Sarah L. Perry

Sarah L. Perry is an associate professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Massachusetts Amherst (UMass). Prior to joining the UMass faculty as assistant professor in 2014, Perry was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of California, Berkeley, and the Institute for Molecular Engineering at the University of Chicago.

Perry has received several honors for her work as a researcher and educator, including a CAREER award from the National Science Foundation in 2020, the 3M Non-Tenured Faculty Award (2019-2021), and the Outstanding Teacher Award from the UMass Amherst College of Engineering (2017). She has also been recognized as a student ally and advocate for diversity in the college.

Perry received B.S. degrees in Chemical Engineering (2002) and Chemistry (2003) and an M.S. in Chemical Engineering (2005) from the University of Arizona. She earned her Ph.D. from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in 2010, working on microfluidic platforms for the crystallization and study of membrane protein crystallization.