CMTM Faculty Emma Lejeune Awarded David R. Dalton Career Development Professorship

Each year, Boston University has the pleasure of recognizing a number of talented junior faculty who are emerging as future leaders within their respective fields with the awarding of Career Development Professorships.

Presented to promising junior faculty who have been at BU for less than two years and who have held no prior professorships, these awards are made possible through the generous support of BU Trustee Peter Paul; Trustee Ruth Moorman (CAS ’88, Wheelock ’89,’09) and her husband Sheldon Simon; Trustee Nathaniel Dalton (LAW ’91) and his wife Amy Gottlieb Dalton (LAW ’91); and proceeds from the University’s Office of Technology Development.

The awards highlight the caliber, potential, and continued vitality of Boston University’s dynamic faculty and include a three-year, non-renewable stipend designed to support research, scholarship, and creative work, as well as a portion of the recipients’ salaries. Nominations are submitted by the academic deans, and awardees are selected by the Provost.

  • The Peter Paul Career Development Professorship this year recognizes a faculty member in the School of Medicine.
  • The Moorman-Simon Interdisciplinary Career Development Professorship is awarded to faculty members who currently hold appointments in multiple schools and colleges or have the potential for a second appointment in the future.
  • The David R. Dalton Career Development Professorship advances the participation and success of women in the natural sciences and computational and data sciences.
  • The Innovation Career Development Professorship recognizes junior faculty whose translational research is likely to lead to future licensed technology.

This year’s Career Development Professorship recipients have been recognized for their extraordinary accomplishments in their areas of study, their passion for the creation and transmission of new knowledge, their efforts to enhance the student experience, and their potential to develop into outstanding faculty members.

David R. Dalton Career Development Professorship

Emma Lejeune
Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering, College of Engineering
Emma Lejeune works at the intersection of mechanics, computation, biology, and data science, leveraging state of the art computational tools to investigate multiscale emergent behavior in biological systems and inform patient-specific medical protocols. Current translational research includes developing software to help predict the mechanical behavior of highly heterogeneous soft tissue. She received her doctorate and master’s in civil and environmental engineering from Stanford University and her bachelor’s degree from Cornell University. She completed her postdoctoral work at the University of Texas at Austin.

To see all award winners, visit /provost/awards-publications/award-opportunities/career-development-professorships/.

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