Prof. Monica L. Ohnsorg is an Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She leads an interdisciplinary research lab conducting science at the interface of polymer chemistry, biomaterials, and extracellular matrix engineering. She completed her training as a postdoctoral fellow in 2025 under the advisement of Prof. Kristi S. Anseth in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering and BioFrontiers Institute at the University of Colorado Boulder. In 2021, she earned her PhD in Chemistry from the University of Minnesota, where she was an NSF Graduate Research Fellow co-advised by Profs. Theresa M. Reineke and Frank S. Bates. Monica completed her ACS Certified B.S. in Chemistry with minors in Engineering and Mathematics at Hope College in 2016.
The Ohnsorg lab leverages expertise in polymer science and engineering to rationally design, synthesize, characterize, and apply synthetic biomaterials to answer biologically-relevant questions and solve medically-relevant problems.