Elizabeth Dickey

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Elizabeth Dickey, Teddy & Wilton Hawkins Distinguished Professor and Department Head of Materials Science & Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University, is a fellow of the Materials Research Society, the American Ceramic Society, the Microscopy Society of America, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. She is regarded as a leader in the application of electron microscopy to understand the role of material defects on electrical and chemical transport and polarization in electronic ceramics. She is a past editor and current associate editor of the Journal of the American Ceramic Society and serves on the editorial board of Microscopy and Microanalysis. From 2013 through 2021, she served as the Director of the Center for Dielectrics and Piezoelectrics, a National Science Foundation Industry University Cooperative Research center. She also served as the president of the American Ceramic Society from 2021-2022. In recognition of her research achievements, she was awarded the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), and she received the Richard M. Fulrath and Sosman awards from the American Ceramic Society.