Luling Sun

EDUCATION

University of California, Berkeley, Materials Science and Engineering                      Jan. 2008 ~ Present
University of California, Berkeley, B.S. in Materials Science and Engineering          Aug. 2003 ~ May 2007

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

Graduate Student Researcher, Materials Science Division - Robert Ritchie, Ph.D., Sc.D.
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA
Jan. 2008 ~ Present
- Fatigue and fracture of biomedical materials & mineralized biological tissue
- A comparison of techniques for the measurement of bone mineral density

Senior Honors Research, Dept. of Materials Science & Engineering - Ting Xu, Ph.D
Jan. 2007 ~ May 2007
- Nanostructures of Diblock Copolymer Thin Films

Research Assistant, Superconducting Magnet Group - Daniel Dietderich, Ph.D
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, U.S. Department of Energy
Apr. 2005 ~ Aug. 2007
- Metallurgical preparation, fabrication, characterization & testing of superconducting accelerator magnets for High Energy Physics applications
- Microstructural, chemical & metallurgical failure analysis
- SEM/EDS analysis, optical microscope & image analysis
- Mentorship of research interns and student researchers
A. K. Ghosh, L. D. Cooley, D. R. Dietderich and L. Sun, "Transport and Magnetization Properties
of Rolled RRP Nb3Sn Strands", 20th Biennial Conference on Magnet Technology (2007).

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Graduate Student Instructor
MSE 104: Materials Characterization
Jan. 2008 ~ May 2008
- Instruct and provide experimental training and supervision of upper division undergraduates on different methods of X-ray analysis

Tutor
Tutor.com Homework Help Program.
Aug. 2007 ~ Nov. 2007
- Provide live homework help in math and science online

Undergraduate Course Instructor
MSE 198: Field Trip class
Sept. 2006 ~ May 2007
- Organize & arrange corporate tours for engineering students

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