Dr. Serife Tol is an Assistant Professor in the Mechanical Engineering Department at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She received her Ph.D. (2017) from Georgia Institute of Technology and her M.S. (2012) and B.S. (2009) degrees from Middle East Technical University (METU, Ankara, Turkey), all in mechanical engineering. She worked as a Test and Analysis Engineer in the Defense Systems Technologies Business Sector at ASELSAN (Turkey, Ankara) between 2009 and 2012. During her graduate degree at METU she was elected as a M.S. fellow of the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey. Prior to joining UM in 2018, she was a visiting scholar in the Civil and Materials Engineering Department at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Dr. Tol’s research interests include smart structures, electromechanical systems, vibrations, energy harvesting, elastic wave propagation, nondestructive testing, metamaterials, metasurfaces, and phononic crystals. Dr. Tol’s research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, DARPA, the Department of Energy, and the DoD Office of Naval Research.