Biography
Khalid Hattar is a Principal Member of the Technical Staff and scientist at Sandia National Laboratories and the Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies. He received a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from University of California, Santa Barbara and a Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign in 2009. He specializes in determining the property-microstructure relationship for a variety of structural, electrical, and optical materials through in-situ TEM in various extreme environments, as well as tailoring local properties of materials through ion beam modification.