About the Speaker:

Bio:

Emilie Ringe earned her B.A./M.S. summa cum laude in chemistry, then Ph.D. in chemistry and materials science at Northwestern University in 2012. She became the Gott Research Fellow at Trinity Hall as well as a Newton International Research Fellow (Royal Society) in the Electron Microscopy group in the Materials Science and Metallurgy Department at the University of Cambridge, UK. In 2014, she was hired as an assistant professor at Rice University, where she established the Electron Microscopy Center and received funding from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (YIP), NSF, ACS-PRF, 3M, and the US/Israel Binational Science Foundation.

In 2018, she moved back to the University of Cambridge, joint between the Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy and the Department of Earth Sciences; she was promoted to professor (grade 11) in 2022. She received an ERC Starting grant and an EPSRC grant to pursue her studies of Earth-abundant plasmonics, for which she has been named one of the 2021 C&EN’s “Talented 12″ and recipient of the 2021 The Journal of Physical Chemistry C and ACS PHYS lectureship.