STEMoirs

This is an archived episode of STEMoirs, previously called PodQESST.
Sebastian and Joe are joined by Tara Nietzold, who discusses her work as a Ph.D. student using synchrotron x-rays on CIGS solar cells, what it's like working at a national lab facility, and how she's gotten to travel the world with her work. Sebastian and Joe experience technical difficulties, and fail at figuring out how to un-distort the audio. But the show must go on!

Music credits:
RetroFuture Clean and Furious Freak by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License
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This is an archived episode of STEMoirs, previously called PodQESST.
Sebastian and Joe meet with Rebecca Glaudell, Ph.D. candidate at the California Institute of Technology.
She discusses how she got started in graduate school, her work developing II-VI semiconductors to improve solar cell efficiency, and her involvement as president of the student leadership council in QESST, a solar energy engineering research center formed between 8 U.S. universities.

Music credits:
RetroFuture Clean and Furious Freak by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

This is an archived episode of STEMoirs, previously called PodQESST.
Meet the podcast hosts! Sebastian Husein and Joe Karas, Ph.D. candidates at Arizona State University, sit down to chat about how they got into graduate school and their research projects.
Joe's work is in replacing silver contacts on solar cells with copper to reduce solar panel costs, while Sebastian develops and tests transparent conducting oxides, a unique material that will enable next-generation solar panels.

Music credits:
RetroFuture Clean and Furious Freak by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/