Brittany Nelson-cheeseman

Biography

While Brittany now focuses on novel composite materials for additive manufacturing, earlier in her career she 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.

Research Interest

creating and investigating novel nanoscale materials for energy