Dr. Preeti Chalsani

Preeti Chalsani focuses on drafting and prosecuting patent applications in the areas of nanoscience, nanotechnology, physics and the mechanical arts. She has knowledge and experience in micro- and nanofabrication techniques and their applications in quantum electronics, biosensors and micro and nanoelectromechanical devices. Her expertise encompasses areas such as superconductors, semiconductors, magnetism, electronic circuits, advanced materials design and analysis, numerical computation as well as scientific instrumentation, ultra-high vacuum and low temperature equipment and precision machining of metals, wood and plastics.

Her doctoral research in the emergent field of spintronics involved the fabrication and study of nanoscale magnetic devices. These “spintronics” devices are the basis for a number of electronic data storage elements and sensors as well as in quantum computation. Subsequently, Preeti was a nanotechnology consultant and NSERC Visiting Fellow in the Functional Nanomaterials Group of the National Research Council where she applied her expertise to the development of techniques for the electrical detection and identification of DNA molecules and bottom up micro-fabrication processes utilizing self-assembly of molecules.

Prior to joining MBM, Preeti was a professor in the physics department of Dawson College, Montreal.

Education

• B.S. Applied Physics, Yale University, U.S.A.
• M.S., Applied Physics, minor in Materials Science, Cornell University, U.S.A.
• Ph.D., Applied Physics, Cornell University, U.S.A.