the directed assembly of reconstituted silk, which in turn fuelled her desire to learn about the physics of directed- and self-assembly. She completed her Ph.D. in (Soft Matter) Physics at New York University in 2014 under the supervision of Prof. David Pine on the shear-induced organization of colloids, and proceeded for a postdoc to the University of California, Santa Barbara where she worked on mussel adhesion and mussel-inspired dually-bonded polymer networks. She moved to Europe in 2019, as a shared postdoc between the experimental group of Prof. Tony Hyman (Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics) and the theoretical group of Prof. Frank Jülicher (MPI for the Physics of Complex Systems) studying peptide phase separation. In 2020, she will be joining the Department of Materials Science and Technology at the University of Crete as an Assistant Professor.