Julie Ann Borchers (born 1962) is an American physicist.

Education

Borchers received her B.S. in physics at the University of Dayton in 1984. She completed a Ph.D. at University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign in 1990.[1] Borcher's doctoral advisor was Myron Salamon. Her dissertation was titled Structural and magnetic properties of erbium thin films and Er/Y superlattices.[2]

Career and research

Borchers is part of the Neutron-Condensed Matter Science Group at the National Institute of Standards and Technology.[1] She works as associate director for the Center for High Resolution Neutron Scattering (CHRNS) and is an instrument scientist for the polarized beam reflectometer (PBR).[1]

She acts as chair-elect for the APS Topical Group on Magnetism and its Applications (GMAG), working on bringing together students, scientists and engineers to advance the study and applications of magnetism.[3] Her term as chair-elect is May 2020 to March 2021.[4]

Awards and honours

She was elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 2002.[5]

She was awarded NIST 2022 Distinguished Mentoring Award.[6]

References

  1. ^ a b c Borchers, Julie A. (2019-10-09). "Julie A. Borchers". NIST. Retrieved 2019-10-15.
  2. ^ Borchers, Julie Ann (1990). Structural and magnetic properties of erbium thin films and Er/Y superlattices (Thesis). OCLC 27905859.
  3. ^ Dove, Abigail. "The APS Topical Group on Magnetism and its Applications". www.aps.org. Retrieved 2021-03-15.
  4. ^ "Executive Committee Members". aps.org. Retrieved 2021-03-14.
  5. ^ "APS Fellow Archive". APS. Retrieved 17 September 2020.
  6. ^ "2022 - Distinguished Mentoring Award---Julie Borchers". NIST. 2022-10-19.

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