Karen Kavanagh

Karen L. Kavanagh farfesa ce a fannin kimiyyar lissafi a Jami'ar Simon Fraser da ke Burnaby, British Columbia, Kanada, inda take jagorantar Kavanagh Lab, dakin bincike da ke aiki a kan semiconductor Nanoscience . 

 Ilimi 
Kavanagh ya sami BSc a cikin Chemical-Physics daga Jami'ar Sarauniya a 1978, ya biyo bayan shekaru 3 a Bell Northern Research a Ottawa a cikin Laboratory na Fasaha ta Ci gaba. Ta sami digirinta na PhD a kimiyyar kayan aiki da injiniya a 1987 a Jami'ar Cornell da ke Ithaca, New York . 

 Ayyuka 
Bayan aikin digiri na biyu a IBM da MIT, Kavanagh ya karɓi matsayi na ilimi a Sashen Injiniyan Lantarki da Kwamfuta. a Jami'ar California, San Diego. Ta kasance a Jami'ar Simon Fraser tun shekara ta 2000.

Babban filin sha'awarta shine kimiyyar kayan lantarki - nazarin tasirin lahani a kan kaddarorin kayan semiconductor da na'urori. Ta yi aiki a kan shakatawa a cikin heterostructures na semiconductor da ba daidai ba, shingen watsawa da lambobin sadarwa na lantarki don silicon da III-V semiconductor, ci gaban epitaxial da nucleation, da jigilar lantarki ta hanyar fina-finai da kuma hanyoyin sadarwa. Ayyukanta a kan kayan aikin halayyar da suka hada da microscopy na lantarki, Rutherford backscattering, x-ray diffraction, da kuma binciken microscopy.[1]

Ita Fellow ce ta Cibiyar Physics  kuma ita ce marubuciyar takardun mujallu sama da 200 da kuma taron taron, kamar yadda aka nuna a kan ORCID .  A cikin 2022, an zaɓi Kavanagh a matsayin Fellow na Kungiyar Binciken Kayan aiki (MRS). 

 Kyaututtuka 

 Vancouver YWCA Women of Distinction Award (2006) 
 Kwalejin Jami'ar NSERC (1999) 
 Kyautar Matashin Mai Bincike na Shugaban kasa na NSF (1991) 
Manazarta 
Rukuni:Rayayyun mutane