Biography

Silvija Gradečak-Garaj is a Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at NUS, where she founded a University-level Center for Electron Microscopy and Materials Characterization Laboratory. Since 2020, she has been the lead PI and co-Director of the Applied Materials-NUS Advanced Materials Corporate Lab. From 2019-2020, she also served as a Director within the Office of a Deputy President for Research and Technology at NUS.

Prof. Gradečak started her academic career in 2006 at MIT, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, and reached Full Professorship in 2017. She obtained her M.S. and PhD in Physics from the University of Zagreb and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne, respectively. In 2003, she was awarded the Swiss National Science Foundation Fellowship for Prospective Researchers and spent two years as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Harvard University, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology.

Prof. Gradečak is a member of the NUS Graduate School of Integrative Sciences & Engineering and was a PI within the Low Energy Electronics Interdisciplinary Research Program under the SMART centre of CREATE Singapore.

Prof. Gradečak is a recipient of the NSF CAREER Award, 3M Innovation Award, Inaugural 2012 Nano Letters Young Investigator Lectureship, and MIT Graduate Materials Council Outstanding Teaching Award, among others.