Herdeline Ann (Digs) M. Ardoña is originally from Valenzuela City, Philippines. She received her B.S. in Chemistry from the University of the Philippines Diliman in 2011. In 2017, she completed her Ph.D. in Chemistry at Johns Hopkins, with funding support from Schlumberger Foundation and Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Her dissertation was focused on understanding the molecular design, photophysical properties, and supramolecular principles towards developing pi-conjugated peptide assemblies as bioelectronic nanomaterials. She then worked as a postdoctoral researcher in the Disease Biophysics Group at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering and John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Harvard University. As the 2018–2020 ACS Irving S. Sigal Postdoctoral Fellow, she investigated the structural and functional impacts of engineered nanomaterials through microphysiological platforms and in vitro biohybrid models. Digs started as an Assistant Professor at the UCI Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering in Fall 2020.