Talk of Dr. Catherine Dubourdieu on June 23rd 2016
Dr. Catherine Dubourdieu is an internationally recognised expert in the field of functional oxides.
The Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (HZB) is boosting its energy materials research and setting up the newly established institute “Functional Oxides for Energy-Efficient Information Technology”, under the leadership of Dr. Catherine Dubourdieu. On this occasion we like to draw your attention to the talk of Dr. Catherine Dubourdieu about „Functional oxides for energy efficient information technology: from material to device“ on June 23rd at 1 pm in the lecture hall at Lise Meitner Campus Wannsee.
Catherine Dubourdieu is researching on thin films of metal oxides that make especially promising candidates for information technologies of the future. Dubourdieu formerly worked at the institute “Nanotechnologies de Lyon” of the CNRS and has been at the HZB since 11 April 2016. "In this talk, I will present some aspects of my past work on functional oxides and the projects that will be developed at the Institute “Functional oxides for energy efficient information technology” says Dubourdieu.
Short biography: Catherine Dubourdieu studied and received her PhD degree in physics in Grenoble. After a postdoctoral fellowship at the Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken (New Jersey), she researched at the Laboratoire des Matériaux et du Génie Physique (LMGP) of the CNRS in Grenoble until 2009. Between 2009 and 2012, she was a visiting researcher at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights (NY, USA). There, she worked in the field of monolithic integration of ferroelectric oxides on silicon with the aim of producing energy-saving logic devices. In June 2012, she moved to the institute “Nanotechnologies de Lyon” of the CNRS, developing new projects for functional oxide research.
Talk: "Functional Oxides for Energy Efficient Information Technology: From Material to Device". More
Time: June 23rd at 1 pm
Location: Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin, Lise Meitner Campus, lecture hall, Hahn-Meitner-Platz 1, 14109 Berlin
Note for external guests: Please bring your passport with you in order to enter the campus.
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