Rachel Kurchin
Assistant Research Professor
5000 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
Bio
Dr. Rachel Kurchin is an Assistant Research Professor in the Materials Science and Engineering Department. She was previously a Manufacturing Futures Initiative and Molecular Sciences Software Institute Postdoctoral Fellow in the group of Prof. Venkat Viswanathan. She completed her MPhil in Materials Science and Metallurgy from the University of Cambridge, followed by her PhD in Materials Science and Engineering at MIT, where she worked in the PVLab with Prof. Tonio Buonassisi.
Education
- 2019 Ph.D. Materials Science and Engineering, MIT
- 2014 M.Phil. Materials Science and Metallurgy, Cambridge
- 2013 B.S. Physics, Yale