Julie Ann Borchers (born 1962) is an American physicist.

Education

Borchers received her B.S. in physics at the

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in 1984. She completed a Ph.D. at

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in 1990. Borcher's doctoral advisor was Myron Salamon. Her dissertation was titled ''Structural and magnetic properties of erbium thin films and Er/Y superlattices''.

Career and research

Borchers is part of the Neutron-Condensed Matter Science Group at the

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. She works as Associate Director for the Center for High Resolution Neutron Scattering (CHRNS) and is an Instrument Scientist for the Polarized Beam Reflectometer (PBR). She acts as chair-elect for the

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Topical Group on Magnetism and its Applications (GMAG), working on bringing together students, scientists and engineers to advance the study and applications of magnetism. Her term as chair-elect is May 2020 to March 2021.

Awards and honours

She was elected a

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in 2002.

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* 1962 births Living people Place of birth missing (living people) National Institute of Standards and Technology people American women physicists 20th-century American physicists 21st-century American physicists 20th-century American women scientists 21st-century American women scientists Grainger College of Engineering alumni Fellows of the American Physical Society {{US-physicist-stub