Executive Committee

Biography:
Nathan (Nate) D. Orloff received the B.S. degree in physics with high honors and Ph.D. degree in physics from the University of Maryland (UMD) at College Park, College Park, MD, USA, in 2004 and 2010, respectively. His doctoral thesis concerned the study and measurement of microwave properties of Ruddelsden-Popper ferroelectrics.

In 2011, he was a Dean’s Postdoctoral Fellow with the Department of Bioengineering, Stanford University. In 2013, he joined the Materials Measurement Laboratory, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Gaithersburg, MD, USA, as a Rice University Postdoctoral Fellow. In 2014, he joined the Communications Technology Laboratory at NIST in Boulder Colorado. Dr. Orloff is currently the Project Leader of the Microwave Materials Project in the Communications Technology Laboratory at NIST in Boulder, Colorado. His research focus is three-fold: materials-by-design for communications, microwave materials metrology, and bridging the gap between optical and microwave on-wafer measurement science.

Dr. Orloff was the recipient of the UMD Dean's Award for Excellence for Teaching, the 2010 Michael J. Pelczar Award for Graduate Study, the 2014 Distinguished Associate at NIST, a Senior Member of the IEEE, and the 2019 Karl Schwartzwalder-Professional Achievement in Ceramic Engineering Award. He has published more than fifty peer-reviewed articles and proceedings. He holds a U.S. Patent on measuring material properties in roll-to-roll manufacturing.

Biography:
Anne Matsuura is the Director of Quantum & Molecular Technologies at Intel Labs, where she has led research teams in quantum algorithms and architecture and in innovative sensing technologies. She left her position as the Chief Scientist of The Optical Society (OSA) to come to Intel in 2014. Previously, she worked in Belgium as the Chief Executive of the European Theoretical Spectroscopy Facility (ETSF), an organization of 250 scientists throughout Europe providing scientific collaborations, modeling and simulation, and open-source software to the public and private sectors. Prior to the ETSF, Anne held positions as a senior scientist at a strategic investment firm (In-Q-Tel), as a program manager for atomic and molecular physics at the U.S. Air Force Office of Scientific Research, and as a special assistant to the U.S. Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Laboratories and Basic Science. She has also been a researcher at Lund University (MAX-Lab synchrotron facility), the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory, the University of Tokyo, and was an adjunct professor in the physics department at Boston University. Dr. Matsuura was a Fulbright Scholar at Nagoya University, a Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Fellow at Tokyo University, and an American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Science and Technology Policy Fellow. She has published over 40 articles in peer-reviewed journals and has 12 patents pending. She also is a member of the Board of Directors of Science Counts, a non-profit with the mission of enhancing the public’s perception of science. Anne is an active APS volunteer. She is currently a Member at Large on the FIAP Executive Committee and the Forum for International Physics Committee, and has previously been a member of the APS Committee on Careers & Professional Development. She has served as an industry mentor in the APS IMPact Program since 2017. Anne received her Ph.D. in Physics from Stanford University and is an elected Fellow of the OSA.

Biography:
I am a research staff member at IBM’s T. J. Watson Research center in Yorktown Heights, NY studying how quantum photonics devices can be employed to network superconducting quantum computers. After growing up in Portland, OR, I went Swarthmore College for my B.A. in Physics and then Harvard University for my Ph.D. in Physics. Following that, I was a postdoctoral fellow at University of California Santa Barbara, where I was awarded the Elings Prize in Experimental Science, and then then joined IBM Research in 2014. My current research focus is engineering nonlinear optical devices that can facilitate quantum networks. By confining light to ultra-high quality-factor optical resonators comprising electro-optic materials like silicon germanium, these devices provide an interface between superconducting quantum computers and infrared telecom light, which can transmit data over long distances. In the long run, they could be a foundation for quantum networks of quantum computers.

Biography:
Dr. Curt A. Richter is an experimental physicist and Group Leader of a dynamic team of research scientists in the Nanoelectronics Group of the Engineering Physics Division, Physical Measurement Laboratory (PML) at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). The Group conducts basic research to develop the measurement science needed for innovation in future nanoelectronic and thin-film devices. Richter has worked in the Division at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD since 1993.

Dr. Richter received the M.S., M.Phil., and Ph.D. degrees in Applied Physics from Yale University after receiving a B.S. in Physics from The College of William and Mary. After graduating from Yale, Dr. Richter joined NIST directly. Technically, he currently focuses on extracting critical properties of future nanoelectronic devices for use in high performance computing systems. He is an expert in the quantum properties of low-dimensional systems and has experience studying mesoscopic physics and quantum interference effects in semiconductor devices by using magnetotransport measurements. During Richter's tenure at NIST he has strongly engaged with the semiconductor industry through direct collaborations and through joint planning and oversight activities at the Semiconductor Research Council (SRC). Richter is an author of more than 160 technical articles and editor of one book.

Richter has engaged in many leadership and service roles at Conferences, Professional Societies, in public/private consortia, and within the Federal service: for example, American Institute of Physics (AIP) Prize Selection Committee, Frequent APS March Meeting Abstract Sorter, Member of the Technical Board of the Electronic Materials Conference (EMC), Former-Chairman of the International Semiconductor Device Research Symposium (ISDRS): Nanoelectronic Computing Research (nCORE) Science Advisory Board (SAB) member, and Nanoelectronics Research Initiative (NRI) Technical Program Group (TPG) member, Richter is a US technical expert in Nanotechnologies for ISO, and his federal leadership roles include, co-chair of the Federal Government’s Interagency Coordination Team for the U.S. National Nanotechnology Initiative (NNI), National Signature Initiative (NSI): Nanoelectronics for 2020 and Beyond, and Working Group Member for the NNI Grand Challenge for Future Computing.

Biography:
James Adams is Chief of the Radiation Physics Division at NIST—the National Institute of Standards and Technology. In this capacity, Dr. Adams leads a staff of approximately 70 physicists, chemists and engineers engaged in aspects of radiation physics related to the study and application of nuclear decay processes, dosimetry of ionizing radiation, fundamental neutron physics, and neutron imaging and optics. Previously, Dr. Adams was intelligence professional and equity partner with Corvus Integration, Inc., where he served as the company's Chief Scientist. Dr. Adams specialized in applied scientific research in analytical chemistry, molecular biology, and microbiology that supported the national security objectives of the United States in the areas of counter-biological warfare, Weapons of Mass Destruction counter-proliferation, and identity intelligence and management. Prior to joining Corvus, Dr. Adams was a supervisory physicist at NIST where he conducted basic and applied research with NIST’s Neutron Physics section. Dr. Adams' research activities included experimental investigations in fundamental neutron physics, investigation of space-time symmetries of the electroweak interaction, investigation of neutron interactions with matter, precision neutron metrology, measurement of the neutron lifetime, and gamma-ray spectroscopy. Dr. Adams has also served as a Senior Advisor at the U.S. Department of State, Office of Space and Advanced Technology, where he led multi-agency International Dialogues on Civilian Space Cooperation regarding the use of earth-observing satellites, and re-negotiated international Diplomatic Agreements between the U.S. Government and the Government of the Russian Federation that govern cooperation in space exploration and the peaceful uses of outer space. Dr. Adams has served as commissioned officer in the U.S. Naval Submarine Service and was a Senior Engineer in the Nuclear Safety Department of Westinghouse Electric Company.

Dr. Adams received his M.S. and Ph.D. Degrees from Penn State University where he studied nuclear reactor thermal-hydraulics and hyperfine interactions, and his A.B. Degree from Holy Cross College. Following graduate school, Dr. Adams was a Research Fellow at the University of Michigan. Dr. Adams has served as the Chairman of ISO Technical Committee 85, Subcommittee 6 on Nuclear Energy, as well as Chairman of ASTM International Subcommittee on Nuclear Metrology. Dr. Adams is an active mentor with Future Link, an organization that provides guidance and career advice to students and young adults from disadvantaged backgrounds.

