Christine Broadbridge

Christine Caragianis Broadbridge, a 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, physics, and nanotechnology. She has served as principal investigator or co-principal investigator on over 12 National Science Foundation (NSF) projects and as researcher on over a dozen others. Broadbridge participated in the establishment and serves as education director for the Center for Research on Interface Structures and Phenomena (CRISP) at Yale and SCSU and is a Visiting Fellow in Applied Physics at Yale. She is the founding Director for the Connecticut State Colleges and Universities Center for Nanotechnology, Werth Industry Academic Fellowship Program, SCSU Division of Research and Innovation, the SCSU Innovation HUB and the BioScience Academic and Career Pathway Initiative (BioPath). Dr. Broadbridge is a member of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences, a member of Sigma Pi Sigma and Tau Beta Pi (national honor societies for physics and engineering respectively), Board of Directors for the Materials Research Society, and she recently completed a two-year team as President for the CT Academy of Science and Engineering (CASE).