Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering PhD candidate Anastasia Georgiou is one of five Johns Hopkins University students named a 2025 Siebel Scholar, an honor that recognizes students in bioengineering fields for exemplary achievement in academia, research, and leadership.
Since its founding in 2000, the Siebel Scholarship has been awarded to 80 Johns Hopkins graduate students. Each year, around 100 scholars are selected from leading graduate schools to join a community of nearly 2,000 researchers, scholars, and entrepreneurs. Recipients receive a $35,000 award to support their final year of studies. Additionally, they are invited to attend annual conferences to discuss global issues alongside heads of state, scientists, and other experts seeking solutions to the world’s most complex and pressing problems.
As a PhD candidate, Georgiou develops data-driven methods to accelerate dynamical system exploration and uncover hidden insights out of scrambled datasets. She has applied her research to a wide array of fields including protein folding, understanding hormone trajectories, and profiling patterns of single-cell motility. Georgiou has co-authored six publications, presented at five conferences, and received several fellowships including the NIH T32. She has used the leadership skills she acquired while in industry at ExxonMobil, Merck KGaA, and Google to contribute back to her school and community at large as lab captain, ChemBE Graduate Student Committee vice president, and director of Youth Education at a Baltimore area non-profit. She also volunteers as a Princeton University admissions interviewer, is a mentor with Women of Whiting, and captains a local soccer team.