Dr. Mewes joined the Materials Sciences and Engineering Division of the Office of Basic Energy Sciences at the U.S. Department of Energy in November 2021 as program manager for the Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics program. Before joining DOE Dr. Mewes was a professor of Physics and Material Science at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa. She specialized in magnetic and topological materials, spintronics and spin logic, and spin- and magnetization-dynamics. Dr. Mewes received her M.S. and her Ph.D. from the Department of Physics, at the University of Kaiserslautern in Germany.