Alexandra Navrotsky
Ph.D., University of Chicago (1967)
Edward Roessler Chair in Mathematical and Physical Sciences; Distinguished Interdisciplinary Professor of Ceramic, Earth, and Environmental Materials Chemistry. Member of the National Academy of Sciences

Research interests have centered about relating microscopic features of structure and bonding to macroscopic thermodynamic behavior in minerals, ceramics, and other complex materials. She has made contributions to mineral thermodynamics; mantle mineralogy and high pressure phase transitions; silicate melt and glass thermodynamics; order-disorder in spinels; framework silicates; and other oxides; ceramic processing; oxide superconductors; and the general problem of structure-energy-property systematics. The main technical area of her laboratory is high temperature reaction calorimetry.

http://navrotsky.engr.ucdavis.edu/
anavrotsky@ucdavis.edu
(530) 752-3292

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