Biography:
Lauren Aycock is a Payload Systems Engineer at Ball Aerospace, where she is the section lead for calibration of space-based sensors. Dr. Aycock earned her BS in Physics from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign and her PhD in Physics from Cornell University in 2017. Her doctoral work focused on creating topological phases of matter with ultracold atoms in collaboration with the Joint Quantum Institute and the National Institute of Standards and Technology. In addition to her experimental physics research, she also studied the educational environment in physics and measured the prevalance of sexual harassment in a sample of undergraduate women in physics using a nation-wide survey. She was the 2017-2018 American Physical Society's (APS)/AAAS Congressional Science Fellow in Senator Richard J. Durbin's (IL) office. From 2018-2020, she was an American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Science and Technology Policy Fellow at the Department of Energy/National Nuclear Security Administration in the Office of Cost Estimating and Program Evaluation.
Dr. Aycock serves on the APS Congressional Science Fellows Review and Selection Committee. She also served on APS Physics Policy Committee (PPC) in 2019 and APS Panel on Public Affairs (POPA) in 2020. She is a mentor in the APS IMPact program and mentors students at University of Colorado Boulder through the “Ball Sisters” program at Ball Aerospace.

Biography:
Katarina (Kat) Cicak arrived to the U.S. without family as a teenage refugee displaced by the war in her home country of Bosnia in 1992. She graduated Magna Cum Laude from University of Southern California (USC) in Los Angeles, CA with a B.S. degree in physics, and a Ph.D. in physics from Cornell University in Ithaca, NY. Her experimental Ph.D. work with charge-density-wave conductors redefined the phase diagram of the collective transport in driven periodic media with quenched disorder. She has been working at National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in Boulder, CO, since 2004. There she completed her post-doctoral studies while developing superconducting (SC) qubits and understanding their sources of decoherence for applications in quantum computing. The vacuum-gap technology and SC circuit components she pioneered are today widely implemented by major industry players developing quantum computing technology. These innovations also led to her team’s milestone experiments in quantum mechanics of cooling of a nearly macroscopic object (a 20-micrometer-wide aluminum drum) to its motional ground state, and later to the quantum entanglement of two such drums.
Dr. Cicak has been honored with numerous awards including the 2018 NIST Distinguished Associate Award – the highest NIST recognition for associates - for a device that enables quantum transduction between two realms important for quantum networking: conventional room-temperature optics and cryogenic microwave SC quantum circuits. She holds a U.S. patent for a high-quality-factor mechanical resonator protected by an engineered acoustic shield that was voted Patent-of-the Month by the NIST Technology Partnership Office in June 2020.
Currently Dr. Cicak works in the Advanced Microwave Photonics (AMP) group at NIST where she leads device fabrication efforts encompassing SC qubits, quantum-efficient amplifiers, and optomechanical devices. She has been involved in extensive collaborative efforts with industry, academia, and other national labs, both domestic and international, and has 45 published papers and over 6400 citations.

Biography:
I work on commercialization of technology and medical devices, and have been the founder of four past companies. I had distinct honor this summer to be appointed a Fellow of the APS, and I am a lifetime member. Recently I launched a new start-up, ViBo Health, working in the non-invasive in vivo metabolomics space. Previously I co-founded, served as a board member and Chief Science Officer for Adaptix Ltd., working on novel x-ray sources for medical imaging for the past 10 years. For the last three decades I had been working in beam physics, radiation production and accelerator technology in academic, national laboratory and industrial settings. I have served on various committees of the American Physical Society (APS) and was on the executive committee for the Topical Group on Medical Physics. In my role as an Entrepreneur in Residence for the Royal Society (UK), I worked to promote entrepreneurship in the UK (through NTU and Oxford University’s Mathematics Institute). I have a long track record presenting and publishing (over 150 publications in various journals and conferences) along with patenting. I have experience working and living in multiple countries including USA, Italy, UK and Portugal.

Biography:
Scooter D. Johnson received a B.A. in physics from Lewis & Clark College in 2005 and a Ph.D. in physics from the University of California, Davis in 2011 where his thesis focused on heavy fermion superconductivity using experimental low-temperature physics techniques.

He joined the US Naval Research Laboratory as an American Society for Engineering Education Postdoctoral Fellow in the Power Electronics branch where he built and developed systems to perform aerosol deposition, a room temperature thick film ceramic deposition process. He then moved to the Multifunctional Materials Branch as a staff physicist continuing his work on aerosol deposition of ferrite materials with a focus on improving ferrite integration into MMIC technology. His additional work was developing systems for studying linear and nonlinear microwave phenomena of ferromagnetic material for application to filters and absorbers. He also worked with scientists and engineers across disciplines to study atomic layer epitaxy film growth using synchrotron techniques at CHESS and BNL for applications to semiconductor technology. He also served as a subject matter expert and deliverables tester for the DARPA M3IC program.

In 2021 he joined Honeywell, Inc. where he works on developing techniques for understanding temperature, pressure, flow, and materials at cryogenic temperatures. Dr. Johnson also serves as an editor for IEEE Transactions on Magnetics and has over 35 peer-reviewed articles and proceeding, and 3 patents.

Biography:
Dave H.A. Blank, Amsterdam 1953, obtained his PhD at the University of Twente, The Netherlands, in 1991, with my thesis on ‘High-Tc thin films prepared by laser ablation: an experimental study’, under the supervision of Prof. dr. Horst Rogalla. In 1992 he became assistant professor in Rogalla's group and associate professor and program director Materials Science of Interfaces at the MESA + Institute for Nanotechnology, University of Twente. In October 2002 he became full professor of Inorganic Materials Science at the same university. On January 2007, he was appointed scientific director of MESA +. The institute has grown into a (international) leading institute in the field of nanotechnology that houses more than 550 scientists with an annual budget of more than 50 million euros. Since September 2016 he is Distinguished Professor at the University of Twente and Emeritus Professor since 2019. In 2018 he was appointed for a period of 6 years as advisor to the Executive Board of Saxion, University of Applied Sciences on research-related topics. Being the chairholder of the Inorganic Materials Science, the research group has focused on growth studies, deposition and structuring techniques, and properties of complex materials, in particular oxides. The group developed strategies to build inorganic materials, in an atomic layer-by-layer manner, by means of atomic deposition control and, thereby, exhibit new and unprecedented properties. Currently, this field is considered as a key research area for future oxide device developments. This has resulted in more than 300 papers in refereed journals, 12,000 citations, an hindex of 54. In addition, he was, up to date, supervisor of 34 PhD students.

During his directorship of MESA + he has been involved in various (inter) national initiatives. This includes membership of AWTI (advisory council of the government for science, technology, and innovation), membership of top team HTSM (High Tech Systems & Materials) as Captain of Science, various High Level Group meetings, both, within the EU and the Ministry of Economic Affairs, board member of NanoNedNL (Dutch initiative of nanotechnology), chairman of the NanoNextNL Foundation, chairman executive board of NanoNextNL, chairman workgroup Nanophysics NWO-FOM (Dutch science foundation on fundamental materials science), NWO Research and policy group on chemistry, member core team of Dutch government on key-enabling technologies, chair of the scientific council of MC2 Chalmers University (Sweden), chair of European Science Foundation program THIOX, member Investment Direct Investment Committee of East Netherlands Development Agency (Oost NL), which supports entrepreneurs in that region. Member of Editorial Board Applied Physics A (Springer), program leader Science for Peace, NATO. He is founding
father of 4 spin-of companies.

Biography:
Deniz Ertaş is Distinguished Research Associate at ExxonMobil Technology and Engineering Company, Energy Sciences Division. He has two decades of technical team lead experience in a broad range of research projects aimed at scientific breakthroughs, including geophysical methods for hydrocarbon exploration, unconventional resources, drilling and completion technologies, diagenesis of carbonate rocks, rheology of granular systems, and petroleum expulsion from source rocks. He has over 40 peer-reviewed publications, holds 24 patents and is a two-time recipient of the Thomas Alva Edison Patent Award. Deniz earned his PhD in Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics from MIT in 1995 and was a Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard University prior to joining Exxon’s Corporate Research Laboratories in 1997.

