diff --git a/_includes/member-affiliations.html b/_includes/member-affiliations.html
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..ccd07c80
--- /dev/null
+++ b/_includes/member-affiliations.html
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+{% assign affiliations = include.affiliations | default: empty %}
+{% assign affiliations = affiliations | join: "," | split: "," | array_filter %}
+
+{% if affiliations.size > 0 %}
+  <div class="tags">
+    {% for affiliation in affiliations %}
+      <a
+        href="{{ '/team' | relative_url }}?search=&quot;{{ affiliation }}&quot;"
+        class="tag"
+        data-tooltip="Show team members with {{ affiliation }}"
+      >
+        {{ affiliation }}
+      </a>
+    {% endfor %}
+  </div>
+{% endif %}
diff --git a/_includes/portrait.html b/_includes/portrait.html
index dade824f..299534c2 100644
--- a/_includes/portrait.html
+++ b/_includes/portrait.html
@@ -3,6 +3,8 @@
   | first
   | default: include
 %}
+{% assign affiliations = member.affiliations | default: empty %}
+{% assign affiliations = affiliations | join: ", " %}
 
 <div class="portrait-wrapper">
   <a
@@ -11,6 +13,7 @@
     {% endif %}
     class="portrait"
     data-style="{{ include.style }}"
+    data-search="{{ affiliations }}"
     aria-label="{{ member.name | default: "member link" }}"
   >
     <img
diff --git a/_layouts/member.html b/_layouts/member.html
index 21d2ec06..de002ca4 100644
--- a/_layouts/member.html
+++ b/_layouts/member.html
@@ -20,6 +20,8 @@
 
 {{ content }}
 
+{% include member-affiliations.html affiliations=page.affiliations %}
+
 {% assign related_posts = site.posts
   | where_exp: "post", "post.people contains page.slug"
 %}
diff --git a/_members/alina_yildirim.md b/_members/alina_yildirim.md
index e434a5eb..02a725f1 100644
--- a/_members/alina_yildirim.md
+++ b/_members/alina_yildirim.md
@@ -3,6 +3,9 @@ name: Alina Yildirim '26
 image: images/alina_yildirim.jpg
 description: Honors Thesis Student & McKinley Fellow
 role: undergrad
+affiliations:
+  - Honors Thesis Student
+  - McKinley Fellow
 ---
 
 Alina is a senior majoring in Computer Science and Statistics. She is interested in biomedical AI, especially how machine learning and language-based methods can help connect mouse and human disease. Her honors thesis focuses on comparing how experiments are described across species and what that means for translation.
diff --git a/_members/hildana_shiferaw.md b/_members/hildana_shiferaw.md
index d41a6d95..72a1a038 100644
--- a/_members/hildana_shiferaw.md
+++ b/_members/hildana_shiferaw.md
@@ -4,6 +4,9 @@ image: images/hildana_shiferaw.jpg
 description: Honors Thesis Student & McKinley Fellow
 role: undergrad
 group: alum
+affiliations:
+  - Honors Thesis Student
+  - McKinley Fellow
 links:
 ---
 Hildana graduate from Smith in 2025 with B.A. in Biological Sciences and a B.S. in Engineering Science. She completed the VBIL's first honors thesis, where she assessed the viability of miRNA markers for assessing ovarian cancer risk, with the goal of developing point of care diagnostic testing. After graduating from Smith, she went on to pursue a [Ph.D. in  Computational Biology and Biomedical Informatics at Yale University](https://cbb.yale.edu/students).
diff --git a/_members/zoe_plumridge.md b/_members/zoe_plumridge.md
index 885129e4..9b262557 100644
--- a/_members/zoe_plumridge.md
+++ b/_members/zoe_plumridge.md
@@ -3,6 +3,8 @@ name: Zo&#235; Plumridge '26
 image: images/zoe_plumridge.jpeg
 description: Honors Thesis Student
 role: undergrad
+affiliations:
+  - Honors Thesis Student
 links:
   github: zrplumridge
 ---
diff --git a/_scripts/search.js b/_scripts/search.js
index fa23ca4c..7950bca9 100644
--- a/_scripts/search.js
+++ b/_scripts/search.js
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 */
 {
   // elements to filter
-  const elementSelector = ".card, .citation, .post-excerpt";
+  const elementSelector = ".card, .citation, .post-excerpt, .portrait";
   // search box element
   const searchBoxSelector = ".search-box";
   // results info box element
diff --git a/team/index.md b/team/index.md
index c91b6fe1..3fe4e556 100644
--- a/team/index.md
+++ b/team/index.md
@@ -9,6 +9,33 @@ nav:
 
 Below, learn about the current and past members of the VBIL. We are always open to working with new students! Please use the contact page to reach out.
 
+{% assign affiliation_filters = site.members
+  | map: "affiliations"
+  | join: ","
+  | split: ","
+  | array_filter
+  | uniq
+  | sort
+%}
+
+{% include search-box.html %}
+
+{% if affiliation_filters.size > 0 %}
+<div class="tags">
+  {% for affiliation in affiliation_filters %}
+    <a
+      href="{{ '/team' | relative_url }}?search=&quot;{{ affiliation }}&quot;"
+      class="tag"
+      data-tooltip="Show {{ affiliation }} members"
+    >
+      {{ affiliation }}
+    </a>
+  {% endfor %}
+</div>
+{% endif %}
+
+{% include search-info.html %}
+
 {% include list.html data="members" component="portrait" filters="role: pi, group: " %}
 {% include list.html data="members" component="portrait" filters="role: postdoc, group: " %}
 {% include list.html data="members" component="portrait" filters="role: phd, group: " %}