Christine Broadbridge was elected to CASE in 2008. Christine served in the presidential cycle from 2018 to 2024, with her tenure as President from 2020 to 2022. Christine provided steadfast leadership to the Academy and guided it through difficult financial challenges and the pandemic. She has provided strategic direction that continues to influence the Academy. She is an energetic supporter of the Academy’s mission.
Christine is Professor of Physics and Executive Director of Research and Innovation at Southern Connecticut State University (SCSU). She started her faculty career at Trinity College in Hartford, where she established a materials science and engineering facility. She also founded and directed the United Technologies/Trinity College Engineering Initiative (UTCEI), a program designed to enhance the representation of women and underrepresented minorities in engineering and science. In January of 1998, Christine was appointed Visiting Fellow at Yale University, and, in September of 2000, she joined the Physics Department at SCSU.
Christine has served as principal investigator or co-principal investigator on over 12 National Science Foundation (NSF) projects and as researcher on over a dozen others, including grants from NASA, Brookhaven National Laboratory, and the U.S. Department of Energy. She participated as co-PI in the establishment and served as a senior researcher and education director for the Center for Research on Interface Structures and Phenomena (CRISP) at Yale/SCSU, which was an NSF Materials Research Science and Engineering Center from 2005-2017. She has held appointments as Visiting Fellow in Applied Physics and Electrical Engineering at Yale and Research Scientist at the University of Connecticut Institute of Materials Science (IMS).
Broadbridge is the founding Director for the Connecticut State Colleges and Universities (CSCU) Center for Nanotechnology (now the CSCU Center for Quantum & Nanotechnology), Werth Industry Academic Fellowship Program, SCSU Division of Research and Innovation, the SCSU Innovation HUB, and the BioScience Academic and Career Pathway Initiative (BioPath). Christine is an elected member of Sigma Pi Sigma and Tau Beta Pi (national honor societies for physics and engineering, respectively) and on the Board of Directors for the Materials Research Society.
Christine received her M.S. and Ph.D. in engineering from Brown University, where she conducted research in the fields of materials science, physics, and nanotechnology.