Biography:
Sufi Zafar is a Research Staff Member at IBM TJ Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY, since 2001. She is a physicist with extensive interdisciplinary research experience in materials and devices. One of her key contributions was in the high permittivity field effect transistor (FET) research, thus contributing to the successful development of advanced CMOS technology. While working on this project, she recognized the transformative potential of CMOS technology in advancing healthcare and life sciences. She initiated a project to demonstrate CMOS-compatible innovative biosensing devices with a rapid path for commercialization. This project has resulted in a technology transfer and licensing contract for commercialization with a biomedical company.

Her research efforts have resulted in 79 journal publications, 112 granted/pending patents, technology transfers, invited talks, and invitations to serve on technical committees. These research efforts have resulted in prestigious awards and honors, including the IBM Research Division Award (2005), IBM Outstanding Technical Achievement Awards (2013, 2018), IBM Master Inventor Award (2017), IBM Outstanding Innovation Award (2020), American Physical Society Fellow (2009), APS Distinguished Lectureship Award on the Applications of Physics (2022), and IEEE Fellow (2023). Additionally, she is committed to mentoring next generation of physics students and postdocs.

Additional details: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sufi-zafar-737711b/

Biography:
Steven Lambert earned a Ph.D at UC San Diego for experimental studies of compounds that show both magnetism and superconductivity. He then worked for 27 years at several different companies in the hard drive industry in Silicon Valley. In addition to product development issues, his major focus was testing and characterization of next-generation components as both an individual contributor and a manager. He then joined the staff at APS to develop and manage programs focused on industrial physics. His goal was to raise the profile of industrial physics within APS, and strong involvement with FIAP was a key part of this work. He partnered with FIAP leaders to organize two APS special topic conferences, and coauthored an APS report The Impact of Industrial Physics on the U.S. Economy. He led the effort with the APS Careers team to start IMPact, the short-term mentoring program for students considering careers in industry. After almost seven years at APS, he retired in May 2020 and hunkered down in California during Covid lockdowns. He’s enjoying retirement and wants to support FIAP and help APS to improve connections with physicists in industry and those working in applied physics in universities and national labs.

Biography:
I received my bachelor’s degree at Washington University in St. Louis and my Ph.D. from Cornell University. My Ph.D. focused on solvation and evaluation of the dielectric response of molecular fluids and solids.
Following my Ph.D., I joined the Materials Measurement Laboratory at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) first as a National Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow and then as a research chemist. At NIST, I have developed models for the aqueous electrochemical double layer and its effects on fundamental electrochemical reactions, with the end-goal to improve the design of electrolytes and electrocatalysts. I also lead a team working to develop a new spectroscopy for ion pairing and solvation.

Biography:
Thomas J. Meitzler received his B.S. and M.S. in Physics from Eastern Michigan University, completed graduate coursework at the University of Michigan, and received a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Wayne State University in Detroit.

His doctoral dissertation in Electrical Engineering at Wayne State University was on Modern Methods for Computing the Probability of Target Detection in Cluttered Environments. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) and Senior Member of the Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). He is the Ground System Survivability Senior Technical Expert.

During the time from 1988 to present, Dr. Meitzler has been a research scientist at the US Army TACOM Research and Engineering Center (TARDEC) in Survivability. For the U.S. Army, Dr. Meitzler has been involved with the validation, verification, and development of infrared, electro-optical and human visual acquisition models and atmospheric simulation. Dr. Meitzler was the principal scientist of the TARDEC Visual Perception Laboratory and the principal investigator on a CRADA with GM and Ford Motor Company to apply visual target acquisition models to vehicle conspicuity and novel sensors to automobile 360 degree safety. Dr. Meitzler has been the lead on several CRADA’s with NASA’s Kennedy Space Center and with the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. He has authored/co-authored many papers in the area of Electro Optic system simulation and visual detection, sensor validation, nondestructive testing on armor materials, spintronics and metamaterials.

Dr. Meitzler has developed and integrated technologies for embedded armor health-monitoring, armor Non Destructive testing, and armor embedded radio signal detection. His research interests include infrared sensor characterization, non-destructive testing, nano-electronics, and spintronics. Dr. Meitzler proposed a method for embedded armor health assessment that involves embedded piezoelectric transducers and nano electronics and built a laboratory around that idea.

Biography:
James Adams is Chief of the Radiation Physics Division at NIST—the National Institute of Standards and Technology. In this capacity, Dr. Adams leads a staff of approximately 70 physicists, chemists and engineers engaged in aspects of radiation physics related to the study and application of nuclear decay processes, dosimetry of ionizing radiation, fundamental neutron physics, and neutron imaging and optics. Previously, Dr. Adams was intelligence professional and equity partner with Corvus Integration, Inc., where he served as the company's Chief Scientist. Dr. Adams specialized in applied scientific research in analytical chemistry, molecular biology, and microbiology that supported the national security objectives of the United States in the areas of counter-biological warfare, Weapons of Mass Destruction counter-proliferation, and identity intelligence and management. Prior to joining Corvus, Dr. Adams was a supervisory physicist at NIST where he conducted basic and applied research with NIST’s Neutron Physics section. Dr. Adams' research activities included experimental investigations in fundamental neutron physics, investigation of space-time symmetries of the electroweak interaction, investigation of neutron interactions with matter, precision neutron metrology, measurement of the neutron lifetime, and gamma-ray spectroscopy. Dr. Adams has also served as a Senior Advisor at the U.S. Department of State, Office of Space and Advanced Technology, where he led multi-agency International Dialogues on Civilian Space Cooperation regarding the use of earth-observing satellites, and re-negotiated international Diplomatic Agreements between the U.S. Government and the Government of the Russian Federation that govern cooperation in space exploration and the peaceful uses of outer space. Dr. Adams has served as commissioned officer in the U.S. Naval Submarine Service and was a Senior Engineer in the Nuclear Safety Department of Westinghouse Electric Company.

Dr. Adams received his M.S. and Ph.D. Degrees from Penn State University where he studied nuclear reactor thermal-hydraulics and hyperfine interactions, and his A.B. Degree from Holy Cross College. Following graduate school, Dr. Adams was a Research Fellow at the University of Michigan. Dr. Adams has served as the Chairman of ISO Technical Committee 85, Subcommittee 6 on Nuclear Energy, as well as Chairman of ASTM International Subcommittee on Nuclear Metrology. Dr. Adams is an active mentor with Future Link, an organization that provides guidance and career advice to students and young adults from disadvantaged backgrounds.

Statement:
As a member of the APS Council of Representatives, I seek to represent the needs of the industrial and applied physics community within the governance of APS in all matters brought before APS leadership, including matters of science and science policy, and elements of Society membership and engagement. As the community of industrial and applied physicists constitutes the largest sector of physicists employed in the United States, as well as the largest component of the APS membership, I view this critical responsibility as especially important.

I believe that advances in applied and industrial physics have engendered important discoveries in virtually every area of science, enabled directly the evolution of new technologies, and led to the development of new and improved consumer products and services. With their profound understanding of the subtle and often counter-intuitive aspects of basic physics, coupled to their pragmatic and deep-rooted desire to create, industrial and applied physicists possess the unique combination of knowledge and skill required to move discovery from theory to practice. It is within this realm—the nexus from basic research to mature technology and finished products—that applied and industrial physicists reign.

I have worked at the intersection of physics, engineering and applied sciences for the entirety of my professional career, and have developed a deep understanding of the talents, skills, and insight that professionals who possess an educational and professional background in physics can bring to projects within an industrial setting. In this same regard, I appreciate fully the personal and professional satisfaction that industrial and applied physicists experience at the realization that their efforts have advanced our society in essential and important ways. As an APS Counselor I will bring to bear my extensive experience as an engineer and applied physicist, in concert with my wide-ranging knowledge of science and technology to advance the state of industrial and applied physics. Presently, I am a member of FIAP, serving as the FIAP representative to the APS Panel on Public Affairs (POPA) and a member of the FIAP Executive Committee. In addition, I was a member of the APS working group that created the recently released APS Strategic Plan.

