professor walter dietrich
elizabeth ancarana: so now,i turn to our panelists. and thanks again for comingand talking to our new faculty here today. it's just a delightthat you're here. we have katia bertoldi who'sthe john l. loeb associate professor of thenatural sciences at the johnny paulson schoolof engineering and applied sciences. after earning herph.d. in mechanics of materials and structuresfrom trento university in 2006, katia did a post-doctoralfellowship at mit and then served as anassistant professor of engineering technologyat the university of twente in the netherlands. she joined the harvardfaculty in 2010. katia's work focuseson the relationships between the internalstructure of a material and its mechanical properties. her research onmaterials, especially those with tunableproperties, has direct use in many critical fields,including acoustics, optics, and electronics. next to katia isjames, or jay mitchell who's is an associateprofessor of genetics and complex diseases at the...