Arzu olak is an Assistant Professor of Physics at Clarkson University. She received her Ph.D. degree in Physics from the University of Twente (the Netherlands) in 2013. Upon completion of her Ph.D., she had postdoctoral appointments at the University of Pierre and Marie Curie (France), the INM – Leibniz Institute for New Materials (Germany), and the University of California, Merced (U.S.A.). Since July 2020 at Clarkson University, Dr. olak has been conducting research in the field of surface and interface physics with atomic force microscopy-based methods