Cynthia A. Volkert, PhD
Technical Staff, Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe (EU)
NANOMESO Activities:
Experimental Verification (EV)
Cynthia Volkert is presently a group leader at the Forschungszentrum in Karlsruhe, Geremany, where she specializes in microstructure and mechanical properties studies of small metal structures and in the use of focused ion beam systems for characterization and nanostructuring. She received her B.S. degree in physics from McGill University in 1982 and a Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1988, where she worked on structural relaxation and flow in metallic glasses. She was a staff member at Bell Laboratories in New Jersey for 10 years, during which she studied various experimental and theoretical aspects of ion irradiation effects on solids, strain relaxation in heteroepitaxial films, stress effects on optical properties of glasses, phase changes on very short time scales, mechanical properties of thin metal films, and electromigration. She then spent 4 years at the Max Planck Institute for Metals Research in Stuttgart working on microstructure and electromigration in thin films, before moving to Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe. She has authored many scientific papers on thin films and several review papers, has edited 6 books, and received a number of patents. She has served on the National Research Council and several SEMATECH advisory boards. She is a regular consultant with US and EC companies and serves a member of the Board of Directors and Secretary of the Materials Research Society.