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In addition to her group's research innovations, her research team volunteers at Wonderlab, a Museum of Science, Health, & Technology in Bloomington, IN. She also encourages undergraduate students at Indiana University to return to their local high schools to discuss their experiences as science majors through the Science Ambassadors Program. Skrabalak has served as a tutorial leader for the Joint Undertaking of an African Materials Institute in Arusha, Tanzania (2016) and Kampala, Uganda (2018).

Skrabalak joined the faculty in the Department of Chemistry at Indiana University in 2008 and advanced to the rank of full Professor in 2017. The Provost named Skrabalak a Rudy Professor in 2015. Skrabalak served as the 2016 Nanoscience Chair for the Division of Inorganic Chemistry for the American Chemical Society. She has been an Associate Editor for the journal Nanoscale (Royal Society of Chemistry) since 2017.

She received her Ph.D. in Chemistry at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in the laboratory of Kenneth Suslick (2006). Her thesis research focused on the aerosol synthesis of porous materials, and she was the recipient of the T. S. Piper Thesis Research Award from the Chemistry Department. Her postdoctoral research was conducted at the University of Washington with Xingde Li and Younan Xia. There she was introduced to colloidal metal nanoparticle synthesis and their biomedical applications.

Skrabalak obtained her B.S. from Washington University in St. Louis (Chemistry, 2002)]. She conducted research with William Buhro while there, focused on nanotube synthesis by chemical vapor deposition methods. She received the Sowden Award from Washington University in St. Louis for her undergraduate research. She graduated summa cum laude and was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa and Sigma Xi.

Skrabalak was born on March 12, 1980, in Altoona, Pennsylvania and grew up in Indiana, Pennsylvania.