Research Physicist
Materials Science and Technology Division
U.S. Naval Research Laboratory
Washington, D.C.

Biography:
Dr. Todd H. Brintlinger is a Research Physicist in the Materials Science and Technology Division at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, DC. He received his B.S. in Physics from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, where he worked on sonoluminescence, and his Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Maryland, College Park, where his research involved the growth, imaging, and electrical transport of single-walled carbon nanotube devices. Remaining in College Park, he moved to the Department of Materials Science and Engineering where his postdoctoral appointment included the development of *in situ *transmission electron microscopy for nanoscale thermometry, the study of geometrically frustrated artificial spin ice systems, and characterization of magnetoelectronic devices. His tenure at Naval Research Laboratory has continued his research with* in situ* and aberration-corrected transmission electron microscopy for phase change materials, plasmonics, electrochemical systems, and catalysts. Dr. Brintlinger also has led experiments on the predominant physics and materials mechanisms affecting the performance of an electromagnetic launch system (railgun), for which he was recognized with an NRL Award of Merit for Group Achievement. He has published 30 papers in refereed journals with an average of 30 citations per paper, served as an officer in the Edison Chapter of Sigma Xi at NRL, and has been involved in FIAP, incl. acting as an interim Member-At-Large on the Executive Committee, on a volunteer basis for the last 7+ years.

Statement:
The Forum on Industrial and Applied Physics is an especially important unit within APS for physicists that do basic research with a strong focus on subsequent commercialization. The U.S. Naval Research Laboratory is the setting for such research, and I therefore have first-hand experience with balancing the sometimes competing interests between basic science and applications. Acting as Member-At-Large, I am committed to enhancing the role of FIAP as both an advocate for the applied physicist and as a conduit for information. This conduit is two-way: to best serve its emerging young scientists, APS needs to maintain awareness about the realities and practices of industrial and applied physics, and APS can help transition the latest developments from basic physics research into the industrial and applied physics communities. Federal laboratories occupy a special place for applied physics, and have unique challenges and capabilities that naturally overlap with the mission of FIAP. I hope to cement and expand upon FIAP’s role at the March Meeting, the single most visible interaction APS members have with the Society, and to provide a link to the DoD applied physics community.

Biography:
Michael S. Gordon is a Research Staff Member at the IBM TJ Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights NY. He received his BS degree (1982) in Engineering Physics from the University of Colorado, Boulder, and his PhD degree (1989) in Experimental Nuclear Physics from SUNY Stony Brook. His research interests are focused on applications of accelerator-based ions including materials analysis and single-event upsets in semiconductors. He operates IBM’s 3MV Tandem Van de Graaff accelerator laboratory where experiments performed with monoenergetic low energy protons were the first to show that direct ionization of protons can cause SEU’s in 65 nm SOI devices. He has 42 US Patents issued, many patents pending, and has authored or coauthored more than 70 technical articles and presentations on selected topics in Nuclear Physics, electron beam lithography, alpha spectroscopy and single-event upsets. In 2007 Dr. Gordon received an IBM Outstanding Technical Achievement Award.

Biography:
Edlyn V. Levine, Ph.D. is a Senior Physicist at the MITRE Corporation and a Research Associate in the Department of Physics at Harvard University. Dr. Levine's research at MITRE focuses on the physical kinetics, electrodynamics, and thermodynamics of complex media. Her research efforts are aimed at the development of advanced platforms for sensing and communications systems in the interest of national security. She is a four-time awardee of the MITRE Innovation Program grant for her research. Dr. Levine earned her Ph.D. from Harvard University in 2016 and was an NSF Graduate Fellow and an NDSEG Graduate Fellow.

Dr. Levine is a member of the Harvard Graduate School Alumni Council, and has previously served as Coordinating Fellow for Graduate Student Life at Harvard. She held the position of president of the Harvard Graduate Science Policy Group and was the founder of the annual Harvard - DC Trip, bringing science graduate students to the capital to visit agencies involved in science policy. Dr. Levine is currently the leader of MITRE's Academic Engagement Team, focusing on building research and recruitment relationships with universities. Dr. Levine is active in scientific and technical exchange meetings including APS March Meeting, Boston APS Local Link, and a Program Committee Member for the COMSOL Multiphysics Conference. She engages in student outreach and mentorship at her alma maters, Harvard University and the University of Pittsburgh.

Statement:
I am running for member-at-large of FIAP due to my desire to contribute to our community and to translate my efforts to bridge industrial and academic physics from Boston/Cambridge to the wider APS FIAP community. I have the unique perspective of an early-career physicist who has successfully spanned both academia and industry: I hold a joint appointment between Harvard University and MITRE Corporation. I have also striven to build research collaboration between industry and academia, and am leading one such effort between MITRE and Harvard. Finally, I am deeply engaged in exposing physics students (primarily Ph.D.s) to opportunities to work as physicists in industry: this includes direct mentorship, serving on career panels at universities, serving as a mentor on the FIAP IMPact program, and introducing Ph.D. candidates to consider internship opportunities while they are in graduate school.

If I am elected as a member-at-large of FIAP, I will focus on fostering increased collaboration between physicists in academia and industry. This will involve encouraging larger participation by industrial physicists in national meetings to present research results and ideas for cross pollination with academia. I will also support highlighting of successful collaborations and best practices to serve as examples stimulating future efforts. I would like to build increased mentorship of graduate students by industrial physicists in programs like IMPact and networks such as LinkedIn. Finally, I would like to facilitate graduate students entering industry by exposing them to the range of possible research positions. This can be done by adding industrial career mentorship, panels, and job fair participants at the national meetings.

FIAP Member-at-large
Nathan D. Orloff
National Institute of Standards and Technology, Communications Technology Laboratory, Boulder, CO 80305

Biography:
Nathan (Nate) D. Orloff received the B.S. degree in physics with high honors and Ph.D. degree in physics from the University of Maryland (UMD) at College Park, College Park, MD, USA, in 2004 and 2010, respectively. His doctoral thesis concerned the study and measurement of microwave properties of Ruddelsden-Popper ferroelectrics.

In 2011, he was a Dean’s Postdoctoral Fellow with the Department of Bioengineering, Stanford University. In 2013, he joined the Materials Measurement Laboratory, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Gaithersburg, MD, USA, as a Rice University Postdoctoral Fellow. In 2014, he joined the Communications Technology Laboratory at NIST in Boulder Colorado. Dr. Orloff is currently the Project Leader of the Microwave Materials Project in the Communications Technology Laboratory at NIST in Boulder, Colorado. His research focus is three-fold: materials-by-design for communications, microwave materials metrology, and bridging the gap between optical and microwave on-wafer measurement science.

Dr. Orloff was the recipient of the UMD Dean's Award for Excellence for Teaching, the 2010 Michael J. Pelczar Award for Graduate Study, the 2014 Distinguished Associate at NIST, a Senior Member of the IEEE, and the 2019 Karl Schwartzwalder-Professional Achievement in Ceramic Engineering Award. He has published more than fifty peer-reviewed articles and proceedings. He holds a U.S. Patent on measuring material properties in roll-to-roll manufacturing.

Statement:
As an applied physicist at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, part of my job is to ask, “How can NIST help?”. As the FIAP member-at-large, that question changes to “How can Applied Physics help”. Answering this question to me starts by identifying important problems and new ideas in physics. While these problems will sometimes start through basic research in academia, they can also emerge from problems in industry or at federal research labs. Surfacing these problems and created shared solutions means increasing communications between government, academia, and industry.

To this end, my goals as the FIAP member-at-large will be to:

1. Build a nexus for industry, government, and academia to exchange ideas and share problems in applied physics, materials, and measurement.
2. Foster collaboration and shared knowledge at conferences through tutorials, expert panels, engaging industry, and program managers.
3. Inspire young scientist to challenge conventional problems with new ideas in physics and provide training on proposal writing and public speaking.

