Susan Sinnott
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Susan Sinnott in 2015
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Susan Buthaina Sinnott
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| Alma mater | University of Texas at Austin (BS) Iowa State University (PhD) |
| Awards | Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (2010) |
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| Fields | Computational materials science Computational physics Computational chemistry[1] |
| Institutions | Pennsylvania State University University of Florida University of Kentucky United States Naval Research Laboratory |
| Thesis | Density functional studies: first principles and semi-empirical calculations of clusters and surfaces (1993) |
| Website | research |
Susan Buthaina Sinnott is professor and head of materials science and engineering at Pennsylvania State University.[1][2] Sinnott is a fellow of the Materials Research Society (MRS), the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and the American Physical Society (APS). She has served as editor-in-chief of the journal Computational Materials Science since 2014.
Sinnott received a bachelors of science in chemistry at the University of Texas at Austin.[3][4] She moved to Iowa State University for her graduate studies, and earned her doctoral degree in physical chemistry in 1993.[3]
After graduating Sinnott moved to the United States Naval Research Laboratory where she worked on surface chemistry.[3][5]
After two years at the Naval Research Laboratory, Sinnott was appointed an assistant professor at the University of Kentucky.[7] In 2000 she was recruited to the University of Florida as an Associate Professor.[3] Sinnott was promoted to Professor at the University of Florida in 2005, where she led projects on cyber infrastructure and quantum theory.[3] In 2015 Sinnott was appointed Head of Materials Science and Engineering at the Pennsylvania State University.[3][8][9]
Sinnott's research involves the development of computational methods to understand the electronic and atomic structure of materials.[1] Her computational models include continuum level modelling and fluid dynamics and take into account material behaviour at the nanoscale.[7] She has investigated the formation and role of grain boundaries, dopants, defects and heterogeneous interfaces.[10][11] Her research has considered perovskites, showing that the alignment or tilting of the perovskite oxygen cages impacts the materials properties.[12] Sinnott has served as editor-in-chief of the scientific journal Computational Materials Science since 2014.[10]
Her principal research interests at Penn State University include two-dimensional and nano-structured materials, gas adsorption and separation in porous solid materials, and condensed matter physics.[13]
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Her publications[1][2] include
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