Dr Lynn Stevens

Lynn is from the USA and earned a bachelor’s in chemistry from St. Mary’s College of Maryland (SMCM) in 2019, where she developed a love for light-based chemistry whilst synthesizing novel mechanochromic fluorescent dyes in Dr. Daniel T. Chase’s research group. A summer NSF REU at UNC Charlotte deepened that interest, where she worked in Dr. Thomas A. Schmedake’s group to make stable hexacoordinate silicon complexes for OLEDs.

Lynn continued following the light to UT Austin in 2019 where she joined Dr. Zachariah A. Page’s (ZAP) group for a PhD in light-based additive manufacturing. For this work, she received an NSF GRFP honourable mention, a CAS Top 100 Future Leaders in Chemistry award, and an ACS Division of Polymer Chemistry travel award. She completed her PhD, “Harnessing Visible to Near-Infrared Light for Advances in Additive Manufacturing”, in 2024.

While at UT she also caught the startup bug, working as a fellow at the McCombs School of Business and co-founding a local chapter of NucleateBio, a biotech startup accelerator for early-career academics. This led to her working for two additive manufacturing startups after her PhD. Most recently, Lynn worked as a Materials Engineer and Program Manager at ICON, where she contributed to two NASA-funded projects on in-space and off-planet manufacturing; specifically, on-orbit welding/repair and laser-powder bed fusion of lunar regolith for lunar infrastructure. In 2026, she was named a finalist in YMBL’s Austin Under 40 Technology category for her work in the Austin startup ecosystem.

Now in the Dove group, Lynn returns to a lifelong interest in sustainability as a Research Fellow in Sustainable Polymer Synthesis, studying the degradation of polymers in liquid formulations used in commercial goods like personal care products.

Outside of the lab Lynn can be found cooking up a storm (usually Tex-Mex), travelling, spending time with her husband & dog, or haunting local cafes.