Cynthia Jeanne Jenks is an American physical chemist whose research has involved the surface properties of silver and of quasicrystals, observed through scanning tunneling microscopy and photoelectron spectroscopy. She is associate laboratory director for physical sciences at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory.[1]

Education and career

Jenks majored in chemical engineering at the University of California, Los Angeles, graduating in 1986. She went to Columbia University for graduate study in chemistry, where she earned a master's degree in 1988, and completed her doctorate in 1992.[2]

After postdoctoral research at Iowa State University she became a permanent research staff member at the Ames National Laboratory of the United States Department of Energy, located at Iowa State University, in 1995. In 2017 she moved from Ames to the Argonne National Laboratory as director of the Chemical Sciences and Engineering Division,[2] and in 2021 she moved again to the Oak Ridge National Laboratory as associate laboratory director for physical sciences.[3]

Recognition

In 2011, Jenks was named as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, for "major discoveries about surfaces of aluminum-rich quasicrystals, for sustained scientific outreach, and leadership in scientific planning within the Ames Laboratory of the U.S. Department of Energy".[2]

References

  1. ↑ "Cynthia Jenks", About ORNL, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, retrieved 2022-09-16
  2. 1 2 3 "Cynthia Jenks named director of Argonne's Chemical Sciences and Engineering Division", EurekAlert, American Association for the Advancement of Science, June 8, 2017, retrieved 2022-09-16
  3. ↑ Jenks named associate laboratory director for physical sciences, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, March 19, 2021, retrieved 2022-09-16
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