Luisa Amelia Dempere received her Ph.D. in Materials Science from the University of Florida in 1999. After receiving her doctorate, she was appointed as the Director of the Major Analytical Instrumentation Center (MAIC) in the Materials Science and Engineering department at UF. She has been the director of MAIC for the last 12 years, and this July became also the director of the Particle Analysis Instrumentation Center (PAIC). She is an Engineer faculty in the department of Materials Science and Engineering, an Affiliated faculty of EES, and the Chair of the UF’s President’s Council on Diversity. Her initial research interest in materials characterization and analysis has expanded to the areas of structural materials, sustainability and green materials.
materials characterization and analysis, sustainable materials, sustainability in engineering.
