Kristin Myers is an associate professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Columbia University in New York City. Her current obstetrics research is done in collaboration with the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the Columbia University Irving Medical Center. Myers is an international leader in women’s health engineering, a rapidly expanding field that applies research and biotechnology development to improve women's lives. Her work utilizes experimental, theoretical and computational biomechanics to calculate and study the physiology of pregnancy and postpartum recovery. It aims to uncover the structural antecedents of preterm birth to design and invent new diagnostic and therapeutic clinical tools. Myers’s lab holds the most extensive published library of biomechanical data and models of human pregnancy, focused on cervical and uterine properties, geared for clinical translation.