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= Liesl Folks = Liesl Folks is an Australian physicist and the current Dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at the University at Buffalo. Folks has specialized in using scanning probe microscopy techniques to study and develop magnetic materials and nanotechnology. She holds 14 US patents,

Career
Folks received a BSc. and a PhD, both from the University of Western Australia in Perth in physics in 1989 and 1994 respectively. She also received an MBA from Cornell University in 2004. Upon completion of her PhD, Folks stayed at UWA first as a Research Associate in the Special Research Center for Advanced Mineral & Materials Processing until 1995 and then as a Research Fellow until 1997. Folks completed a post-doctoral study at the IBM Almaden Research Center where she later became a Research Staff Member in 1999.

Notable Achievements
Founding member of IBM Almaden Women's Networking Group