Jon Babi

Jon Babi is a postdoctoral scholar in the Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering at the University of Chicago, co-advised by Profs. Matthew V. Tirrell and Yun Fang. Jon completed his PhD at the University of Toronto, working on biomimetic self-assembling polymers in Prof. Helen Tran's group. During his doctoral studies, Jon undertook a research fellowship at the Molecular Foundry in Lawrence Berkley National Labs, developing AFM techniques for characterizing peptoid-based materials. Jon joined the Tirrell and Fang groups in Spring 2026.