Ashlee N. Ford Versypt

Ashlee Ford Versypt is an associate professor in the Department of Chemical & Biological Engineering at the University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, where she leads the Systems Biomedicine and Pharmaceutics Laboratory. She has received a number of awards for her research, teaching, and service including an NSF CAREER Award, ASEE Chemical Engineering Division Fahien & Martin Awards, AIChE CAST Division Himmelblau Award, and AIChE’s 35 Under 35 Award. During graduate school, she was awarded the Department of Energy Computational Science Graduate Fellowship and the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship. Ashlee earned her bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering from the University of Oklahoma. After graduating from Illinois, she completed a postdoc at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She started her academic career at Oklahoma State University, where she was tenured in 2020 and also received her bachelor’s degree.