Nicole Avakyan is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of California – San Diego, where she works under the supervision of Akif Tezcan in the Chemistry and Biochemistry Department. She is part of the Center for the Science of Synthesis Across Scales (CSSAS). Her research interests lie in the field of biomolecular self-assembly for nanomaterial development with a current focus on protein-based systems. ORCID ID #0000-0002-9636-0291.