Nasim received her B.S. degree in Metallurgical Engineering from Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran and her M.S. degree in Materials Science and Engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute. She received her PhD from the Materials Science Department at Northwestern University. Nasim has been a postdoctoral researcher in the Physics Department at University of California Berkeley and National Center for Electron Microscopy (NCEM) at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, before joining Penn State in 2013. Her awards include NSF CAREER award, Wilson research grant, and NCEM young investigator fellowship. Alem group research is focused on probing the atomic and chemical structure of the defects, edges, grain boundaries and interfaces and their stability and transition dynamics using scanning/transmission electron microscopy imaging and spectroscopy.