Emily Evans is a Professor of Physics at Elon University. Her research uses analytical and computational modeling to understand magnetic phenomena in soft and microscale systems and to guide the design of magnetic swimmers and soft-robotic devices. She is particularly interested in structured anisotropies and reprogrammable magnetization as tools for controlling locomotion, transport, and reconfiguration. Recent projects have included thin-film magnetic kirigami and origami actuators, reprogrammable hard-magnetic cilia, magnetic millirobots for drug delivery, microrod transport through biological matrices, and magnetically driven microswimmers.