Jan B. Talbot | |
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| Education | Pennsylvania State University (BS, MS) University of Minnesota (PhD) |
| Occupation | Chemical engineer |
Jan B. Talbot is an American chemical engineer. Her work encompassed electrophoretic deposition, electrodeposition, chemical mechanical polishing, display screen processing, solid state lightning materials, material science and electrochemical transport phenomena and engineering. She is a professor emerita at the Jacobs School of Engineering. She completed a bachelor and Master of Science in chemical engineering at Pennsylvania State University where she was one of seven women amongst 3000 engineering students. From 1975 to 1981, Talbot was as a development engineer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. She earned a Ph.D. in chemical engineering and materials science in 1986 from University of Minnesota. She joined the faculty at Aiiso Yufeng Li Family Department of Chemical and Nano Engineering at the University of California, San Diego in 1986, and retired in 2018. Talbot was the first woman hired in the department and in 2003, she was the second woman to chair the Academic Senate at UCSD.
Talbot served as board vice president (1998-2001) and was the president of the Electrochemical Society from 2001 to 2002. In 2004, she became a fellow of the Electrochemical Society. Talbot also served as the editor of "Interface" from 1995-1998. To honor Talbot, the Electrochemical Society has established a sponsored collection of 48 of her articles to make them freely available.
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