Andela Saric is a Professor at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria, near Vienna. She obtained a PhD in Chemical Physics from Columbia University in 2013, followed by a research fellowship at the University of Cambridge. She started her research group at University College London in 2016, before moving to Austria in 2022. Her lab develops computer models for molecular self-organisation far from thermodynamic equilibrium, applied to living and synthetic cells. She is an EMBO Young Investigator, Allen Distinguished Investigator, and a recipient of the ERC Starting Grant.