Dr.
Helen
Kerch is team lead for Scattering and
Instrumentation Sciences in the Office of Science in the US Department of
Energy. She received her B.S. in
Metallurgy and Materials Science from Columbia
University
and her M.S. and Ph.D. from Rutgers
University
in Ceramic Science. Her graduate
research included the topics of sol-gel processing, quantitative electron
microscopy and small-angle scattering. She
worked in the Electron Microscopy Group at Unilever Research US following
receipt of her doctorate. Afterward
she joined the x-ray and neutron scattering group in the Ceramics Division
at the National Institute of Standards and Technology.
There her research focused on the development of neutron
instrumentation for in-situ high temperature measurements and nanostructured
materials. She joined the
Department of Energy in 1993 and managed the neutron and x-ray
science programs for the Division of Materials Sciences in the Office of
Basic Energy Sciences. Additionally,
she has been involved in several interagency working groups (IWG) for the Office
of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP),
including the Research Integrity Panel which formulated the first
government-wide policy on research misconduct and the IWG on Neutron Science
which assessed the status and needs of major neutron scattering facilities
and instruments in the US.
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