Melanie C. Adams

Next Position

2023 - Present, Scripps CARES Academic Program Coordinator, Scripps Institution of Oceanography

2023, Postdoc at Scripps Institution of Oceanography with Dr. Vashan Wright

Education

2023, Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara

2017, M.Sc., Materials Science and Engineering, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

2013, B.S., Materials Science and Engineering, MIT

Awards

Eugene Cota-Robles Fellowship, CNSI Heeger Fellowship, Karl Storz Research Accelerator Award, Ford Foundation Predoctoral Fellowship honorable mention 

Research

I work on extending polymer characterization through the use of noncontact, nondestructive methods such as transient grating spectroscopy.