Judy Cha, Ph.D. ’09, professor of materials science and engineering in Cornell Engineering has been elected as fellows of the American Physical Society (APS).

Cha, who is also the Lester B. Knight Director of the Cornell NanoScale Science and Technology Facility, focuses her research on synthesis and transport properties of topological and 2D nanomaterials and their phase transformations in order to understand the structure-electronic property relationships of these quantum nanomaterials. The APS cited her pioneering contributions in the development of nanoscale synthesis and characterization methods for topological nanomaterials, resulting in enhanced properties of the topological electronic states for device applications and fundamental studies.