Mina Aganagic received her BS (1995) and PhD (1999) degrees from California Institute of Technology. From 1999-2003 she had a postdoctoral appointment at Harvard University. She was given an Assistant Professor appointment at the Physics Department of University of Washington, Seattle in 2002. In 2003 she was named Outstanding Junior Investigator by the Department of Energy, and in 2004 she was awarded the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellowship. In 2004 she was appointed Assistant Professor of Physics at the University of California Berkeley.