Karen Scida

Karen Scida has been working in the science field since 2005. Karen began their career as an Undergraduate Research Assistant at The University of Texas at San Antonio, where they designed experiments for the separation of chiral surfactants using capillary electrophoresis and collaborated with an organic laboratory in the synthesis of a chiral surfactant. Karen also held two Summer Research Internships and taught the Analytical Chemistry lab for one semester. In 2010, they moved to the University of Texas at Austin where they worked as a Graduate Research Assistant. During this time, they designed and optimized an electrochemical detection system on paper-based platforms that used silver nanoparticles as amplification labels for detection of targets in buffer and human urine. Karen also collaborated in the optimization of antibody and DNA-based assays for the detection of targets by means of fluorescence and ELISA, and developed bipolar electrochemical systems able to permanently separate charged analytes. In 2015, they joined 3M Corporate Research Analytical Laboratory as a Senior Analytical Chemist. In 2016, they moved to UC Santa Barbara where they worked as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow. Finally, in 2019, they joined Diagnostic Biochips, Inc. as a Lead Scientist, and in 2020, they moved to the Lieber Institute for Brain Development as a Staff Scientist.

Karen Scida received their Bachelor of Science in Chemistry from The University of Texas at San Antonio in 2009. Karen then went on to receive their Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Analytical Chemistry from The University of Texas at Austin in 2014.