Paulina Rincon-Delgadillo

Paulina obtained her bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering from the Western Institute of Technology and Higher Education (ITESO, Guadalajara, Mexico). She then worked in Mexico for five years before moving to the United States to pursue a PhD. From 2003 to 2005, she worked at SIG Beverage Services Mexico as an account manager (technical sales for the beverage industry). In 2005, she joined Hilasal Mexicana, a textile company, as a development engineer. Her responsibilities included formulation and process design and testing of new products in the development laboratory and dyeing and finishing areas. Finally, before starting her graduate studies, Paulina worked in Professor Paul Nealey’s group to obtain experience in a research environment.

In the fall of 2009, Paulina joined the chemical engineering graduate program at University of Wisconsin-Madison. After two years, she moved to Leuven, Belgium, as part of collaboration between the Nealey group and IMEC. During this time, she obtained a master’s degree from University of Wisconsin and became a graduate student of the Institute for Molecular Engineering at the University of Chicago. During her time in Belgium, she also got a graduate degree in electrical engineering from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven.

Paulina got her PhD from the Institute for Molecular Engineering (now the Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering) in June 2014 and became the first-ever engineering graduate from the University of Chicago. After graduation, she returned to Belgium and joined IMEC as a research engineer.