She holds a full professorship and has been a professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Arizona since 2019.
Her PhD thesis investigated the characterization of ferromagnetic materials by Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM).
[4] Folks completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Western Australia in the AFM characterization of nanoscale permanent magnetic materials.
[5] In 2019, she joined the University of Arizona as a professor of electrical and computer engineering,[6] where she was also appointed senior vice president for academic affairs and provost.
[7][8][9][10] Folks is a co-inventor on 12 U.S. patents and is a co-author on approximately 60 peer-reviewed articles that have attracted more than 13,300 citations, and reviewed candidate theses for the award of Doctor of Philosophy.