Kristen A. Fichthorn is an American chemical engineer and condensed matter physicist whose research involves computational simulation, multiscale modeling, and molecular dynamics of interfaces, thin films, colloids, catalysis, nanostructures, and other material processes.
[3] Fichthorn's research focus on applying atomistic simulation techniques, such as Monte Carlo methods and molecular dynamics, quantum mechanics, and condensed-matter theory to study materials interfaces.
Fichthorn's research interest include: Fichthorn was named as a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) in 2010, after a nomination from the APS Division of Condensed Matter Physics, "for simulations that revealed new phenomena in the kinetics of reaction systems, self-assembly of nanostructures, and diffusion in mesoporous systems".
[7] She was the recipient of the 2019 Nanoscale Science and Engineering Forum Award of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers,[8] and one of two 2020 Langmuir Lecturers of the American Chemistry Society Colloid & Surface Division.
[9] She received NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award in 1990 which is recognized by Penn State for her outstanding research and teaching.