Nancy Burnham
Associate Professor of Physics
nab@wpi.edu
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Ph.D., University of Colorado at Boulder
Burnham's dissertation concerned the surface analysis of photovoltaic materials. As a National Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow at the Naval Research Laboratory, she became interested in scanning probe microscopy, in particular its application to detecting materials properties at the nanoscale. After three years as a von Humboldt Fellow in Germany at Forschungszentrum Juelich, she spent another six years in Europe, principally at the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne in Switzerland, all the while pursuing the mechanical properties of nanostructures, and instrumentation and metrology for nanomechanics. She became an Associate Professor of Physics at WPI in January of 2000. Her international experience also includes sejours at the University of Bordeaux, Tokyo Institute of Technology, and the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm (an exchange school with WPI). Invited, tutorial, or plenary speaker at approximately 35 conferences, author or co-author of roughly 60 publications with over 2400 citations, she is as well active in professional societies as, e.g., Treasurer of the Nanoscience and Technology Division of the AVS and a member of its Program Committee for its annual International Symposium. She is the recipient of the 2001 Nanotechnology Recognition Award from the same organization and was a 2002 Institute of Physics of Ireland Lecturer.
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