Kimberly Cook-Chennault
Rutgers university, USA
Biography
Kimberly Cook-Chennault is an Associate Professor in the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department at Rutgers University. She holds BS and MS degrees in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Michigan and Stanford University respectively; and a PhD from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Her research interests include design of integrated hybrid energy systems and investigation of the structure-property relationships in dielectric and piezoelectric films and bulk composites for sensing/actuation and energy storage/harvesting. Cook-Chennault’s research group, the Hybrid Energy Systems and Materials Laboratory, conducts work to understand the mechanisms and processing parameters that enable control of physical material characteristics.