Tania Successfully Defends Thesis

Tania Successfully Defends Thesis

Congratulations, Tania!

Tania has completed her thesis defense for her PhD dissertation! Tania's work has focused on the organic functionalization of semiconductors, specifically germanium surfaces. She has bridged both experimental in situ work in ultra-high vacuum (UHV) environments and computational models using density functional theory (DFT), and using both she has been able to gain a detailed understanding of the reaction mechanisms of a variety of organic molecules with the germanium surface. Her work has significant applications in the semiconductor industry, and in recognition of her accomplishments, she was awarded the Russell & Sigurd Varian Award by the American Vacuum Society. She will be continuing on to the University of Marburg to further pursue computational aspects of her research, and then she will return to her home country of Chile where she has a university faculty position in chemical engineering. Congratulations, Tania, and we wish you the best!