Dr. Allison Beese

Biography

Allison Beese received her B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Pennsylvania State University. She worked as an engineer at the Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory before entering graduate school, where she earned both her M.S. and Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). As a graduate student, she worked in the Impact Crashworthiness Lab, focusing on experimentally measuring and computationally modeling multiaxial deformation and fracture of advanced high strength steels. Following graduation, she became a postdoctoral fellow at Northwestern University in the Nano Micromechanics Lab, performing experiments on materials ranging from carbon-based fibers to biological cells using a range of microelectromechanical systems (MEMS)-based testing techniques and situ transmission electron microscopy (TEM). In 2013, she joined Penn State’s Department of Materials Science and Engineering, where she also holds a courtesy appointment in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. As a faculty member, she is associated with the Penn State Intercollege Graduate Degree Program (IGDP) in Materials Science and Engineering (MatSE), highly valuing diverse cross-disciplinary collaboration in research. Professor Beese’s research interests encompass the experimental and computational multiscale mechanics of materials, with a particular emphasis on metallic materials and additive manufacturing techniques.

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