Nasim Alem

Professor Nasim Alem received her B.S. degree in Metallurgical Engineering from Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran and her M.S. degree in Materials Science and Engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Worcester, MA. She did her PhD in Materials Science Department at Northwestern University in 2008. Nasim has been a postdoctoral researcher in the Physics Department at University of California Berkeley and National Center for Electron Microscopy at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, before joining The Pennsylvania State University as an assistant professor in 2013. Alem’s research focuses on the structurally driven aspects that can affect the resulting physical, chemical and mechanical properties of crystals, specifically focused on aberration-corrected scanning/transmission electron microscopy imaging and spectroscopy.