Julie Borchers
American physicist
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Julie Ann Borchers (born 1962) is an American physicist.
Julie Borchers | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1962 (age 63–64) |
| Education | University of Dayton (BS), University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign (PhD) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Neutron Condensed Matter Science |
| Workplaces | NIST |
Education
Borchers received her B.S. in physics at the University of Dayton in 1984. She completed a Ph.D. at University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign in 1990.[1] Borcher's doctoral advisor was Myron Salamon. Her dissertation was titled Structural and magnetic properties of erbium thin films and Er/Y superlattices.[2]
Career and research
Borchers is part of the Neutron-Condensed Matter Science Group at the National Institute of Standards and Technology.[1] She works as associate director for the Center for High Resolution Neutron Scattering (CHRNS) and is an instrument scientist for the polarized beam reflectometer (PBR).[1]
She acts as chair-elect for the APS Topical Group on Magnetism and its Applications (GMAG), working on bringing together students, scientists and engineers to advance the study and applications of magnetism.[3] Her term as chair-elect is May 2020 to March 2021.[4]
Awards and honours
She was elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 2002.[5]
