Abstracts Book - IMRC 2018

Plenary lectures
Sunday, August 19th
Prof. Susan Trolier-Mckinstry
Professor of Ceramic Science and Engineering
Director of the Penn State Nanofabrication Facility
The Penssylvania State University, U.S.A.
Room: Tulum D & E
19:00 - 20:00 hrs
Biography
Susan Trolier-McKinstry is the Steward S. Flaschen Professor of Ceramic
Science and Engineering, Professor of Electrical Engineering, and Director of the
Nanofabrication facility at the Pennsylvania State University. Her main research
interests include thin films for dielectric and piezoelectric applications. Her group
studies the fundamental mechanisms that control the properties of ferroelectric
films, the processing science associated with growing and patterning films,
and piezoelectric microelectromechanical systems; they have published >400
papers in this field. She is a fellow of the American Ceramic Society, IEEE, and
the Materials Research Society, and an academician of the World Academy of
Ceramics. She currently serves as an associate editor for Applied Physics Letters.
She is 2017 President of the Materials Research Society; previously she served as
president of the IEEE Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics and Frequency Control Society,
as well as Keramos. She is the recipient of the IEEE Ferroelectrics Achievement
Award, the Robert E. Newnham Award, the Jeppson, Fulrath, and Robert Coble
Awards of the American Ceramic Society, the Wilson Outstanding Research
Award, the Ceramics Education Council Outstanding Educator Award, the Wilson
Award for Outstanding Teaching in the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences, the
Materials Research Laboratory Outstanding Faculty Award, and a National Science
Foundation Career grant. She was a Distinguished Lecturer for IEEE Ultrasonics,
Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control Society. Twenty-one people that she has
advised/co-advised have taken faculty positions around the world.
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