Mark Walters

Mark Walters served as the Director of the Shared Materials Instrumentation Facility (SMIF) at Duke University from its inception in 2022 until 2025.   He was responsible for the operations, administration and finances of SMIF; which operates as an interdisciplinary shared use facility that provides advanced capabilities in clean room fabrication, imaging, and materials characterization to Duke University researchers from the various schools and departments as well as to external users from other Universities, government laboratories or industry. Dr. Walters is also an adjunct professor in the Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science Department of Duke University’s Pratt School of Engineering.  He is the instructor for an interdisciplinary nanotechnology materials laboratory course.  Dr. Walters’ has over 20 years of experience and expertise in X-Ray Photospectroscopy (XPS), X-Ray Diffraction (XRD), Electron Microscopy, and micro and nano fabrication, He is an author on over 15 papers and holds 10 patents.