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

Education

Borchers received her B.S. in physics at the

University of Dayton The University of Dayton (UD) is a private, Catholic research university in Dayton, Ohio. Founded in 1850 by the Society of Mary, it is one of three Marianist universities in the nation and the second-largest private university in Ohio. The univ ...

in 1984. She completed a Ph.D. at

University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (U of I, Illinois, University of Illinois, or UIUC) is a public land-grant research university in Illinois in the twin cities of Champaign and Urbana. It is the flagship institution of the Un ...

in 1990. Borcher's doctoral advisor was

Myron Salamon Myron of Eleutherae ( grc, Μύρων, ''Myrōn'' ), working c. 480–440 BC, was an Athenian sculptor from the mid-5th century BC. He was born in Eleutherae on the borders of Boeotia and Attica. According to Pliny's '' Natural History'', Agelada ...

. 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

National Institute of Standards and Technology The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is an agency of the United States Department of Commerce whose mission is to promote American innovation and industrial competitiveness. NIST's activities are organized into physical s ...

. 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 APS 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

Fellow of the American Physical Society The American Physical Society honors members with the designation ''Fellow'' for having made significant accomplishments to the field of physics Physics is the natural science that studies matter, its fundamental constituents, its mot ...

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