Rebecca Gallivan

Overview

Rebecca Gallivan is a materials scientist and engineer focusing on understanding micro- and nano-scale material phenomena and developing nanoscale additive manufacturing techniques. Her work looks to push new frontiers in advanced functional and structural materials for nanotechnology and expand fundamental knowledge of nanostructured materials for engineering and design applications. She received her BS in materials science and engineering from MIT and her PhD in materials science from Caltech before working as a postdoctoral scholar at ETH Zurich in Switzerland.

Research Interests

Nanostructuring; additive manufacturing; nanomechanics; structural materials; functional materials; MEMs/NEMs

Education

• BS, Materials Science and Engineering, MIT 2017
• MS, Material Science, Caltech 2022
• PhD, Materials Science, Caltech 2023

Awards

• Demetriades–Tsafka–Kokkalis Prize (nanotechnology), 2023
• Amazon AI4Science Fellow, 2022
• Kavli Nanoscience Institute Catalyst Award, 2022

Professional Activities

• Organizer, Gordon Research Seminar: Solid State Studies in Ceramics, 2024
• Organizer, Gordon Research Seminar: Physical Metallurgy, 2025

Selected Publications

• M.A. Saccone*, R.A. Gallivan*, K. Narita, D.W. Yee, and J.R. Greer. (2022) "Additive manufacturing of micro-architected metals via hydrogel infusion," Nature. 612, 685–690
• R.A. Gallivan, Z.H. Aitken, A. Chamoun-Farah, Y.W. Zhang, and J.R. Greer (2023) "Microstructure-driven mechanical and electromechanical phenomena in additively manufactured nanocrystalline zinc oxide," Nanotechnology. 35, 065706
• W. Zhang, Z. Li, R. Dang, T.T. Tran, R.A. Gallivan, H. Gao, and J.R. Greer. (2023) "Suppressed size effect in nanopillars with hierarchical microstructures enabled by nanoscale additive manufacturing," Nano Letters. 23 (17), 8162-8170
• M.W. Kim*, M.L. Lifson*, R.A. Gallivan, J.R. Greer, B.J. Kim. (2022) "Enabling Durable Ultralow-k Capacitors with Enhanced Breakdown Strength in Density-Variant Nanolattices," Advanced Materials. 35 (6), 2208409

Courses

• ENGS 85.13: Fundamentals of Additive Manufacturing from Processing to Design
• ENGG 199.17: Fundamentals of Additive Manufacturing from Processing to Design