She is the Steward S. Flaschen Professor of Materials Science and Engineering and Electrical Engineering at Pennsylvania State University, Director of the W. M. Keck Smart Materials Integration Laboratory, and co-director of the Nanofabrication facility.
She went on to earn her PhD in Ceramic Science at Penn State University in 1992 while working with Professor Robert E.
[1] Trolier-McKinstry carries out research in the area of electroceramics, including work on dielectric and piezoelectric thin films.
Her research has applications in CMOS electronics and MEMS devices.
[6] She has served as an associate editor for multiple journals including IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control, the Journal of the American Ceramic Society, and Applied Physics Letters.