Diane Mary Vanderwalker, PhD

Materials Research Engineer (Retired)

A Timeline of Professional Milestones

1955

Born to Wallace Vanderwalker and Mary (Wrzesien) Vanderwalker in Springfield, MA.

1977

Earns a Bachelor of Science from Boston College.

1980

Receives the Presidential Student Award from EMSA.

1981

Obtains a Doctor of Philosophy from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

1981

Is a NATO Post-Doctoral Fellow at the University of Oxford in England until 1982.

1983

Teaches as an assistant professor at SUNY Stony Brook until 1985; Earns the Stony Brook Research Award for First-Year Faculty.

1984

Publishes the paper “The nucleation of Ni silicides on dislocations and twins in silicon.”

1984

Publishes the paper “A Dark-Field TEM Method for Crystal Structure Determination of Cu-Rich Phases on Twins in Silicon.”

1984

Publishes “Defects, Atomistic Aspects, The influence of Cu on dislocation motion in Si.”

1985

Publishes the short note “The effect of doping on the motion of partial dislocations in silicon.”

1985

Publishes the paper “The dependence of Li phase nucleation on the structure of partial dislocations in silicon.”

1986

Publishes the short note “Hydrides on dislocations in silicon.”

1986

Is a materials research engineer with the U.S. Army Material Technology Laboratory (Army Research Laboratory) until retiring in 1994.

1989

Publishes the papers “Fracture in Titanium Diboride” and “Hydride Formation on Dislocations in Titanium.”

2021

Maintains membership with the New York Academy of Science.

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