About Cynthia A. Volkert

Cynthia A. Volkert studied physics at McGill University in Montreal, Canada and at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She then spent 10 years working at Bell Labs in New Jersey before moving to Germany. Cynthia went first to the Max-Planck-Institute for Metal Research in Stuttgart and then to the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology where she studied ion-solid interactions, grain growth,mechanical behavior, and atomic transport in metal films and small structures, primarily using in-situ methods. She joined the University of Göttingen as a professor in 2007, where she continues her research in nanoscale materials and in-situ electron microscopy.