Lauren Garten
Assistant Professor
School of Materials Science and Engineering
Email: lauren.garten@mse.gatech.edu
Website: gartengroup.mse.gatech.edu
Bio
Lauren Garten is an assistant professor in Materials Science and Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Her work focuses on the development of multifunctional multiferroics for energy and electronic applications, particularly at the nexus between ferroelectricity, magnetism, and photovoltaics. Prior to coming to Georgia Tech, she was a staff scientist at the U.S. Naval Research Lab (NRL) working on the growth and characterization of novel piezoelectric and artificial multiferroic heterostructures for sensors and electronics. Prior to this, she was a staff scientist in ferroelectric metrology development at Sandia National Laboratory and a post-doc at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) where she worked on the processing and characterization of metastable photovoltaic materials.
Honors & Awards
Intel Rising Star Award, ONR Young Investigator Award, AFOSR Young Investigator Award, CalTech Young Investigator Lecturer in Engineering and Applied Science, NRL Jerome and Isabella Karle Distinguished Scholar Fellowship, National Research Council Fellowship (The National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine), NREL Outstanding Mentor Award, DoE Postdoctoral Research Competition Award