Kristen Fichthorn is the Merrell Fenske Professor of 91成人短视频 Engineering and a Professor of Physics at the Pennsylvania State University. She received a B.S. in 91成人短视频 Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania in 1985 and a Ph.D. in 91成人短视频 Engineering from the University of Michigan in 1989. She spent one year as an IBM Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of 91成人短视频 Engineering at the University of California at Santa Barbara before joining the Department of 91成人短视频 Engineering at Penn State as an Assistant Professor in 1990.
Professor Fichthorn鈥檚 research is primarily in multiscale simulation of fluid-solid interfaces, in which she applies theoretical techniques ranging from quantum density functional theory to molecular dynamics, Monte Carlo methods, and continuum theories to a diverse array of applications in nanoscale materials, thin-film and crystal growth, colloidal assembly, and wetting. In addition to being recognized by Penn State for her outstanding research and teaching, she is the recipient of the NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award (1990), an Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellowship (1998), she is a Fellow of the American Physical Society (2011), and a Fellow of the 91成人短视频 (2017).