Elizabeth Carol Dickey is an American materials scientist who is the Teddy and Wilton Hawkins Distinguished Professor at Carnegie Mellon University.
[1] She moved to Northwestern University as a doctoral researcher, where she studied nickel oxide cubic zirconia.
[3] In 2011, she was made professor at North Carolina State University[4] where she oversaw the reorganization of the Analytical Instrumentation Facility and established the Center for Dielectrics and Piezoelectrics.
She combines advanced characterization techniques, e.g. electron microscopy,[6] infrared spectroscopy and ellipsometry, to understand the functional properties of materials.
[7] That year she was made Head of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University.