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Alison Aili Baski is an American physicist and academic administrator, the dean of science at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona,[1] and a former president of the American Vacuum Society.[2] Her research has focused on surface science, and particularly on silicon surfaces.
Education and career
[edit]Baski majored in engineering physics at the University of Colorado Boulder. She completed a Ph.D. in applied physics at Stanford University.[3] Her 1991 doctoral dissertation, Scanning tunneling microscopy of metal growth and reconstruction on Si(100) and Si(111), was supervised by Calvin Quate.[4]
She became a professor of physics at Virginia Commonwealth University, with a joint appointment in engineering, and served there as chair of physics, executive associate dean, and interim dean of humanities and sciences.[3] She was the 2012 president of the American Vacuum Society.[2] In 2016 she moved to Cal Poly Pomona as dean of the College of Science.[3]
Recognition
[edit]Baski is a 2010 Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and a 2015 Fellow of the American Vacuum Society.[3]
References
[edit]- ↑ "Dean's Office Leadership and Staff", College of Science, Cal Poly Pomona, retrieved 2026-03-28
- 1 2 "Presidents", About Us, American Vacuum Society, retrieved 2026-03-28
- 1 2 3 4 "Featured Speakers", Teaching Experiment Academy, University of California, Irvine, Division of Teaching Excellence & Innovation, 2021, retrieved 2026-03-28
- ↑ Baski, Alison Aili (1991), Scanning tunneling microscopy of metal growth and reconstruction on Si(100) and Si(111) (Ph.D. thesis), Stanford University, ProQuest 9206737
External links
[edit]- Alison Baski publications indexed by Google Scholar
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