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Dr. Benedek received her Bachelor of Science in Chemistry with Class Honors and PhD in Chemistry and Applied Physics from RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia. Her doctoral work focused on fundamental theoretical studies of weak interactions in mixed organic-inorganic molecular crystals. Following her PhD, she was a postdoctoral fellow at Imperial College London, where she studied the structures of grain boundaries in complex oxide ferroelectrics, linking microstructure to their electrical properties. During this period, she co-developed a computational technique to predict the atomic-scale structures of interfaces in complex materials. Dr. Benedek continued her work on complex oxides as a postdoctoral fellow in Applied Physics at Cornell, where she discovered a new route to achieve electric field-control of magnetization in a family of multiferroic perovskites, which are materials that enable the development of low-power electronic devices. Her research interests include the use of theory and first-principles calculations to advance the fundamental understanding and design of new classes of materials that exhibit new phenomena and properties, with a particular focus on understanding and controlling the structures and properties of materials at equilibrium.
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