Christine Caragianis Broadbridge, Ph. D. 
Executive Director, Research and Innovation & Prof. of Physics, Southern CT State University
Director, Connecticut State Colleges and Universities Center for Quantum & Nanotechnology
Visiting Fellow, Applied Physics, Yale Univ.; Research Scientist, Institute of Materials Science, UConn
Past President, CT Academy of Science and Engineering

Christine Broadbridge, professor of physics and Executive Director of Research and Innovation at Southern Connecticut State University (SCSU) received her M.S. and Ph.D. in engineering from Brown University, where she conducted research in the fields of materials science, semiconductor physics and nanotechnology. She started her faculty career at Trinity College in Hartford, where she established a materials science and engineering facility while also founded and directed the United Technologies/Trinity College Engineering Initiative (UTCEI), a program designed to enhance the representation of women and underrepresented minorities in engineering and science. In January of 1998, Dr. Broadbridge was appointed Visiting Fellow in Electrical Engineering at Yale University and in September of 2000 she joined the Physics Department at SCSU.

Broadbridge has served as principal investigator or co-principal investigator for over 12 National Science Foundation (NSF) projects and as researcher on over a dozen others, including grants from NASA, Brookhaven National Laboratory, and the U.S. Departments of Energy and Education. She participated as co-PI in the establishment and served as a senior researcher and education director for the Center for Research on Interface Structures and Phenomena (CRISP) at Yale/SCSU which was an NSF Materials Research Science and Engineering Center from 2005-2017. She currently holds appointments as Visiting Fellow in Applied Physics at Yale University and Research Scientist at University of Connecticut Institute of Materials Science (IMS). Broadbridge is the founding Director for the Connecticut State Colleges and Universities Center for Quantum & Nanotechnology, Werth Industry Academic Fellowship Program, SCSU Division of Research and Innovation, the SCSU Innovation HUB and the BioScience Academic & Career Pathway Initiative (BioPath). She is a member of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences, an elected member of both Sigma Pi Sigma and Tau Beta Pi (national honor societies for physics and engineering respectively), Board of Directors for QuantumCT, and she recently completed a three-year term on the Board of Directors for the Materials Research Society and two-year team as President for the CT Academy of Science and Engineering (CASE).

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