Nikki Reinemann
Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Affiliate Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering
Nikki Reinemann is a researcher and faculty member in biomedical engineering at the University of Mississippi.
Research Interests
- Emergent cytoskeletal mechanics
- Group dynamics of molecular motors
- Tubulin code mechanisms
Biography
Nikki Reinemann is an Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Affiliate Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering at the University of Mississippi. She received her B.S. in Chemical Engineering and B.S. in Chemistry from UM and her Ph.D. in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering from Vanderbilt University. She started the Molecular Biophysics and Engineering Laboratory at UM in 2018 where her group works at the interface of engineering, physical chemistry, and molecular biology to understand how life and disease propagate up from the molecular scale. Her work has been funded by an American Heart Association Career Development Award, NSF CAREER award, and a National Institutes of Health Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award. Among other recognitions, she was named a 2022 Young Innovator in Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering by the Biomedical Engineering Society, received the 2024 Mississippi Academy of Sciences Early Career Award, and received the 2025 Ole Miss School of Engineering Outstanding Faculty Award. She is the director of the NSF-funded Ole Miss Nanoengineering Summer REU Program and serves on several campus committees and organizations that support student engagement in research across a broad range of academic and personal backgrounds.
Education
Ph.D. Chemical Engineering, Vanderbilt University (2018)