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Catherine Bordel is a Continuing Lecturer in the Department of Physics at the University of California, Berkeley. She completed her PhD in Physics at Joseph Fourier University Grenoble, France, in 1997. Her professional career began with a postdoctoral position at IBM Almaden in South Bay, where she dedicated a year to research. Following this, she served as an Associate Professor at the University of Rouen in France for eleven years before joining UC Berkeley in 2009. Her research primarily focuses on the interplay of structural order and magnetic properties in thin films and multilayers, exploring phenomena such as magnetization switching and spintronics. Catherine has made significant contributions to the field, with publications addressing topics like ultrathin films, anomalous Hall effects, and thermodynamic measurements of alloys. She has taught various undergraduate courses including Introductory Physics and supervised teaching in Physics, emphasizing the professional preparation of future physicists.
University of California, Berkeley • Berkeley, CA
Lecturer in the Department of Physics, teaching various undergraduate courses.
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