Tayler Hebner joined the Benoit Lab at the Knight Campus in January of 2022 as a postdoctoral scholar. Her research is focused on using active polymeric materials for regenerative tendon healing. Hebner earned her Ph.D. as an NSF Graduate Research Fellow in Chemical Engineering from the University of Colorado Boulder in 2022 under advisement of Prof. Christopher Bowman and Prof. Timothy White. Her Ph.D. work focused on the connecting fundamental structure-property relationships to targeted functional design of liquid crystalline elastomers.