Ertekin named TMS Early Career Faculty Fellow

1/14/2016 Julia Cation

  MechSE Assistant Professor Elif Ertekin has been named a 2016 Early Career Faculty Fellow by The Minerals, Me

Written by Julia Cation

 
MechSE Assistant Professor Elif Ertekin has been named a 2016 Early Career Faculty Fellow by The Minerals, Metals and Materials Society (TMS). The award recognizes assistant professors for their accomplishments that have advanced the academic institution where employed, and for their efforts to broaden the technological profile of TMS.
 
She was honored for her work in building from a mixed background in the mechanics of materials and in materials physics, merging her research in continuum models of defects and plastic deformation in low-dimensional materials, with electronic structure of points defects in semiconductors for photovoltaics and other energy applications. 
 
Ertekin, a co-recipient of the award, will be formally honored at the TMS-AIME annual awards ceremony in February 2016. As part of her award, she will present a Young Professional Luncheon and Lecture, titled, “Introducing Innovations in Teaching While Staying on the Research Track.” She will also help organize a symposium for the 2017 annual meeting, tentatively entitled “Materials Physics Aspects of Shape Memory Alloys.”
 
She joined the department in 2011, after postdoc positions at MIT and University of California, Berkeley. She earned an MS in engineering science from Penn State, an MS in materials science and engineering from UC Berkeley, and a PhD in 2006 in materials science and engineering from UC Berkeley.
 
Ertekin’s research group focuses on using atomistic computational methods to design and understand new materials and structures to address a wide range of globally and societally relevant issues, such as energy sustainability, next-generation electronics, and environmental remediation. They use a variety of techniques to address problems related to mechanical phenomena at the nanoscale, the design of advanced energy conversion systems, and the study of novel surface and interface phenomena.
 
 
 

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This story was published January 14, 2016.