April Brown, Duke

April Brown’s research focus is on the synthesis and design of electronic materials for devices and the properties of semiconductor- and metal-based nanostructures. Professor Brown received her B.S.E.E. in 1981 from North Carolina State University, and her M.S.E.E. and Ph.D. from Cornell University in 1984 and 1985. She started her career as an Assistant Professor at the University of Michigan in 1985 and joined the Hughes Research Laboratories in 1986 as a Member of the Technical Staff. When she left HRL in 1994 she held the position of Sr. Scientist after holding the position of Section Head from 1989-1991. In addition, she was a Program Manager in the Physics Division at ARO in 1988-1989. She joined Georgia Tech as an Associate Professor in 1994 and held the position of the Pettit Professor in Microelectronics when she left in 2002 to join Duke University. She also served as Associate Dean in the College of Engineering at Georgia Tech from 1999-2001, and Executive Assistant to the President from 2001-2002. She is currently a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Duke University. She served as Department Chair in ECE at Duke from 2002-2006 and Sr. Associate Dean for Research from 2007-2011. She was also Senior Research Scientist in Electronics at the Army Research Office from 2015-2017. She is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.