Stephanie Law (materials scientist)

Stephanie Law is an American materials scientist. Her research involves the use of molecular beam epitaxy to fabricate metamaterials including two-dimensional quantum materials, nanostructures, semiconductors, topological insulators, and plasmonic devices. She is an associate professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering and Wilson Faculty Fellow at Pennsylvania State University.[1]

Education and career

Law is originally from Marion, Iowa, where her father was a school band director and her mother was a schoolteacher and librarian. In high school, she took courses in astronomy and calculus at a local college.[2] She majored in physics at Iowa State University,[3] choosing physics as a reaction to her frustration with the imprecision of astronomical measurements. There, she worked with Paul C. Canfield on crystal growth,[2] and on graduating in 2006,[3] she followed Canfield's suggestion to continue in condensed matter physics.[2]

After completing a Ph.D. in physics at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in 2012,[4] she continued there as a postdoctoral researcher in electrical and computer engineering, working there with Daniel Wasserman on optical materials.[2] In 2014 she became Clare Boothe Luce Assistant Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Delaware, and in 2023 she moved to Pennsylvania State University.[1]

Recognition

Law was the 2016 recipient of the North American Molecular Beam Epitaxy Young Investigator Award, its first female recipient.[5] She also received the 2019 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers,[4] the 2019 Peter Mark Memorial Award of the American Vacuum Society (AVS),[2] and the 2020 International Conference on Molecular Beam Epitaxy Young Investigator Award. She was named a Fellow of the AVS in 2024.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Stephanie Law", Directory, Pennsylvania State University Department of Materials Science and Engineering, retrieved 2026-03-25
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 Brundle, Dick (October 24, 2019), Interview: Stephanie Law, 2019 Peter Mark Memorial Award Recipient, American Vacuum Society, retrieved 2026-03-25
  3. 1 2 "Alumna in the field: Stephanie Law (physics, '06)", Link: The Magazine for the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Iowa State University, Iowa State University, Fall 2014, retrieved 2026-03-25
  4. 1 2 "UD's Stephanie Law Wins Presidential Award", Materials Science & Engineering, University of Delaware, July 24, 2019, retrieved 2026-03-25
  5. ↑ Kukich, Diane (October 4, 2016), "Young Investigator Award: UD's Law recognized for contributions to molecular beam epitaxy", UDaily, University of Delaware, retrieved 2026-03-25
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