Research Scientist
US Army TACOM Research and Engineering Center (TARDEC) in Survivability
Troy, Michigan

Biography:
Thomas J. Meitzler received his B.S. and M.S. in Physics from Eastern Michigan University, completed graduate coursework at the University of Michigan, and received a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Wayne State University in Detroit.

His doctoral dissertation in Electrical Engineering at Wayne State University was on Modern Methods for Computing the Probability of Target Detection in Cluttered Environments. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) and Senior Member of the Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). He is the Ground System Survivability Senior Technical Expert.

During the time from 1988 to present, Dr. Meitzler has been a research scientist at the US Army TACOM Research and Engineering Center (TARDEC) in Survivability. For the U.S. Army, Dr. Meitzler has been involved with the validation, verification, and development of infrared, electro-optical and human visual acquisition models and atmospheric simulation. Dr. Meitzler was the principal scientist of the TARDEC Visual Perception Laboratory and the principal investigator on a CRADA with GM and Ford Motor Company to apply visual target acquisition models to vehicle conspicuity and novel sensors to automobile 360 degree safety. Dr. Meitzler has been the lead on several CRADA’s with NASA’s Kennedy Space Center and with the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. He has authored/co-authored many papers in the area of Electro Optic system simulation and visual detection, sensor validation, nondestructive testing on armor materials, spintronics and metamaterials.

Dr. Meitzler has developed and integrated technologies for embedded armor health-monitoring, armor Non Destructive testing, and armor embedded radio signal detection. His research interests include infrared sensor characterization, non-destructive testing, nano-electronics, and spintronics. Dr. Meitzler proposed a method for embedded armor health assessment that involves embedded piezoelectric transducers and nano electronics and built a laboratory around that idea.

Statement:
I have worked both in the academic and Department of Defense sectors for most of my professional career. As a treasurer/secretary of the FIAP I hope to get greater familiarity with the technical fields that my colleagues are working on and encourage the growth and membership of the FIAP technical society.

As our country strives to make our economy stronger, the role that Applied Physicists play in industry and government is crucial if we expect to expand the rate of innovation and maintain our technical leadership. Government and Industry must work together to foster and nurture workplaces and opportunities for technical creativity. If elected to the position of FIAP treasurer/secretary I will try to maintain growth of the FIAP and at the same time apply due diligence to the monitoring of our available fiscal resources.

Biography
Dr. Curt A. Richter is an experimental physicist and Group Leader of a dynamic team of research scientists in the Nanoelectronics Group of the Engineering Physics Division, Physical Measurement Laboratory (PML) at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). The Group conducts basic research to develop the measurement science needed for innovation in future nanoelectronic and thin-film devices. Richter has worked in the Division at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD since 1993.

Dr. Richter received the M.S., M.Phil., and Ph.D. degrees in Applied Physics from Yale University after receiving a B.S. in Physics from The College of William and Mary. After graduating from Yale, Dr. Richter joined NIST directly. Technically, he currently focuses on extracting critical properties of future nanoelectronic devices for use in high performance computing systems. He is an expert in the quantum properties of low-dimensional systems and has experience studying mesoscopic physics and quantum interference effects in semiconductor devices by using magnetotransport measurements. During Richter's tenure at NIST he has strongly engaged with the semiconductor industry through direct collaborations and through joint planning and oversight activities at the Semiconductor Research Council (SRC). Richter is an author of more than 160 technical articles and editor of one book.

Richter has engaged in many leadership and service roles at Conferences, Professional Societies, in public/private consortia, and within the Federal service: for example, American Institute of Physics (AIP) Prize Selection Committee, Frequent APS March Meeting Abstract Sorter, Member of the Technical Board of the Electronic Materials Conference (EMC), Former-Chairman of the International Semiconductor Device Research Symposium (ISDRS): Nanoelectronic Computing Research (nCORE) Science Advisory Board (SAB) member, and Nanoelectronics Research Initiative (NRI) Technical Program Group (TPG) member, Richter is a US technical expert in Nanotechnologies for ISO, and his federal leadership roles include, co-chair of the Federal Government’s Interagency Coordination Team for the U.S. National Nanotechnology Initiative (NNI), National Signature Initiative (NSI): Nanoelectronics for 2020 and Beyond, and Working Group Member for the NNI Grand Challenge for Future Computing.

Statement
As a member at large on the FIAP Executive Committee, I will strive to help address what I consider to be the three main issues facing the applied physics community: (1) the education of young physicists, (2) jobs and the availability of a highly-trained workforce, and (3) focused research activities and funding. I will endeavor to increase awareness in and improve the direct relationship between industry and the academic community. The FIAP must continue to strongly support the education and training of young applied physicists to ensure that the academic community continues to deliver a skilled technical workforce for our industrial partners. In addition, I will use role in the FIAP to remind the industrial community of the creativity and flexibility of a highly-educated, well-trained physicist. Combining physics and ingenuity can lead to industrial innovation that will enhance economic security and improve our quality of life.

Being an applied physicist at NIST, which is in the Department of Commerce, gives me a rare perspective on the relationship between academic researchers, federal government lab needs, and industrial applications and goals. I believe strongly in public/private organizations that combine the strengths of industrial partners with those of the federal government to identify, inspire, and fund important applied research topics. I would hope that I can use the platform of the FIAP to help enable the formation of more such public/private partnerships.

Director
Analytics, Applications and Business Development
Vibe Imaging Analytics
Woodside, California

Biography:
Matt Richter received his BA in Physics from UCSD and his PhD in Applied Physics from Stanford University. Always working in industry, he has focused on development of instrumentation for real time process control using a wide range of technologies: optical spectroscopies from the UV to the Mid-IR; Atomic Force and Scanning Tunneling microscopies; image based analysis for semiconductor fault detection and grain analysis; and multivariate analysis techniques for improved process control and fault detection in the Semiconductor and Agricultural sectors. Currently, Matt is the Director of Analytics, Applications and Business Development at Vibe Imaging Analytics.

Statement:
My name is Matt Richter and this is not my first go round with the APS. After receiving my PhD from Stanford in 1993, I spent most of my early career working in very small (three people) to small (35 or so) companies before I landed at MKS Instruments. My involvement in small companies combined with my presence on the APS Academic Council as a Member-At-Large is why I was asked to be part of the original founding crew of FIAP. Since then, I’ve founded my own company (that sadly I closed in 2013) and currently work in the agricultural sector bringing quantitative measurement to an industrial sector that still measures many things by hand! When I helped launch FIAP way back when, the main issues that we were trying to address were to increase the profile of physicists working in the private sector in the APS, as well as help market physics and physicists to industry and the private sector. Both these issues still need work. But in the past few years, new urgent issues have arisen: the fight against junk science, willful ignorance and the reduction of investment in the sciences, both basic and applied. Traditionally, physics has, for better or worse, tended to shy away from self-promotion, marketing of the field to the public at large, and political activity of any type. If elected, I will use my position to further not only the promotion of industrial and applied physics within the APS, but also put effort into increasing participation in the greater public debate from physicist so as fight the tide of junk science, increase the public understanding of the complex issues facing us all, and increase data driven decisions.

Biography:
Ichiro Takeuchi is a Professor of Materials Science and Engineering and an Affiliate Professor of Physics at the University of Maryland. He obtained his PhD in Physics from the University of Maryland in 1996. He was a Postdoctoral Fellow at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory from 1996-1999. Takeuchi has also worked for NEC Corporation in Japan as a technical research staff for 4 years. He joined the University of Maryland faculty in 1999. Takeuchi has served as a Visiting Professor at the University of Tokyo, Tokyo University of Science, Tokyo Institute of Technology, and Ruhr University, Bochum. He was a fellow of the Japan Science and Technology Agency from 2007 to 2008. Takeuchi won the Invention of the Year Award from the University of Maryland in 2010 for his invention of thermoelastic cooling, a novel alternative cooling technology. Since 2009, Takeuchi has served as the Chief Technology Officer for Maryland Energy and Sensor Technologies, LLC, a start-up dedicated to commercializing the thermoelastic cooling technology. Takeuchi is a fellow of the American Physical Society.

