Meet the board

Hannah Boyce
Vice President
White Group

Hannah joined the board in 2023 as Vice President. She has a passion for creating community and support for womxn in engineering through events with GWiChE and is a member of GSAB, the department DEI committee, and GSC-X.  She is in the White lab working on characterizing phosphoproteomic signaling to better understand tumor-immune cell communication and develop better cancer treatments.

Marieke Eugenie De Bock
Secretary

Marieke joined the board in 2024 as secretary. She enjoys getting to know womxn in engineering and has been actively part of creating female communities at her undergraduate STEM university. She is excited about organizing events that support and connect the female graduate students in ChemE!

Lexy LeMar
Treasurer
Kroll Group

Lexy joined the board in 2022 as co-treasurer. She is excited to help organize and plan events that foster community among the womxn in ChemE. She is also currently a member of GSC-X. In the Kroll group, she studies the reaction pathways of key organic radical intermediates in the atmospheric aqueous phase.

Devosmita Sen
Webmaster
Olsen Group

Devosmita joined the board in 2022 as webmaster. She is excited to help organize events to facilitate interaction between womxn across the department. In the Olsen group, she studies the relationship between topology and property in polymer networks to better inform new material design.

Alexis Hocken
Support chair
Olsen Group

Alexis joined the board in 2022 as a support chair. She is excited to help organize events and help foster interactions between womxn in the ChemE department. She is also a member of GSC-X. In the Olsen group, Alexis is developing new mechanisms for mechanical recycling of plastics.

Charlotte Dai
Support Chair
Olsen Group

Charlotte joined the board in 2023 as the support chair. She is excited to provide support and connection for womxn graduate students in chemical engineering at MIT through GWiChE. She is a member of the Olsen lab and her research focuses on understanding and designing sequence-defined polymers.

Simar Kaur Mattewal
Support Chair
Smith Group

Simar joined the board in 2022 as support chair. She looks forward to foster meaningful womxn networks in MIT through events. She believes in developing community based support systems wherever she goes. She is co-advised in the Smith and Karnik labs and works on developing carbon-based membranes for advanced chemical separations.

Mary Elisabeth Ehmann
Webmaster & Support Chair
Galloway Group

Mary joined the board as a support chair in 2024. She is excited to help coordinate efforts to create an inclusive environment for womxn in ChemE at MIT. Mary is a member of the Galloway lab and her research focuses on reprogramming primary cell fates for central nervous system therapeutics

Smita Mankar
Postdoc coordinator
Olsen Group

Smita joined the board as a support chair in 2024, specifically serving as the coordinator for postdocs. She believes that there is a need to provide networking events for women postdoctoral scholars in Chemical Engineering (ChemE). Drawing from her previous experience as a social event organizer during her PhD days, Smita is confident that she can leverage this platform to benefit postdoctoral women at ChemE. In her research, she is developing renewable polymer materials for various applications.

Zhouhang (Amelia) Dai
Support Chair
Bazant Group

Amelia joined the board as a support chair in 2024. She is passionate about building inclusive communities and developing sustainable energy solutions. In the Bazant group, she is working to better understand electrolyte flow and distributions in large-format battery cells.