Kate Reidy

Kate Reidy is currently a Miller Postdoctoral Fellow at University of California, Berkeley and the National Center of Electron Microscopy at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Before that, she earned her PhD in Materials Science and Engineering from MIT. Her research takes a ‘bottom up' approach to nanoscale design, tailoring material properties by understanding and manipulating their atomic structure. She combines advanced characterization with in situ electron microscopy to provide high spatial and temporal resolution to elucidate kinetic growth mechanisms, chemical composition, and response to stimuli at the atomic scale - mapping such structural dynamics to quantum, energy, and opto-electronic properties.

Her work has been recognized by the MIT Department of Materials Science and Engineering ‘Best Doctoral Thesis’ Award, Microscopy Society of America, Materials Research Society Gold Award, and MIT Energy Initative.