Julia Woertink

Biography

As Julia describes it, the “world beneath the world” – the hidden side of what we encounter every day – is what sparked her lifetime pursuit of science. She first encountered these unseen wonders as a young girl by conducting a petri dish experiment that came with a children’s science kit. “I poured up the dish, ran a cotton swab over a doorknob and spread it on,” Julia said. “I couldn’t believe what I saw emerge over the next few days – the colonies of bacteria grew and exposed a whole new world to me. I felt like an explorer who had just found a lost civilization. It was thrilling!”

Research Interest

Chemistry