“Whenever possible, always try to use your science to make the world a better place.” – Prof. Mildred Dresselhaus
Credit: Steve Zylius/UCI
Assistant Professor
Department of Materials Science and Engineering
Department of Physics and Astronomy
Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Department of Chemistry
ISEB 5072
(949)-824-8181
stacy.copp@uci.edu
CV
Stacy joined the UCI faculty in 2019. Her research focuses on nanoscale photonic materials made of soft matter building blocks, biomimetic nanomaterials, and materials informatics approaches to nanoscience. Stacy was a Hoffman Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellow at Los Alamos National Laboratory, where she also held a UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship, a L’Oreal USA for Women in Science Fellowship, and a LANL Director’s Postdoctoral Fellowship. At UCI, her research has been recognized by awards such as the AFOSR YIP, DOE Early Career Research Program, ARL/DEVCOM Early Career Award, NIH Director’s New Innovator Award, Scialog Fellowship, and Hellman Fellowship.
Education
2011 – BS, Physics and Mathematics, University of Arizona
2013 – MA, Physics, University of California Santa Barbara
2016 – PhD, Physics, University of California Santa Barbara