Nicole J. Labbe is an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Colorado Boulder. She received her Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 2013. Before joining the faculty at the University of Colorado in 2016, Professor Labbe was a postdoctoral associate in the Chemical Sciences and Engineering division of Argonne National Laboratory. Professor Labbe’s research focuses on several areas of gas phase chemical kinetics, especially in the areas of theoretical chemistry and reaction rate theory, kinetic modeling and combustion dynamics, and renewable liquid fuel design. Her Ph.D. research focused on understanding the energetic and environmental implications of including heteroatoms (fuel-bound nitrogen and oxygen atoms) for biofuels and hypergolic rocket propellants. Her postdoctoral research involved using theoretical chemistry to study common combustion radical kinetics and understand how their dynamics affect predictions of global combustion phenomena.