Marina S.leite
Material Science
A James Clark School of Engineering
Albania
Biography
Education Ph.D., Physics Institute, UNICAMP, Campinas, Brazil, 2008 Research Interests Solid-state physics, electronic devices, nanoscale resolution measurements, photovoltaics, energy storage, scanning probe microscopy, nanostructured materials, plasmonics, metamaterials, thermodynamics at the nanoscale, nanofabrication. Teaching Professor Leite teaches or has taught the following courses: ENMA 301: Materials for emerging technologies ENMA 310: Materials Lab I: Structural Characterization ENMA 312: Experimental Methods in Materials Science ENMA 412/612: Fundamentals of Solar Cells ENMA 688: Seminar in Materials Science and Engineering Honors and Awards APS Ovshinsky Sustainable Energy Fellowship ($ 15,000), 2016/2017 UMD Research and Scholarship Award (RASA), November 2015 ​Maryland Academy of Sciences Outstanding Young Scientist Award, November 2014 Honor Award for 2007-2009 Ph.D. Theses in Physics. Brazilian Physical Society, July 2010 IUPAP Young Author Best Paper Award on the 28th ICPS, Vienna, July 2008 Young Investigator Award of the Summer School on Modern Concepts for Creating and Analyzing Surfaces and Nanoscale Materials, Girona, Spain, May 2008 Professional Memberships Materials Research Society, 2004–present American Physical Society, 2008–present IEEE Association, 2009–present SPIE 2009–present Education Ph.D., Physics Institute, UNICAMP, Campinas, Brazil, 2008 Research Interests Solid-state physics, electronic devices, nanoscale resolution measurements, photovoltaics, energy storage, scanning probe microscopy, nanostructured materials, plasmonics, metamaterials, thermodynamics at the nanoscale, nanofabrication. Teaching Professor Leite teaches or has taught the following courses: ENMA 301: Materials for emerging technologies ENMA 310: Materials Lab I: Structural Characterization ENMA 312: Experimental Methods in Materials Science ENMA 412/612: Fundamentals of Solar Cells ENMA 688: Seminar in Materials Science and Engineering Honors and Awards APS Ovshinsky Sustainable Energy Fellowship ($ 15,000), 2016/2017 UMD Research and Scholarship Award (RASA), November 2015 ​Maryland Academy of Sciences Outstanding Young Scientist Award, November 2014 Honor Award for 2007-2009 Ph.D. Theses in Physics. Brazilian Physical Society, July 2010 IUPAP Young Author Best Paper Award on the 28th ICPS, Vienna, July 2008 Young Investigator Award of the Summer School on Modern Concepts for Creating and Analyzing Surfaces and Nanoscale Materials, Girona, Spain, May 2008 Professional Memberships Materials Research Society, 2004–present American Physical Society, 2008–present IEEE Association, 2009–present SPIE 2009–present
Research Interest
Solid-state physics, electronic devices, nanoscale resolution measurements, photovoltaics, energy storage, scanning probe microscopy, nanostructured materials, plasmonics, metamaterials, thermodynamics at the nanoscale, nanofabrication.
