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Karin Rabe is a computational condensed-matter physicist and professor at Rutgers. She is known for her pioneering work on the theory and calculation of structural phase transitions in solids.

Education and Early Life
Born in New York City, she attended the Bronx High School of Science (class of 1978) before receiving her AB in physics from Princeton University in 1982. She received her PhD at MIT on "Ab initio statistical mechanics of structural phase transitions" under the supervision of John Joannopoulos. After a postdoc at AT&T Bell Laboratories, she joined the Department of Applied Physics and Physics at Yale University. In 2000, she moved to the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Rutgers in 2000.

Background:

Karin Rabe received her AB in physics from Princeton University (1982) and her PhD in physics from MIT (1987). Following two postdoctoral years in the Theory Department at AT&T Bell Laboratories, she joined the departments of applied physics and physics at Yale University, with tenure in 1995, and moved to the department of physics and astronomy at Rutgers in 2000. She has published more than 100 papers in the theoretical analysis and prediction of the properties of materials. Her main interests are in the application of first-principles methods to the study of systems at or near structural phase transitions, including ferroelectrics, piezoelectrics, high-k dielectrics, multiferroics and shape-memory compounds. Recently she has focused on the effects of epitaxial strain and interfaces in thin films and superlattices. She is co-editor of the book �Physics of Ferroelectrics: a Modern Perspective,� published in 2007. She is currently a member of the Editorial Boards of Physical Review B and of Journal of Physics�Condensed Matter, as well as a Trustee and Vice President of the Aspen Center for Physics. Her professional recognition includes a Presidential Young Investigator award (1990), an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship (1991) and fellowship in the American Physical Society (2003).