University of St. Thomas : School of Engineering : Brittany Nelson-Cheeseman, Ph.D.

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Brittany Nelson-Cheeseman, Ph.D.

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Brittany Nelson-Cheeseman
	Assistant Professor bbnelsonchee@stthomas.edu Phone: 651-962-5773 Mail OSS100 2115 Summit Ave. St. Paul, MN 55105 Office Location: OSS 319


Education Ph.D. 2009, Materials Science and Engineering, University of California, Berkeley D.E. (Designated Emphasis) 2009, Nanoscale Science and Engineering M.S. 2007, Materials Science and Engineering, University of California, Berkeley B.S. 2003, Materials Science and Engineering, University of Wisconsin, Madison Interests Complex oxide thin films and heterostructures Nanoscale science and engineering Next generation energy materials Materials by design Engineering education International education Cross-disciplinary education Career Brittany has spent much of her career focused on creating and investigating novel nanoscale materials for energy. In addition to extensive national and international collaborations, she has utilized a number of national laboratory facilities across the US to complete this research, with a particular focus on characterizing materials by powerful synchrotron (high energy x-ray) radiation techniques. As a postdoctoral researcher at Argonne National Laboratory (US Department of Energy) she utilized oxide molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) in the Center for Nanoscale Materials to craft new materials using the single atomic layer control of MBE. Brittany also carried out work at the Institut de Ciencia de Materials at the Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, while living in Barcelona, Spain, and has circumnavigated the globe with Semester at Sea, Institute for Shipboard Education. Brittany is a native of the Twin Cities, having grown up in Southwest Minneapolis.