Jennifer is the Hansjörg Wyss Professor of Biologically Inspired Engineering at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. She earned a Sc.D. in Ceramic Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She is a Fellow of the American Ceramic Society, the American Physical Society, the Materials Research Society, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a member of the National Academy of Inventors. She serves on the Editorial Advisory Boards of Advanced Functional Materials and Soft Matter. She is a co-founder of two companies that are commercializing technology from her lab.

Her pioneering work integrates materials synthesis, complex fluids, microfluidics, and 3D printing to design and pattern functional materials with controlled composition and architecture across multiple length scales, including vascularized human tissues.