ERIKA MOORE, PHD
PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
Assistant Professor, Rhines Rising Star Professor of Materials Science & Engineering, University of Florida (July 2020- Present)
Provost’s Postdoctoral Fellow, Johns Hopkins University, Biomedical Engineering (July 2018- July 2020)
Ph.D., Duke University, Biomedical Engineering (2013-2018)
BS, Johns Hopkins University, Biomedical Engineering (2009-2013)
Email: moore.erika[at]ufl.edu
Connect on: LinkedIn
NOTABLE AWARDS INCLUDE:
2023 Early Career Award, EDGE in Tech Athena Awards
2023 Emerging Scholar, Diverse: Issues In Higher Education’s
2022 BMES Rita Schaffer Young Investigator Award, BMES
2022 3M Non-Tenured Faculty Award, 3M
2022 N.I.H. R35, Maximizing Investigators' Research Award (MIRA)
2022 Constellation Prize for Financial Equity in Engineering, Constellation Prize
2021 Keystone Fellow, Keystone Symposia, Class of 2022
2020 Forbes 30 Under 30, Class of 2021- Healthcare
2020 KL2 Scholar, National Center for Advancement of Translational Science via UF Clinical Translational Science Institute
2018 Rhines Family Rising Star Professorship (an endowed assistant professorship), The University of Florida
2018 Provost’s Postdoctoral Fellowship, The Johns Hopkins University
2018 BME Award for Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation, Duke University Department of Biomedical Engineering
2017 M.I.T. Rising Star, MIT Rising Stars in Biomedical Engineering and Science
2017 Trustee, Duke University Board of Trustees
2016 NextProf Scholar, The University of Michigan NextProf for Engineering
2013 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow, National Science Foundation
2013 Pre-doctoral Ford Foundation Fellow (awarded but declined), Ford Foundation Fellowship Program
2013 James B. Duke Fellowship, The Graduate School of Duke University
2013 Dean’s Graduate Fellowship, The Graduate School of Duke University
2013 Inducted into Tau Beta Pi National Engineering Honor Society
2012 U.N.C.F./Merck Undergraduate Research Fellowship, U.N.C.F./Merck Science Initiative
2009 Hodson-Gilliam Success Scholar, Johns Hopkins University