Samira  Anbari graduated from Sharif University of Technology,Iran with a Bachelor’s of Science in Chemical and Biological Engineering (2013). After finishing her Master’s Degree in Bioengineering from Tehran University, she joined Lehigh University in 2016. Currently, she works in Javier Buceta’s group and her research is focused on a Systems Biology approach towards the understanding of the collective behavior of cells. She is a P.C Rossin College of Engineering doctoral fellow and has been selected as the recipient of the 2018 Kenneth Earhart Award.