Biography:
Matthew Thompson is Director of Physics at TAE Technologies, Inc. a diversified company working on fusion, related power handling and particle accelerator technologies, and new medical devices for cancer treatment. He leads the 50 scientists and technical personnel of TAE’s Physics Division in their work on experimental operations, pulsed power systems, high-power neutral beams, plasma diagnostics, data acquisition, analysis, and data science. Dr. Thompson transitioned to private industry eleven years ago with his first Senior Scientist position at Tri Alpha Energy working on energy conversion and magnetic sensor technologies. Prior to becoming an industrial physicist, he worked at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory on picosecond resolution electron diffraction, and at both SLAC and Fermilab on dielectric and plasma wakefield accelerators. Outside the lab, Dr. Thompson is heavily involved in the mentorship of young scientists, leadership activities of the American Physical Society, and science advocacy. He holds a bachelor’s degree with honors in physics from Stanford University, and both a MS and PhD in physics from the University of California, Los Angeles, where his graduate work focused on experimental plasma physics.

Statement:
My single focus in running for Vice Chair is to make participation in FIAP as valuable as possible to our present and future members. The APS’s own statistics clearly show that well over 50% of the young men and women trained in physics ultimately find careers in private industry, yet FIAP members are only about 13% of the total APS membership. I believe we can do better by providing and communicating a compelling value proposition to physicists who have exited the academic and government laboratory communities. In addition to maintaining strong and useful programs at our meetings and working to recruit new and diverse members, I feel some of the best areas to work on in the future are: encouraging industrial internships, fostering a culture of mentorship, supporting mid- and late-career networking and development, and advocating at the federal level for reforms in areas such as immigration policy, intellectual property rights, and access to national user facilities.

I have a history of acting in the service of industrial physicists. At the 2014 National Issues in Industrial Physics workshop, I proposed the idea of an online mentorship matching site for industrial physics and later helped Steven Lambert, the APS Industrial Fellow, implement the concept in the form of the IMPact program (https://impact.aps.org/). In the first year of operation, IMPact attracted over 450 participants and made 90 mentoring relationship matches. This is exactly the sort of low-cost, high-payoff program I will seek to further as Vice Chair. My formal APS leadership experience includes a term as member-at-large on the Far West Section executive committee and current service on the Committee on Careers & Professional Development. Finally, my professional activities outside the APS demonstrate commitment to a vibrant and successful industrial physics community. I have personally mentored over fifteen students on professional issues, made several career-oriented speaking appearances, and maintain a blog on career skills for industrial physicists (www.prosperousphysicist.com). I hope that I can continue to serve you as a chair line officer of FIAP. Thank you for your time and attention.

Jacobs School of Engineering
UC San Diego
San Diego, California

Biography:
David A. Whelan joined the faculty of the Jacobs School of Engineering at UC San Diego in 2017. He earned his B.A. in Physics (1977) from UC San Diego and his Ph.D. (1983) and MS (1978) in physics from UCLA where he studied Tokamak Fusion Reactors, Type III Radio Solar Bursts and Nonlinear Energy Flow in electron-beam plasma systems. Whelan’s 34-year career in the aerospace industry included science and engineering research positions and eventually executive R&D management as Vice President and Chief Scientist of the Boeing Defense and Space Systems. He also served in government as the Office Director for two of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency systems offices. While at DARPA, Whelan created many legacy joint programs with the Air Force, Navy and the Army, most notably, the Discoverer II Space Radar Program, the Army’s Future Combat System and the Unmanned Combat Air Vehicle.

Dr. Whelan’s earlier career included working at the Hughes Aircraft Company as Program Manager and Chief Scientist for the B-2 Bomber Air-to-Air Radar Imaging Program, and as a Physicist for the DOE’s Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) studying X-ray lasers and Advanced Nuclear Weapons. He started his career at Northrop where he was one of the key designers of the B-2A Stealth Bomber and contributed to the YF-23 Advanced Tactical Fighter. He has numerous publications on electromagnetic radiation, laser plasma phenomena and defense systems. He holds over 50 patents on navigation systems, radar systems, antenna, and low-observable technology.

Dr. Whelan was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2007 for his development and application of Air-Air Radar Imaging. He is currently a serving member of the Defense Science Board for Office of Secretary of Defense, the NRC Division of Engineering and Physical Sciences Board, and the Air Force Studies Board of the National Research Council. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and Senior Member of the IEEE, and Fellow of the AIAA. Whelan was honored for his government service and received the Secretary of Defense Medal for Outstanding Civil Service in 2001, the Secretary of Defense Medal for Outstanding Public Service in 1998, and the Department of the Air Force Medal for Exemplary Civilian Service in 2008.

Statement:
Over my 30+ year career in science and engineering, I have had the pleasure of working for all sectors of the research and engineering profession. From my academic education in Plasma Physics at UCLA, to the DoE Nuclear Weapons Laboratory LLNL, to the commercial and defense industries at Northrop, Hughes and the Boeing Company and finally having the honor to help lead our Nation’s Defense research and innovation engine at DARPA. From this experience base I will bring a balanced perspective on how to best to address the challenges facing the FIAP community and by networking across all these sectors to find innovative and high impact solutions to meet our Nation’s Challenges by leveraging the talent and resources of the FIAP members. If elected to serve as a Member-at-large on the FIAP Executive Committee I will provide insights, energy and leadership to improve the life-long development of scientists and engineers and seek to help bridge the gap between the National Security community needs for researchers, talent and ideas and our FIAP professionals.

Biography:
Alex Demkov received his Ph.D. in theoretical physics in 1995 from Arizona State University (ASU). In 1995-1997 he was a postdoctoral researcher at ASU. In 1997-2005 he was a principal staff scientist in Motorola’s R&D organization providing theoretical support for the development of low- and high-k dielectric materials. In 2005 he joined the faculty of the Physics Department at the University of Texas at Austin.

Prof. Demkov has published over 80 research papers and has been awarded seven U.S. patents. He co-authored the 2005 edition of the Semiconductor Roadmap (ITRS). In 2002-2004 he served as Associate Editor of the Journal of Vacuum Science and Technology B. He served as guest Editor for several issues of physica status solidi (b). He contributed to several books and edited a book entitled “Materials fundamentals of gate dielectrics.” He organized numerous sessions and served on program committees of many national and international conferences. For many years he coordinated FIAP focused sessions at the March Meeting. He received the NSF CAREER award, and is a Fellow of the American Physical Society.

Statement:
I am a condensed matter theorist working on computational materials physics problems. Before joining the University of Texas I worked on materials for transistor technology in Motorola’s R&D Labs. The health and future of our enterprise critically depends on our ability to attract bright graduate students to Applied Research. In my experience, interest in applied physics among students is still high. However, exposure to it is rather limited. This is partly due to the relative isolation of industrial researchers working in smaller companies from the academic establishment. FIAP has done a good job in bringing these groups together, and we can and should do more.

If elected as a member-at-large of FIAP, I will seek to bring focus and attention to physics graduate students interested in applied science. With colleagues I have helped to introduce the FIAP travel grants for students to come to the March Meeting. We can introduce the best FIAP student paper and recognize it with a plaque and small monetary award beyond the travel grant. We also can be more active in helping students find industrial employment by providing a directory of graduating FIAP members. Paraphrasing Pericles, what we should lament is not the loss of the facilities but the loss of researchers. Researchers come first; the rest is the fruit of their labor.

Biography:
Dr. Alex Bratkovsky is a Principal Scientist in the Quantum Science Research Lab at Hewlett-Packard in Palo Alto, CA. He received his Ph.D. in 1982 at the Kurchatov Institute for Atomic Energy in Moscow in the field of Theoretical and Mathematical Physics with a thesis on the electronic structure and thermodynamics of liquid and amorphous metals. He left Moscow in 1990 and spent six years at Cambridge and Oxford Universities (UK), where he continued his research on metals and alloys, especially structural phase transitions, spin transport in metal multilayers, metal-insulator transitions, and superconductivity. He joined HP in 1996 and carried out a broadly based research program on applications of electron transport, molecular electronics, ferroelectrics, spintronics, and negative index materials. He has given five invited talks at recent international conferences, filed over 50 U.S. patents (15 granted), and published regularly in APS and AIP journals (including 5 articles in PRL over the last 5 years). In 2005, Alex became an APS fellow nominated through FIAP for his “contributions to the theory of magnetoresistance and spin injection and design of electronic and spintronic nanodevices”.

