Amy K. Flatten is an American expert on international scientific collaboration, the Director of International Affairs for the

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Education and career

Flatten is from

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, and has a master's degree and Ph.D. in engineering science and mechanics from Georgia Tech, with a 1993 doctoral dissertation research concerning

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. She worked as an industry consultant, and from 1995 to 2004 as an instructor at Johns Hopkins University in its part-time program in engineering and the sciences. From 1998 to 1999 she was in the

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. From 1999 to 2004 she worked in the

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, where she led the OSTP program on US–Russian scientific relations and the office's collaborations with the Global Science Forum of the Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development. She joined the American Physical Society as Director of International Affairs in 2004.

Recognition

Flatten was elected as a

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in 2018, after a nomination from the APS Forum on International Physics, "in recognition of her program development serving physicists worldwide, especially in support of scientists in the Middle East through the SESAME Travel Award Program, and for fostering new opportunities for international collaboration among young physicists from diverse cultural backgrounds".

Personal life

Beyond her scientific work, Flatten is an abstract oil painter, exhibiting her works in the

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area.

References

External links

Amy K. Flatten – Abstract Art
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