Ariel Furst
Assistant Professor
MIT Department of Chemical Engineering
77 Massachusetts Avenue
Office: 66-462 | Lab: 56-478
Cambridge, MA 02139
Tel: 617-253-4677
Email: afurst [at] mit.edu
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Ariel L. Furst received a B.S. degree in Chemistry from the University of Chicago working with Prof. Stephen B. H. Kent on the chemical synthesis of proteins. She then completed her Ph.D. in the lab of Prof. Jacqueline K. Barton at the California Institute of Technology developing new cancer diagnostic strategies based on DNA charge transport. She was then an A. O. Beckman Postdoctoral Fellow in the lab of Prof. Matthew Francis at the University of California, Berkeley. She is now an assistant professor in the Chemical Engineering Department at MIT. She is passionate about STEM outreach and increasing participation of underrepresented groups in engineering.