Madeline is a PhD candidate in Chemistry, working with Dr. Kwabena Bediako. For the past five years she has been imaging structural deformations in a class of two-dimensional structures called moiré superlattices. These superlattices, which are formed by stacking atomically thin crystals with a small rotation between them, have highly tunable electronic, optical, and magnetic properties that make them exciting candidates for applications ranging from energy-efficient electronic devices to catalysis for energy conversion. Using advanced electronic microscopy techniques at LBNL’s National Center for Electron Microscopy, Madeline studies how moiré materials distort due to spontaneous relaxation and in response to external stimuli, such as an electric bias. Her work aims to deepen the understanding of structure–property relationships in moiré systems and to provide a framework for leveraging structural distortions as a tuning knob for tailoring the unique behavior of these structures.