Laura Lewis

Background

About Laura Lewis

Laura H. Lewis is the Distinguished University and Cabot Professor of Chemical Engineering, Professor of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering and appointed to the Department of Physics at Northeastern University in Boston, MA. Prior to her Northeastern University position as Chair of the Chemical Engineering Department, she was a research group leader and Associate Department Chair in the Nanoscience Department of Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL). Concurrently, she was the Deputy Director of the BNL Center for Functional Nanomaterials, a DOE national user facility to provide researchers with state-of-the-art capabilities to fabricate and study nanoscale materials. Laura received her undergraduate degree in Physics with specialization in the Earth Sciences from the University of California San Diego; following a MS degree from MIT in Electron Materials, she completed her doctorate in Mechanical Engineering/Material at the University of Texas at Austin, under the guidance of John B. Goodenough. Laura’s research focuses on investigating the materials factors at the atomic level that provide functionality to magnetic and electronic materials, with particular expertise in advanced permanent magnets. She has authored over 200 peer-reviewed publications and delivered over 100 invited presentations at national and international venues. She has participated on a number of advisory panels and is a member of the U.S. Technical Advisory Groups to develop supply chain and sustainability standards as a US Delegate to ISO TC298 (Rare Earths) and ISO (Lithium), American National Standards Institute (ANSI).Laura was Conference Editor of the Transactions on Magnetics (2008 – 2018) and Chair of the Magnetics Society Technical Committee (2017-2019). She is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, a Fellow of the a Fulbright Fellow as well as a member of JEMS-EMA (The European Magnetism Association), the Materials Research Society, the American Chemical Society and the American Society for Engineering Education.