Theresa S. Mayer received the B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from Virginia Tech in 1988, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Purdue University in 1989 and 1993.  In 1994, she joined the Department of Electrical Engineering at Penn State University-University Park, where she is a Professor.  Dr. Mayer was appointed as an Associate Director of the Penn State University Materials Research Institute in 2006, where she serves as the Technical Director of Penn State Nanofabrication Facility.  She is also the Director of the Penn State Site of the National Science Foundation National Nanotechnology Infrastructure Network (NSF-NNIN).  Her interests are in the areas of nanoscale electronic and optical device fabrication, integration, and characterization.  Her group currently has funded projects in semiconductor nanowire electronics, self-assembly of chemical and biological sensors on CMOS chips, metallo- and all-dielectric metamaterials, and molecular electronic devices.  Prof. Mayer was a Kodak Fellow (1990-1993) and the recipient of a National Science Foundation CAREER Award (1995), and a Penn State Engineering Society Outstanding Teaching Award (2000).  She served as the General Chair of the IEEE Device Research Conference and the Chair of the Gordon Research Conference on the Chemistry and Physics of Nanostructure Fabrication in 2006.  Dr. Mayer holds 5 U.S. Patents and is the co-author of over 90 journal publications.

Selected Publications

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