Kathryn Ann Moler (born c. 1966) is an American physicist, and current dean of research at Stanford University.
[2] After working as a visiting scientist at IBM T.J. Watson Research Center in 1995, she held a postdoctoral position at Princeton University from 1995 to 1998.
She currently works in the Geballe Laboratory for Advanced Materials (GLAM),[3] and is the director of the Center for Probing the Nanoscale (CPN),[4] a National Science Foundation-funded center where Stanford and IBM scientists continue to improve scanning probe methods for measuring, imaging, and controlling nanoscale phenomena.
These are two properties that are normally incompatible, since "superconducting materials, which conduct electricity with no resistance and 100 percent efficiency, normally expel any magnetic field that comes near them.
In May 2018, Moler was named vice provost and dean of research at Stanford University, effective September 1, 2018.