Debbie G. Senesky
Debbie Senesky speaks at Stanford in 2015
Alma materUniversity of Southern California
University of California, Berkeley
Scientific career
InstitutionsStanford University

Debbie Senesky is an associate professor of Aeronautics at Stanford University. She is the principal investigator of the EXtreme Environment Microsystems Laboratory, and studies nanomaterials in extreme environments.

Early life and education

Senesky was interested in maths as a child.[1] She studied mechanical engineering at the University of Southern California and was the first member of her family to go to college.[2] During her undergraduate degree she worked in a cleanroom.[1] She moved to the University of California, Berkeley for her doctoral studies, earning a Master's in 2004 and a PhD in 2007.[3] Her PhD looked at heat resistant materials and was supported by an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation fellowship. After her doctorate, Senesky worked at GE Sensing and Hewlett-Packard.[4]

Career

Senesky is an aerospace engineer who works on nanoscale sensors that can work in extreme conditions.[4] She was appointed to the aeronautics department at Stanford University in 2012. She was awarded an Early Career Faculty Space Tech Research Grant from NASA in 2012.[5] Since 2014 she has led the EXtreme Environment Microsystems Laboratory (X-Lab) at Stanford University.[6] In 2015 she designed a soot-particulate sensor with Stephen Luby.[7] The sensor was made from Gallium nitride, sapphire and metal–semiconductor interfaces.[7] She was selected as a speaker for the Stanford University Rising Stars conference in 2017.[8] She edited the 2014 SPIE volume Sensors for Extreme Harsh Environments.[9]

Women in science activities

Senesky is involved with a number of initiatives to improve diversity in science. She serves on the board of the nonprofit Scientific Adventures for Girls.[10] She delivered a keynote at the Introduce a Girl to Engineering celebration at Agilent Technologies.[11] In 2018 she chaired the Women in Aerospace Symposium at Stanford University. She appeared on the podcast People Behind the Science.[2] She is a member of the NASA space technology mission directorate.[12]

Awards and honours

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Meet Dr. Debbie G. Senesky, Emerging Leader Abie Award Winner". AnitaB.org. 2018-08-13. Retrieved 2018-12-25.
  2. 1 2 "398: Dr. Debbie Senesky: Making Materials and Developing Devices for Extreme Environments". People Behind the Science Podcast. 2017-05-22. Retrieved 2018-12-25.
  3. ↑ "Debbie G. Senesky | IEEE Electron Devices Society". eds.ieee.org. Retrieved 2018-12-25.
  4. 1 2 University, Stanford (2018-12-20). "Meet our faculty". Stanford News. Retrieved 2018-12-25.
  5. 1 2 "NASA - Universities Go to Space: NASA Announces Early Career Faculty Space Tech Research Grants". www.nasa.gov. Retrieved 2018-12-25.
  6. ↑ "Stanford XLab". xlab.stanford.edu. Retrieved 2018-12-25.
  7. 1 2 "Deployment of Soot-particulate Sensors in Flue-gas Stacks" (PDF). Stanford. Retrieved 2018-12-25.
  8. ↑ "Debbie G. Senesky – Rising Stars in EECS 2017". Retrieved 2018-12-25.
  9. ↑ Senesky, Debbie G.; Dekate, Sachin (13 June 2014). Sensors for Extreme Harsh Environments. ISBN 978-1628410501.
  10. ↑ "Scientific Adventures for Girls". Scientific Adventures for Girls. Retrieved 2018-12-25.
  11. ↑ "Agilent event aims to get girls into engineering". Santa Rosa Press Democrat. 2014-02-23. Retrieved 2018-12-25.
  12. ↑ "NASA - III-V Microsystems Components for Positioning, Navigation and Timing in Extreme Harsh Environments". www.nasa.gov. Retrieved 2018-12-25.
  13. ↑ "Creative Young Engineers Selected to Participate in NAE's 2016 U.S. Frontiers of Engineering Symposium". NAE Website. Retrieved 2018-12-25.
  14. ↑ "EDL | IEEE Electron Devices Society". eds.ieee.org. Retrieved 2018-12-25.
  15. 1 2 3 "Assistant Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics and, by courtesy, of Electrical Engineering". cap.stanford.edu. Retrieved 2018-12-25.
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