Janelle Leger
She/Her, Dean, College of Science and Engineering
About
Janelle Leger began working at WWU in 2008, starting as an assistant professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy and the Department of Chemistry and moving up to professor in 2016. She served as Director of Western's Advanced Materials Science and Engineering Center (AMSEC) from 2017 to 2019, and as Chair of the Department of Physics and Astronomy from 2019 to 2022.
Dr. Leger holds a doctorate in physics from the University of California, Santa Cruz and a bachelor’s of science in physics from University of California, Davis. Prior to coming to Western, she was a postdoctoral research associate at the University of Washington’s Department of Chemistry and a National Science Foundation Discovery Corps Postdoctoral Fellow.
Dr. Leger was named a Cottrell Scholar by the Research Corporation for Science Advancement in 2015, and her group has published on topics ranging from organic electronics and plasmonics, to electrochemical processes and solar luminescent concentrators. Her current research focuses on organic and hybrid materials for electronic and optoelectronic devices, including light-emitting diodes, solar cells, memory cells, and transistors.
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