She is also a core faculty member in the Materials Science and Engineering Program. She received her Ph.D. in Materials from UC Santa Barbara. Prior to joining the faculty at UC Riverside, she was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the California NanoSystems Institute on the UC Santa Barbara campus and a visiting researcher at MIT. Prof. Haberer’s research interests include bio-templated materials for electronic, optoelectronic, and energy applications; nano-structured hybrid materials; and novel top-down and bottom-up assembly techniques.