Norma Sosa received the B.S. degree in chemistry/materials science and the M.S. degree in materials science and engineering from the University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA, in 2002 and 2004, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in materials science and engineering from Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, USA, in 2009.
She has been a Research Staff Member with the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY, USA, since 2009, where she has worked on layer transfer techniques of III-V and other semiconductors for photovoltaic device applications. Her research interests also include phase change memory materials and integration.