Mary Anne White received her BSc in Honors Chemistry from the University of Western Ontario (London, Canada) and her PhD in Chemistry from McMaster University (Hamilton, Canada). She held an NSERC postdoctoral fellowship at Oxford University, and then was an NSERC University Research Fellow at U...
Mary Anne White received her BSc in Honors Chemistry from the University of Western Ontario (London, Canada) and her PhD in Chemistry from McMaster University (Hamilton, Canada). She held an NSERC postdoctoral fellowship at Oxford University, and then was an NSERC University Research Fellow at University of Waterloo. In 1983 she moved to Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, where she is now University Research Professor in Chemistry and Physics and, from 2002 to 2008, she was Director of the Institute for Research in Materials. Her research interests centre on thermal properties of materials, especially where dynamical disorder is involved. This includes thermal stability, phase transitions, thermal conductivity and thermal expansion, ranging from fundamental approaches to applications as diverse as heat storage materials, thermoelectrics for solid state cooling, and separation science.