Professor Maynard received her B.S. degree in Chemistry with Honors in 1992 at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, her M.S. degree in Materials Science in 1995 at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and her Ph.D. in Chemistry in 2001 from the California Institute of Technology. After working as an American Chemical Society Postdoctoral Fellow at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) and University of Zurich, she joined the faculty at UCLA in 2002.