Cynthia A. Volkert

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Cynthia A. Volkert (born October 1, 1960 in Williamsport ) is a German physicist and professor at the Georg-August University in Göttingen .

Career

Cynthia Volkert studied physics at McGill University in Canada and Harvard University in the USA. She received her PhD in physics from Harvard University in 1987 on the structural relaxation of metallic glasses.

From 1988 to 1998 she worked as a scientist at Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill, USA. Her research there covered various experimental and theoretical aspects of the effects of ion radiation on solids, stress relaxation in heteroepitaxial films, stress effects on the optical properties of glasses, phase changes on very short time scales, the mechanical properties of thin metal films and electromigration .

She then moved to Germany and from 1999 to 2002 did research at the Max Planck Institute for Metals Research in Stuttgart on microstructures and electromigration in thin films. From 2003 to 2007 she worked at the Karlsruhe Research Center , where she developed micromechanical methods to carry out ex-situ and in-situ investigations of deformation and dislocation dynamics in small dimensions.

Cynthia Volkert has been a professor at the Institute for Materials Physics at the University of Göttingen since 2007 and has been President of the German Society for Materials Science since 2008 .

research

Volkert's research focus is on the mechanical properties of nano and microstructures in metals . It uses focused ion beam systems such as transmission electron microscopy and scanning probe microscopy for their investigation . She investigates how pressure, tension, radiation and other mechanical stress factors affect the free energy in materials, since in the nanomolecular range these deformations and phase changes follow different processes than on a large scale. In addition to control and optimization options, Volkert's research also provides possible applications for the recycling of materials.

Awards and honors

On March 16, 2011 it was registered in the Technical Sciences section under matriculation no. 7408 accepted as a member of the National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jörg Hacker (Ed.): Leopoldina . Yearbook 2011. Series 3, year 57. German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina eV - National Academy of Sciences, Halle (Saale) 2012, ISBN 978-3-8047-3055-7 , p. 67–68 ( leopoldina.org [PDF; 47.3 MB ; accessed on March 2, 2020]).
  2. ^ Members. Retrieved March 1, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Volkert, Cynthia A.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German physicist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH October 1, 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Williamsport