Shalini Tripathi is a Materials Scientist at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory specializing in advanced electron microscopy and nanoscale characterization of functional materials and currently serves on the CINT User Executive Committee. Her current work integrates nanoscale microscopy with materials design to enable resilient materials for next-generation nuclear energy systems.
Expertise
- Synthesis and characterization of functional nanomaterials finding applications in energy conversion, catalysis, thin-films, semi-conductor, and data storage
- Detailed microstructural characterization of nanomaterials using scanning transmission electron microscopy to improve understanding of fundamental materials science or chemical behavior
- In-Situ transmission electron microscopy for real-time monitoring of nanoscale, including deformation at the nanoscale
Education
PhD, Materials Science, Indian Institute of Science
MS, BS, Organic Chemistry, Botany and Chemistry, D.D.U. Gorakhpur University, India
Awards
- Innovation in Research Team of The Year Award, Nuclear Sciences Directorate (NSsD), PNNL, 2022
- IFSM Young Scientists Assembly Award, International Microscopy Congress (IMC19), 2018
- Best Poster, International Conference of Electron Microscopy and XXXVII Annual Meeting of Electron Microscope Society of India (EMSI), 2016
- Non-European Scholarship, International Microscopy Congress, 2014
