Aaliyah is an incoming assistant professor in the Chemical and Biomedical Engineering department. Prior to joining the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering, she was a postdoctoral research scientist co-advised with Dr. Sanat Kumar and Dr. Neil Dolinski in the Chemical Engineering department at Columbia University. Her postdoctoral work revolved around using dynamic chemistries to improve the mechanical recycling of polyolefins. She earned her B.S. in Chemical engineering at NYU Tandon School of Engineering where she worked with Dr. Miguel Modestino on the electro-organic synthesis of Nylon precursors. She then did her Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin under the supervision of Dr. Gabriel E. Sanoja where she focused on leveraging living copolymerizations to tailor the fracture properties of polymer networks.