About Me

I am the Associate Director of the Stanford Nano Shared Facilities. In my job I have overall responsibility for leading all operational functions for the facilities, including finance, research administration, facilities and property administration, human resources
and health and safety.

I received my Ph.D. in Physics from Stony Brook University in 2004 after transferring from the Universität Würzburg. My thesis research focused on high-resolution x-ray imaging with and without lenses, as well as x-ray radiation damage studies. I spent two years as a Research Associate at the Center for Functional Nanomaterials at Brookhaven National Laboratory where I studied carbon nanotubes and other nanomaterials using advanced electron imaging and diffraction techniques. Following my time at Brookhaven, I spent two years at Xradia, Inc. where I led a team to develop novel high-resolution x-ray microscopes for the investigation of nanoscale objects. I joined Stanford University in 2008 as the Associate Director of the National Science Foundation-funded Center for Probing the Nanoscale before becoming the Associate Director of the Stanford Nano Shared Facilities in 2011.