Judith A. Todd is a British-American materials scientist whose research topics have included multilayered coatings, the properties of metal alloys and ceramics, the use of lasers in the nondestructive analysis of materials, and the history of ancient metallurgy.
She is the P. B. Breneman Chair at Pennsylvania State University, where she heads the Department of Engineering Science and Mechanics.
[2] After postdoctoral research at Imperial College and Stony Brook University, she became a researcher on a project in the development of new steel alloys at the University of California, Berkeley, funded by the Department of Energy.
From there she moved to faculty positions at the University of Southern California, and, in 1990, the Illinois Institute of Technology, where she was named the Iron and Steel Society Professor in 1995 and, later, associate dean for research.
[3] In 2006 she won the Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics, and Engineering Mentoring.