Melissa Santala

Portrait of Melissa Santala

Melissa Santala

Associate Professor
Organizations
Mechanical, Industrial, and Manufacturing Engineering
Address

College of Engineering 307 Dearborn
Corvallis, OR 97331
United States

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
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.