Portrait of Melissa Santala

Melissa Santala
Associate Professor
Organizations
Mechanical, Industrial, and Manufacturing Engineering
Email
melissa.santala@oregonstate.edu
Office Phone
1-541-737-8272
Address

College of Engineering 307 Dearborn
Corvallis, OR 97331
United States

Research Website
Santala Research Group
Degrees
Ph.D., Materials Science & Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, 2009
M.S., Materials Science & Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, 2005
B.S., Materials Science & Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, 2003
M.A., Art Conservation, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada, 1996
B.A., Art History, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 1993
Research Groups
Next-Generation Materials & Devices
Biography

Materials

  • At Oregon State since 2015
  • Staff Scientist, Condensed Matter and Materials Division, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, Calif., 2012 - 2015
  • Post-Doctoral Researcher, Condensed Matter and Materials Division, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, Calif., 2009 – 2012
  • Post-Doctoral Researcher, Department of Materials Science & Engineering, University of California, Berkeley 2009

Melissa Santala researches the role of surfaces and interfaces in the structural and phase stability of nanostructured materials; the kinetics of phase transformations; and has extensive experience in the application of transmission electron microscopy to problems in materials science, including aberration-corrected S(TEM) and photo-emission TEM.

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