Nina Orlovskaya joins the faculty of the Department of Materials Sciences and Engineering as an assistant professor. She comes to Michigan Tech from Drexel University.

Orlovskaya holds a PhD in Materials Science from the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences and an MS in Ceramics from the Kiev Polytechnic Institute.

Her research interests include ceramics for energy application, hysteresis, metastability and aftereffect in ceramics, nonelastic ferroelastic behavior of ceramics, phase transformations and domain switching in perovskites under loading, TEM, raman spectroscopy and XRD analysis in materials research, design of residual stresses in ceramic layered composites and mechanical performance and reliability of ceramics.

Orlovskaya has published papers in numerous journals, such as Physical Review B, Journal of Materials Science, Acta Materialia, Journal of the American Ceramic Society, Key Engineering Materials, Composites Science and Technology, the Journal of Materials Processing and Manufacturing Science and Journal of the European Ceramic Society. She also holds a patent, "Batch for the Ceramic Tools Materials on Al2O3-Based Ceramics."

Orlovskaya is the recipient of the Norwegian Research Council Fellowship, the National Research Council Fellowship, the Austrian Technical Fellowship and the DAAD Fellowship. She also received the American Physical Society Award and the NATO Expert in a High Technology Area.

She was previously a research assistant professor at Drexel University, a research engineer for the University of Illinois and senior research associate at the Academy of Sciences of Ukraine's Institute of Materials Science.