Statement:
As an elected FIAP officer, I intend to emphasize the following areas:

• Promoting networking and collaboration in developing and interdisciplinary topics between industry, national labs, and academia, with a focus on possible “next big things” where involvement of physicists is or could become crucial.
• Giving applied physics topics in industry, government, and universities a platform of attractive FIAP meeting programs for disseminating their results and attracting collaboration.
• Support and recognition of industrial and applied physicists with fellowship, prizes, and invited talks. Increase awareness of crucial importance of industrial research, including basic studies, which is under increasing pressure.
• Review activities for NSF and major physics journals, especially given a declining level of peer reviewing and onlooker position of the boards.

Condensed Matter Physics
IBM Almaden Research Center

Biography:
Barbara A. Jones is a research staff member at IBM Almaden Research Center, where she leads the theoretical and computational physics group. Her research concentrates on systems of strongly correlated electrons and on quantum magnetism. She was a recipient of the 2001 Tribute to Women in Industry (TWIN) award. She is a Fellow of the APS, and is currently the Vice Chair of the APS Division of Condensed Matter Physics.

Biography:
Dr. Carl Meinhart is a professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of California – Santa Barbara. He obtained his PhD from the University of Illinois in 1994. Since coming to UCSB in 1996, his research has focused on developing microfluidic devices and investigating their fundamental transport mechanisms. He has ten issued patents.

In addition to being a professor at UCSB, Dr. Meinhart is a co-founder of PiMEMS, Inc., a company that is commercializing titanium-based flat heat pipes for cooling portable microelectronics. He is also the founder & CEO of Numerical Design, Inc., which is a COMSOL Certified Consulting company. Dr. Meinhart is a fellow of the American Physics Society.

Biography:
Carlos J Gutierrez is the Manager of the Surface and Interface Sciences Department at Sandia National Laboratories (NM). His Department focuses on fundamental nanostructured energy materials research and nanoelectronic materials research (often with external industry and academic engagement) supporting mission-relevant science-based engineering technology innovation. At Sandia, he is engaged in various workforce diversity activities, and he has represented Sandia at DOE/NSF-sponsored Gender Equity in Materials Science and Engineering Workshops. Gutierrez received his Ph.D. and M.S. Degrees in Physics and Astronomy from the Johns Hopkins University, and a B.S. in Physics from the University of Dallas. He served as a NRC Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Naval Research Lab conducting spintronics research with Gary Prinz. Prior to joining Sandia, Gutierrez served as a Professor of Physics at Texas State University from 1992-2005, where he led the development of an innovative professional master’s degree Materials Physics program in close engagement with industry that received recognition from the AIP/APS, and support from the NSF. Gutierrez was awarded the 2001 Texas State University Presidential Award in Scholarly Excellence. Gutierrez’ independent research has been disseminated in over 40 journal publications and 80 talks, and his Sandia Department annually averages ~50 peer-reviewed research journal publications, ~40 contributed talks, and ~20 invited talks. He served as Chair of the APS Committee on Minorities, and on the Steering Committee of the Conference on Magnetism and Magnetic Materials. He served on the BOD for the Society of Chicanos and Native Americans in Science, and under his faculty leadership the newly formed Texas State University Society of Mexican American Engineers student chapter pioneered the “Science Extravaganza” science and engineering outreach concept that was later adopted by the National MAES Organization. Gutierrez has been recognized for "Professional Achievement" and as “Most Promising Scientist”, in 2009 and 1996, respectively, by the Hispanic Engineer National Achievement Awards Committee.

Statement:
If elected as Secretary/Treasurer for FIAP, I have a complementary set of intertwined Academic, National Laboratory, and Industry experiences and contacts that will add value to the committee’s activities and help further members’ interests, especially through FIAP contributions at APS meetings. My broad experience interacting with industry as a professor (working closely with the AIP/APS and NSF), and as a research manager of a prominent National Laboratory research organization, provides me with a balanced perspective that will help FIAP “enhance the APS' ability to meet the needs of the industrial and applied physics community, and help APS take advantage of the evolving opportunities in the practice and application of physics.” I will further FIAP’s activities highlighting interesting industrial physics topics to the broader APS community, and I am interested in helping strengthen this communication to physics education and science teacher’s organizations to improve information accessibility earlier in the talent pipeline. I will also work to help increase the awareness of the rewarding challenge of successfully crossing the “valley of death” between fundamental discovery and useful application, bringing increased recognition to this often unappreciated, yet crucial, activity. I will work with other members to communicate and recognize exciting non-traditional or emerging applied or industrial physics career opportunities that may escape broader society or layman attention. I have special awareness of the present and emerging contributions that physicists can make in Nanoscience and Nanoengineering that are vital for the successful development of new technologies and devices that can impact the world’s growing energy and security problems. Thus, if elected, I will work to enhance the cooperative collaboration of the international physics community towards solving difficult, complex, multi-disciplinary problems. I will also help FIAP look within our national borders, and use my experience to help further improve FIAP engagements and collaborations that target the recruitment of underrepresented groups into the applied and industrial physics pipeline.

Biography:
Dr. Cha-Mei Tang is president and CEO of Creatv MicroTech (Creatv). Dr. Tang received her B.S., M.S. and E.E. and Sc.D. from MIT. She worked at Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) and National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). At the NRL Plasma Physics Lab from 1978-1993, she served as Head of the Radiation and Accelerator Physics Section for 7 years. She did research on free-electron lasers, charged particle beams, accelerator physics, and field emission cathodes. She was a visiting scientist at the NIST Physics Lab from 1993-1996 doing research on x-ray physics and applications.

She founded Creatv in 1996 initially focusing on novel x-ray anti-scatter grids and nuclear collimators to improve image quality. She led Creatv in the development of advanced high-aspect-ratio microfabrication, providing microfabrication services for all copper THz waveguides for video radar, x-ray masks for x-ray phase contrast imaging, and nuclear collimators for gamma ray imaging. In 2000, she led the company into medical diagnostics developing instruments, assays and diagnostic kits, making products requiring combined expertise of microfabrication, instrumentation and assay methods. Recently, she developed a lithographically fabricated microfilter applied to the collection of cancer-associated cells from the blood of cancer patients with solid tumors. She has received numerous awards, including Fellow of the American Physical Society (1990), the most outstanding woman scientist in the Federal Government by Women in Science and Engineering (1992), senior member of IEEE (1995), and R&D 100 Award for Anti-scatter Grids for X-ray Imaging and Collimators for Nuclear Imaging made by LIGA (2006). She is active in APS and is a current FIAP Member-at-Large. She helped setup a new APS Prize for Industrial Applications of Physics (2007) and was on the APS Society Membership Committee (2004-2006).

Biography:
Dr. Curt A. Richter is an experimental physicist and Group Leader of a dynamic team of research scientists in the Nanoelectronics Group of the Engineering Physics Division, Physical Measurement Laboratory (PML) at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). The Group conducts basic research to develop the measurement science needed for innovation in future nanoelectronic and thin-film devices. Richter has worked in the Division at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD since 1993.

Dr. Richter received the M.S., M.Phil., and Ph.D. degrees in Applied Physics from Yale University after receiving a B.S. in Physics from The College of William and Mary. After graduating from Yale, Dr. Richter joined NIST directly. Technically, he currently focuses on extracting critical properties of future nanoelectronic devices for use in high performance computing systems. He is an expert in the quantum properties of low-dimensional systems and has experience studying mesoscopic physics and quantum interference effects in semiconductor devices by using magnetotransport measurements. During Richter's tenure at NIST he has strongly engaged with the semiconductor industry through direct collaborations and through joint planning and oversight activities at the Semiconductor Research Council (SRC). Richter is an author of more than 160 technical articles and editor of one book.

