Overview
Lydia is a Staff Engineer for Transmission Electron Microscopy (TEM) and Focused Ion Beam (FIB) techniques at Duke University's Shared Materials Instrumentation Facility (SMIF). Lydia holds an M.S. in Chemical Engineering from North Carolina State University and a B.S. in Chemistry from the University of North Georgia. She specializes in TEM and Cryo-TEM sample preparation and data collection as well as instrument maintenance and user trainings. Lydia also supports the RTNN outreach mission by helping plan and implement events for science education that engage the local community.