Trisha Andrew

Trisha L. Andrew, PhD

Department of Chemistry
602 LGRT
710 North Pleasant Street
Amherst, MA 01003-9292

(413) 545-1651
tandrew@umass.edu
www.umass.edu/chemistry/about/directory/trisha-andrew

Professor of Chemistry

Trisha L. Andrew is a Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She directs the Wearable Electronics Lab, a multi-disciplinary research team that produces garment-integrated technologies using reactive vapor deposition. Trisha started her career as an Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Electrical Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, after receiving her Ph.D. from MIT in 2011. She is a David and Lucile Packard Foundation Fellow, a National Academy of Sciences Kavli Fellow, a L’Oréal USA For Women in Science Fellow, and was named as one Forbes’ magazine “30 Under 30” Innovators in Energy.

Current Research

At present, we are actively developing and optimizing designer vapor phase coating chemistries to enable four types of technologies:

  1. Textile triboelectric generators that convert small body motions into stored energy and power body-mounted motion sensors
  2. Wear-, wash- and ironing-resistant conductive cloths that generate heat with a small applied voltage, suitable for pain reduction, temperature regulation and muscle relaxation
  3. Garment-integrated thermoelectric fabrics capable of generating energy from small heat differentials between body surfaces and the ambient environment
  4. Medical gauze-based electrochemical transistors that transduce ion currents and/or biomarker binding events into monitorable electronic signals

Learn more at Andrew Research Group

Academic Background

PhD Organic Electronics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011
BS Chemistry, University of Washington, 2005
BS Electrical Engineering, University of Washington, 2005

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