Olivia Hendricks, PhD

Olivia Hendricks is a Senior Hardware Reliability Engineer, Failure Analysis at Google, Inc.

Olivia studied chemistry at Stanford University where she worked jointly for Professor Chris Chidsey, also a Hertz Fellow, in chemistry and Professor Paul McIntyre in materials science and engineering. Her PhD research used atomic layer deposition to fabricate more stable catalysts for water oxidation. The ability to efficiently generate electrons from water is essential for solar energy storage.

Prior to her PhD, Olivia attended Wellesley College, where she majored in chemistry. She demonstrated an early interest in scientific research, joining Professor Nolan Flynn’s lab after her freshman year and writing an honors thesis (“An Electrochemically Triggered Assembly Method for Gold Nanoparticles”). She also spent a summer working for Professor Molly Stevens at Imperial College London on nanofibrous scaffold materials for cartilage tissue engineering.