Janice Musfeldt is a professor at University of Tennessee, Knoxville in physical and materials chemistry and experimental physics. She received her B.S. degree in chemical engineering from the University of Illinois in 1987 and a Ph.D. in physical chemistry from the University of Florida in 2003. She served as a post-doctoral research associate at the Departement de Physique, Universite de Sherbrooke in 1993-1994. She received the 2001 Creativity award from the Division of Materials Research, National Science Foundation and the 2010 Chancellor's award for research and creative achievement at the University of Tennessee. She has served on the user committee of the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory between 2010 and 2013 and between 2018 and the present and was elected its chair in 2010