Meet the team that organizes this event!

Tirzah is currently the SEM Facility Manager at the NUANCE Center at Northwestern University. She is also a PhD student in Professor Steve Jacobsen’s mineral physics research group in the Earth and Planetary Sciences Department. She also has two cats that she loves very dearly.

Katy coordinates NUANCE’s outreach activities and online presence. She is the point person for NUANCE’s many events, workshops, lectures and tours in addition to managing NUANCE‘s website, social media, and video platforms.

Louisa is a Biomedical Engineering PhD candidate at the Ohio State University and an American Heart Association Graduate Fellow. Her work with Dr. Sai Veeraraghavan’s lab focuses on investigating the functional impacts of nanoscale structural changes.

Marie is the Outreach Assistant for the NUANCE Center, assisting  the behind-the-scenes logistics of organizing outreach events. She is very excited to be involved with Women in Microscopy’s 3rd annual conference and is always inspired by the amazing research and knowledge shared at the conference!

Thomas is a 2nd year graduate student at the Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering, University of Chicago. He is a member of the Laboratory for Energy Storage and Conversion and is advised by Y. Shirley Meng and Nestor Zaluzec. His research focuses on capturing ion choreography over interfaces in energy materials. 

Andrés is a M.S. student at University of Tennessee, Knoxville working with Prof. Brett Compton on Additive Manufacturing (A.M.) of Polymers and Hybrid Materials.  He is also a technical researcher at Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s Manufacturing Demonstration Facility (MDF) specializing in characterization of processes and materials for A.M. components via destructive and non-destructive mechanisms.  In both of my fields he studies materials using an array of techniques like mechanical testing, nano indentation, heat treatment, computed tomography (CT), SEM and other techniques to better understand how A.M. affects material properties.  During his bachelor’s degree, he was the student chapter president for the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) for my university in Puerto Rico as well as vice president for the local society known as Institute of Chemical Engineers of Puerto Rico (IIQPR in spanish).  He’s looking forward to helping bridge the gap of this society that encompasses such a large country, while assisting future researchers on finding mentorship and internship opportunities.

Kayna has an academic and professional background in Metallurgical and Materials Engineering alongside 3 years of industry experience in the aerospace sector. She has since transitioned to research in nanomagnetism for energy efficient computing at Argonne National Laboratory. Kayna is a member and active volunteer of the Microscopy Society Student Council as Regional Liaison, IEEE Young Professionals Community Climate and Sustainability Task Force (CSTF) as well as the Humanitarian Technologies Board (HTB). She is focused on contributing to spaces that uplift students voices and those that bridge technology and policy.