She also holds The John F. Heil, Jr. Chancellor's Chair in Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, and is the Associate Dean of Undergraduate Affairs in the College of Chemistry at UC Berkeley.
[2] She was a postdoctoral scholar at Penn State and an IBM fellow at UC Santa Barbara before moving to the University of California, Berkeley in 1993.
Maboudian's research is in the area of surface and materials science and engineering of micro/nanosystems, towards applications in sensing, health and environmental monitoring, energy technologies and sustainability.
Her early Berkeley research involved pioneering fundamental studies of surface and interfacial phenomena in microelectromechanical systems.
These studies paved the way for the development of surface modifications to combat the problem of stiction, considered a key bottleneck in MEMS commercialization.