Susan B. Sinnott

Susan Buthaina Sinnott is professor and head of materials science and engineering at Pennsylvania State University. Sinnott is a fellow of the Materials Research Society (MRS), the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and the American Physical Society (APS). She has served as editor-in-chief of the journal Computational Materials Science since 2014.

Early life and education Sinnott received a bachelors of science in chemistry at the University of Texas at Austin. She moved to Iowa State University for her graduate studies, and earned her doctoral degree in physical chemistry in 1993. Sinnott made an openly licensed video about "Using Computers to Create New Materials" in 2015 After two years at the Naval Research Laboratory, Sinnott was appointed an assistant professor at the University of Kentucky.

Sinnott's research involves the development of computational methods to understand the electronic and atomic structure of materials. She has investigated the formation and role of grain boundaries, dopants, defects and heterogeneous interfaces. Her research has considered perovskites, showing that the alignment or tilting of the perovskite oxygen cages impacts the materials properties. Sinnott has served as editor-in-chief of the scientific journal Computational Materials Science since 2014.

Selected awards and honours Her awards include: 2005 Elected a fellow of the American Vacuum Society 2009 Distinguished editor of the Physical Review Letters 2010 Elected a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science 2011 Elected a fellow of the American Ceramic Society 2013 Elected a fellow of the American Physical Society 2013 Top 25 Women Professors in Florida

Selected publications Her publications Model of carbon nanotube growth through chemical vapor deposition Carbon nanotubes: synthesis, properties, and applications Effect of chemical functionalization on the mechanical properties of carbon nanotubes