| Julie Borchers | |
| Birth Date: | 1962 |
| Nationality: | American |
| Fields: | Neutron Condensed Matter Science |
| Workplaces: | NIST |
| Alma Mater: | University of Dayton (BS), University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign (PhD) |
Julie Ann Borchers (born 1962) is an American physicist.
Borchers received her B.S. in physics at the University of Dayton in 1984. She completed a Ph.D. at University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign in 1990. Borcher's doctoral advisor was Myron Salamon. Her dissertation was titled Structural and magnetic properties of erbium thin films and Er/Y superlattices.[1]
Borchers is part of the Neutron-Condensed Matter Science Group at the National Institute of Standards and Technology.[2] She works as associate director for the Center for High Resolution Neutron Scattering (CHRNS) and is an instrument scientist for the polarized beam reflectometer (PBR).
She acts as chair-elect for the APS Topical Group on Magnetism and its Applications (GMAG), working on bringing together students, scientists and engineers to advance the study and applications of magnetism.[3] Her term as chair-elect is May 2020 to March 2021.[4]
She was elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 2002.[5]
She was awarded NIST 2022 Distinguished Mentoring Award.[6]