Brooke Richtik is a Ph.D. student in the group of Dr. Michelle Dolgos at the University of Calgary in Canada. Before joining the Dolgos research group, she completed a Master of Science at the University of Manitoba and a Bachelor of Science at the University of Winnipeg. Brooke’s current research interests lay in the understanding of structure-property-processing relationships of novel high Curie temperature ferroelectric ceramics. She is interested in how structure influences electromechanical properties, and her work includes in-situ x-ray diffraction, total scattering, and x-ray absorption spectroscopy experiments.