Katelyn Kirchner obtained a Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from the Pennsylvania State University, USA. She holds 2 collegiate-level Teaching Certifications and is a certified online and in-person professor. In addition to her 4 years of experience teaching, Katelyn brings 8 years of experience investigating structure-property-performance relationships in glass. Her expertise centers around glass structure, statistical mechanics of glass forming, and the physics of critical atomic glass behaviors, including glass viscosity, relaxation, crystallization, crack propagation, and heat transfer. Katelyn has worked in industrial and academic research groups in Japan, Germany, and the USA. She now studies glass melting at the manufacturing scale, as a Glass Process Scientist at CelSian.
