Alexandra Navrotsky

Early life and education She graduated from Bronx High School of Science in New York. She received B.S. (1963), M.S. (1964), and Ph.D. (1967) in physical chemistry from University of Chicago, where she studied with Ole J. Kleppa. In 2001, she was chosen as the Edward Roessler Chair in Mathematical and Physical Sciences. From 2013 to 2017, she was interim dean of Mathematical and Physical Sciences in the College of Letters and Sciences, at University of California, Davis. She is currently a Regents Professor at Arizona State University and has directed the Navrotsky-Eyring Center for Materials of the Universe since 2019. The center’s main goals are to better understand planet formation, composition, and evolution.

Nanomaterials Her research is mainly focused on the structure and the stability of both natural and synthetic nanomaterials along with their dependence of temperature and pressure. She is also looking into the application of nanomaterials in geochemical pollutant transport in the air as it relates to the global climate change.

Awards and honors Alfred P. Sloan Fellow (1973) Mineralogical Society of America Award and Fellow (1981) American Geophysical Union Fellow (1988) Member, National Academy of Sciences (1993) President, Mineralogical Society of America (1992–1993) Honorary doctorate from the Faculty of Science and Technology at Uppsala University, Sweden (1995) Ross Coffin Purdy Award, American Ceramic Society Fellow (1995) Geochemical Society Fellow (1997) Alexander M. Cruickshank Award, Gordon Research Conference (2000) Hugh Huffman Memorial Award, The Calorimetry Conference (2000) Ceramic Educational Council Outstanding Educator Award (2000) American Ceramic Society Fellow (2001) American Ceramic Society, Best Paper Award of the Nuclear and Environmental Technology Division (2001) Benjamin Franklin Medal in Earth Science (2002) Highly Cited Researchers Award, ISI Thomson Scientific (2002) Fellow, The Mineralogical Society (Great Britain) (2004) Urey Medal, European Association of Geochemistry (EAG) (2005) Spriggs Phase Equilibria Award, American Ceramic Society (ACerS)(2005) Rossini Award, International Association of Chemical Thermodynamics (IACT)(2006) Harry H. Hess Medal, American Geophysical Union (AGU)(2006) Roebling Medal, Mineralogical Society of America (2009) W. David Kingery Award, American Ceramic Society (2016) Science Professional Member, The World Academy of Ceramics (2022)

Publications

Her other publications can be found on: https://search.asu.edu/profile/3503975