Amy Marconnet is an associate professor of Mechanical Engineering at Purdue University. She received a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Wisconsin – Madison in 2007, and an M.S. and a PhD in Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University in 2009 and 2012. Her dissertation focused on thermal phenomena in nanostructured materials. She then worked as a postdoctoral associate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, before joining the faculty at Purdue in August 2013.