She earned a B.S. from the Johns Hopkins University, an M.S. from U.C. Berkeley, and a Ph.D. from Harvard University. Prior to joining the faculty at Yale, she was an assistant professor of Mechanical Engineering at Purdue University for four years. Kramer-Bottiglio currently serves as an associate editor of Frontiers in Robotics and AI: Soft Robotics, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, and IOPscience Multifunctional Materials. She is the recipient of the NSF CAREER Award, the NASA Early Career Faculty Award, the AFOSR Young Investigator Award, the ONR Young Investigator Award, and was named to Forbes’ 2015 “30 under 30 list.”