Lindsay Wray

Lindsay Wray is director of materials research for personal care at Bolt Threads, a materials innovation company. She is currently developing sustainable and plastic-alternative materials for personal care applications. She is also the chief science officer of Eighteen B, a skin care company harnessing the power of spider silk for defending and nourishing the skin. Prior to this, Lindsay worked at Bolt Threads to develop textile spinning processes that resulted in the first and second ever spider silk biotechnologies available for purchase, the Bolt Threads tie and Best Made hat.

In 2014, Wray received her PhD in biomedical engineering from Tufts University, where she studied silkworm silk materials for tissue engineering and regenerative medicine applications. She graduated with her B.S. in biology from Harvey Mudd College in 2008.