Roopali Kukreja joined Materials Science and Engineering department at UC Davis as an Assistant Professor in Fall 2016.  She received her B.S. in Metallurgical Engineering and Materials Science from the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay in 2008 and then her M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Materials Science and Engineering from Stanford University in 2011 and 2014, respectively.  Prior to her appointment at UC Davis, Kukreja worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the UC San Diego. Her research interests at UC Davis focuses on ultrafast dynamics in nanoscale magnetic and electronic materials, time resolved X-ray diffraction and imaging techniques at synchrotron/XFEL sources. She is recipient of AFOSR Young Investigator Award (2018), NRC Faculty Development Award (2019), DOE Early Career Award (2021) and NSF Early Career Award (2022), College of Engineering Outstanding Faculty Award (2024).