Leigh Winfrey is an associate professor in the Ken and Mary Alice Lindquist Department of Nuclear Engineering. Winfrey received her Ph.D. in mechanical engineering and her M.S. in physics from North Carolina State University, both with minors in nuclear engineering. She received a B.A. in chemistry and mathematics and a B.S. in physics from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and is a member of Sigma Xi: The Scientific Research Honor Society. In addition to her position at Penn State, Winfrey is the editor of Fusion Science and Technology, the leading source of information on fusion plasma physics and plasma engineering, fusion plasma enabling science and technology, fusion nuclear technology and material science, fusion applications, fusion design, and system studies.