Title: Research Fellow, Milk
Employer: Australian Red Cross Lifeblood
Prior Position: Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Illinois Chicago

Laura did her bachelor’s degree here at Illinois in Integrative Biology in the Honors Program, and received her PhD in Human Evolutionary Biology from Harvard University in Spring 2018. After that she was a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Illinois in Chicago. She is currently a Research Fellow at Australian Red Cross Lifeblood, where she leads a translationally-focused human milk research program.

Laura would be a great person to talk to about academic research opportunities, graduate school applications, and public health research. Contact Christina Swanson at alumnimentor@sib.illinois.edu if you would like to connect with Laura. You can learn more about Laura on her LinkedIn Profile as well: https://www.linkedin.com/in/laura-klein-80510774/