Sabah Bux

Sabah K. Bux received her Bachelors of Science in Chemistry, Magna Cum Laude from California State Polytechnic University Pomona in 2005 and received her Ph.D. in inorganic chemistry from UCLA in 2010. Currently she is a technical group supervisor at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory working in the thermal energy conversion materials group (3467) where she is the lead researcher in the development of high performance advanced thermoelectric materials for. Her main research focus is the investigation of novel high temperature materials and synthesis of them using novel synthetic techniques/processes. She also serves as the co-manager of the technology management portfolio for NASA’s radioisotope power systems (RPS) program office. She holds several patents and publications on the synthesis and characterization of materials such as nanostructured Si_1-xGe_x alloys, Mg₂Si, and silicon-based composites, III-V semiconductors, metal-matrix composites and complex Zintl phases. She won the 2015 International Thermoelectrics Society Young Investigator award and is the 2017 recipient of the JPL Lew Allen early career award for excellence in research and technology.