Rhea Braun worked in the lab as a senior undergraduate student in Chemical and Biological Engineering; she also pursued certificates in Japanese and Computer Science. Her interests include the applications of polymers and hydrogels across the field, from medicine to cosmetics to electronics. Her research in the lab focused on understanding how bacteria swim. She moved on to a PhD program in Chemical Engineering at the University of Virginia after graduating.

Rhea was born in Greece but raised in Princeton, where she learned French and Japanese. She spends most of her free time fiddling with electronics and computers, or wrestling with her language studies. On a rare occasion you may find her in the gym practicing Jiu Jitsu or Krav Maga.