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tanya.hutter@utexas.edu
Office Location: ETC 9.154

Tanya Hutter

Assistant Professor

Department Research Areas

Advanced Materials Science and Engineering
Biomechanical and Biomedicine Engineering
Nano and Micro-scale Engineering
Thermal Fluids Systems and Transport Phenomena

Hutter Research Group

Dr. Tanya Hutter is an Assistant Professor in the Walker Department of Mechanical Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin. Her research interests lie in the fields of emerging molecular sensing technologies, nanomaterials, microfabrication and nanophotonics with applications in environmental and industrial sensing, homeland security and medical diagnostics.

Dr. Hutter has a B.Sc. in Chemical Engineering (Ben-Gurion University), M.Sc. in Materials Science and Engineering (Tel-Aviv University) and Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry (University of Cambridge). Since completing her Ph.D., she worked as a Research Fellow in Physical Chemistry at the University of Cambridge and received several prestigious fellowships to develop her independent research. She was awarded 2016 L’Oréal-UNESCO for Women in Science Fellowship UK & Ireland for her scientific achievements, received NSF CAREER Award in 2024, departmental Outstanding Teaching Award (2024) and Advisor of the Year Award (2025).

Dr. Hutter published 50 peer-reviewed papers and is an inventor on 9 patents. She also has a strong interest in technology commercialization and entrepreneurship. Alongside her academic career she co-foundered two startups in the fields of nanophotonic sensing and MedTech, and regularly mentors scientists-entrepreneurs.

Recent Publications
  1. Tse-Ang Lee, Hongjoo J. Lee, Regina A. Mangieri , Rueben Gonzales , Heba Ajmal, Tanya Hutter, Time-course concentration of ethanol, acetaldehyde and acetate in rat brain dialysate following alcohol self-administration, Alcohol 123, 69-76, 2024 (DOI).
  2. Aminur Rashid Chowdhury, Umar Burney, David King, Tse-Ang Lee, Dan Hutter and Tanya Hutter, Detection of Toxic Contaminants in Alcohol-Based Hand Sanitizers Using Infrared Spectroscopy, Applied Spectroscopy Practica 1 (2), 2023 (DOI).
  3. Coco Day, Nirmalay Barua and Tanya Hutter, Porous Silica Preconcentrator for Selective Ambient Volatile Organic Compounds Detection: Effects of Surface Functionalization and Humidity, AIP Applied Physics Reviews, 10, 021401 2023 (DOI).
  4. Nirmalay Barua, William T. Winter, Serrita McAuley, Joshua Prestage, Andrew R. Salmon, Paul T. Clackson, Hye-Jeong Lee, Tse-Ang Lee, Yixian Wang and Tanya Hutter, Spectral comparison of nanoporous silica-adsorbed organic molecules with gaseous and liquid states using a new waveguide technology, Vibrational Spectroscopy 125, 103496, 2023 (DOI).