Dr. Meisha L. Shofner is a Professor in the School of Materials Science and Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology, joining the faculty following post-doctoral training at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.  She received her B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from The University of Texas at Austin and her Ph.D. in Materials Science from Rice University. Prior to beginning graduate school, she was employed as a design engineer at FMC in the Subsea Engineering Division, working at two plant locations (Houston, Texas and the Republic of Singapore), and she is a registered Professional Engineer in Georgia.

Dr. Shofner's group investigates processing-structure-property relationships in polymers and composites. She and her group focus on scalable processing approaches relevant to emerging materials such as mechanical metamaterials, natural polymers, and nanocomposites.