Dr. Elisa Riedo

Biography

Elisa Riedo is a Herman F. Mark Professor in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and also serves as a Professor of Physics at New York University's College of Arts and Science. She has held her current position since 2015 after a tenure as a Professor of Physics at the Georgia Institute of Technology from 2003 to 2015. Riedo graduated summa cum laude in Physics from the University of Milano and obtained her Ph.D. in Physics in 2000, completing a joint thesis at the University of Milano and the European Synchrotron Research Facility in Grenoble, France. Her postdoctoral work was conducted at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland. Riedo is particularly recognized for her pioneering contributions to thermal scanning probe lithography (tSPL) and nanofabrication techniques, with applications in biomedicine, nanoelectronics, and magnetic materials. She has made significant contributions to the fields of nanomechanics, graphene, diamene, and the behavior of nano-confined water. Riedo is widely published and has received multiple grants from the National Science Foundation, the Department of Energy, and the Department of Defense. She is also a Fellow of the American Physical Society.

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