After receiving a B.S. in Chemical Engineering at Cornell University, Julie worked at Kraft Foods as a research engineer. She returned to Cornell to complete a Ph.D. in Food Science, with minors in material science and food microbiology, under the guidance of Prof. Joseph Hotchkiss. She most recently worked in Prof. David Erickson’s Integrated Micro- and Nanofluidic Systems lab as a postdoctoral researcher. Julie has been a member of the faculty in the Department of Food Science at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst since Fall 2009.