Dalia Yablon Ph.D

Founder, SurfaceChar

Dalia Yablon is the founder of SurfaceChar, an AFM and nanoindentation company offering measurement, consulting, and training services in the Greater Boston area since 2013 after spending 11 years as a Member of Technical Staff at ExxonMobil Research and Engineering.  In addition to editing a book on “SPM in Industrial Applications” (Wiley), Dalia’s research focuses on nanomechanical characterization methods/soft material characterization and recently has begun to explore machine learning methods for AFM.   She also serves as Technical Program Chair of TechConnect World.  Dalia holds an A.B. in Chemistry from Harvard University and a Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry from Columbia University.