Cynthia Ann Volkert (born 1960) is a nanoscientist whose research focuses on the properties of nanoporous materials, particularly metals including gold, other nano-scale metals, and their machining and fabrication using focused ion beams, vapor deposition, and dealloying.
Born in the US, and educated in Canada and the US, she works in Germany as professor and director of the Institute for Materials Physics of the University of Göttingen.
[2][3] Her dissertation, Flow and Relaxation of Amorphous Metals, was supervised by Frans Spaepen.
She took her current position as professor at the Institute for Materials Physics of the University of Göttingen in 2007.
[5] Volkert was elected to the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina in 2011.