Laila Jaber-Ansari is a Ph.D. candidate in Materials Science and Engineering at Northwestern University (Illinois), studying with Mark C. Hersam. She is a member of Center for Electrical Energy Storage, an Energy Frontier Research Center. She received her M. Eng. in Materials Science and Engineering from Northeastern University (Massachusetts) in 2009. Her research interests include application of carbon-based nanomaterials in advancing energy storage devices.