She earned her Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering at Penn State in 2009 and joined the Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of Notre Dame as a Research Assistant Professor (2009 – 2015). At Pitt and Notre Dame, she has extended her Ph.D. work on polymer electrolytes for energy storage to include applications in nanoelectronics based on 2D crystals. During the spring of 2016, Fullerton was named an ORAU Ralph E. Powe Jr. Faculty Award winner. Dr. Fullerton serves as a faculty participant in Pitt’s Graduate Women in Engineering Network (GWEN), a newly recognized student organization whose mission is to retain women in STEM fields and to promote women in leadership. Abstract