Richter has engaged in many leadership and service roles at Conferences, Professional Societies, in public/private consortia, and within the Federal service: for example, American Institute of Physics (AIP) Prize Selection Committee, Frequent APS March Meeting Abstract Sorter, Member of the Technical Board of the Electronic Materials Conference (EMC), Former-Chairman of the International Semiconductor Device Research Symposium (ISDRS): Nanoelectronic Computing Research (nCORE) Science Advisory Board (SAB) member, and Nanoelectronics Research Initiative (NRI) Technical Program Group (TPG) member, Richter is a US technical expert in Nanotechnologies for ISO, and his federal leadership roles include, co-chair of the Federal Government’s Interagency Coordination Team for the U.S. National Nanotechnology Initiative (NNI), National Signature Initiative (NSI): Nanoelectronics for 2020 and Beyond, and Working Group Member for the NNI Grand Challenge for Future Computing.

Statement:
As a member at large on the FIAP Executive Committee, I will strive to help address what I consider to be the three main issues facing the applied physics community: (1) the education of young physicists, (2) jobs and the availability of a highly-trained workforce, and (3) focused research activities and funding. I will endeavor to increase awareness in and improve the direct relationship between industry and the academic community. The FIAP must continue to strongly support the education and training of young applied physicists to ensure that the academic community continues to deliver a skilled technical workforce for our industrial partners. In addition, I will use role in the FIAP to remind the industrial community of the creativity and flexibility of a highly-educated, well-trained physicist. Combining physics and ingenuity can lead to industrial innovation that will enhance economic security and improve our quality of life.

Being an applied physicist at NIST, which is in the Department of Commerce, gives me a rare perspective on the relationship between academic researchers, federal government lab needs, and industrial applications and goals. I believe strongly in public/private organizations that combine the strengths of industrial partners with those of the federal government to identify, inspire, and fund important applied research topics. I would hope that I can use the platform of the FIAP to help enable the formation of more such public/private partnerships.

Jacobs School of Engineering
UC San Diego
San Diego, California

Biography:
David A. Whelan joined the faculty of the Jacobs School of Engineering at UC San Diego in 2017. He earned his B.A. in Physics (1977) from UC San Diego and his Ph.D. (1983) and MS (1978) in physics from UCLA where he studied Tokamak Fusion Reactors, Type III Radio Solar Bursts and Nonlinear Energy Flow in electron-beam plasma systems. Whelan’s 34-year career in the aerospace industry included science and engineering research positions and eventually executive R&D management as Vice President and Chief Scientist of the Boeing Defense and Space Systems. He also served in government as the Office Director for two of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency systems offices. While at DARPA, Whelan created many legacy joint programs with the Air Force, Navy and the Army, most notably, the Discoverer II Space Radar Program, the Army’s Future Combat System and the Unmanned Combat Air Vehicle.

Dr. Whelan’s earlier career included working at the Hughes Aircraft Company as Program Manager and Chief Scientist for the B-2 Bomber Air-to-Air Radar Imaging Program, and as a Physicist for the DOE’s Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) studying X-ray lasers and Advanced Nuclear Weapons. He started his career at Northrop where he was one of the key designers of the B-2A Stealth Bomber and contributed to the YF-23 Advanced Tactical Fighter. He has numerous publications on electromagnetic radiation, laser plasma phenomena and defense systems. He holds over 50 patents on navigation systems, radar systems, antenna, and low-observable technology.

Dr. Whelan was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2007 for his development and application of Air-Air Radar Imaging. He is currently a serving member of the Defense Science Board for Office of Secretary of Defense, the NRC Division of Engineering and Physical Sciences Board, and the Air Force Studies Board of the National Research Council. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and Senior Member of the IEEE, and Fellow of the AIAA. Whelan was honored for his government service and received the Secretary of Defense Medal for Outstanding Civil Service in 2001, the Secretary of Defense Medal for Outstanding Public Service in 1998, and the Department of the Air Force Medal for Exemplary Civilian Service in 2008.

Statement:
Over my 30+ year career in science and engineering, I have had the pleasure of working for all sectors of the research and engineering profession. From my academic education in Plasma Physics at UCLA, to the DoE Nuclear Weapons Laboratory LLNL, to the commercial and defense industries at Northrop, Hughes and the Boeing Company and finally having the honor to help lead our Nation’s Defense research and innovation engine at DARPA. From this experience base I will bring a balanced perspective on how to best to address the challenges facing the FIAP community and by networking across all these sectors to find innovative and high impact solutions to meet our Nation’s Challenges by leveraging the talent and resources of the FIAP members. If elected to serve as a Member-at-large on the FIAP Executive Committee I will provide insights, energy and leadership to improve the life-long development of scientists and engineers and seek to help bridge the gap between the National Security community needs for researchers, talent and ideas and our FIAP professionals.

National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)

Biography:
Dr. David Seiler is Chief of the Semiconductor and Dimensional Metrology Division at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), working with industry to provide innovative research and standards for dimensional, nanometer-scale, surface, and acoustic pressure measurements; semiconductors; MEMS; power electronics; nanoelectronics; smart grid; and flexible/printed electronics. He has worked for almost two decades on the International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors, recognized worldwide as a model for evaluating industry challenges and technology requirements and then formulating potential solutions. He has made substantial contributions to government-industry collaborations such as the Nanoelectronics Research Initiative and SEMATECH. He also works with industry by serving on the Governing Counsel of the Nanoelectronics Research Initiative and as the Chair of AIP’s Corporate Associates. In 1995, Dr. Seiler initiated the International Conference on Frontiers of Characterization and Metrology for Nanoelectronics, which he continues to lead today. The conference summarizes major issues for next generation semiconductor manufacturing and its talks are widely disseminated (over 3.5 M page views since 2000).

He has expertise in properties of semiconductors with focus on quantum transport, two-photon absorption spectroscopy, and magneto-optical effects. He has chaired and been editor of 11 international semiconductor conferences. Before joining NIST in 1988, Dr. Seiler served as a Solid State Physics Program Director in the NSF Materials Research Division, spent a sabbatical at the MIT Francis Bitter National Magnet Laboratory, and was Regents Professor of Physics at the University of North Texas. Dr. Seiler received a Ph. D. and M.S. in Physics from Purdue University and a B.S. in Physics from Case Western Reserve University. He is Fellow of the APS and the IEEE. He also received a Purdue Distinguished Alumnus Award for Semiconductor Physics Leadership.

Biography:
Dr. Derrick C. Mancini received his BA in history and BS in engineering physics from Cornell University, his MS in physics and MS in materials science from University of Wisconsin–Madison, and his PhD in physics from Uppsala University. He is a leading researcher in nanotechnology, nanoscience, and synchrotron radiation, experienced in scientific project and facility management. Currently, he is Adjunct Professor of Physics at the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) and Adjunct Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He established a program for x-ray lithography at MAX-Lab in Lund University before going to work in 1995 as a physicist for the Advanced Photon Source (APS) at Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) to establish programs in deep x-ray lithography (LIGA), x-ray microtomography, and high-throughput x-ray microanalysis using synchrotron radiation. He was the Project Director for the design and construction of the $72M Center for Nanoscale Materials (CNM) at ANL, completed September 2007, and thereafter was the Associate Division Director of the CNM and the leader of the Nanofabrication & Devices Group at the CNM. In 2010, he became the Deputy Associate Laboratory Director of the APS and the Director of the APS Upgrade Project at ANL. He retired from ANL in 2014, and continues research and teaching at IIT and independent consulting. Current research interests are in the areas of x-ray optics, x-ray and atom interferometry, nanoscience, nanotechnology, hydrogels, simulations using molecular dynamics and finite element analysis, advanced micro- and nanofabrication techniques, and applications of synchrotron radiation to technological and medical challenges. Co-advisor for 6 PhD student theses. Coauthor of over 200 papers and 6 patents.

Biography:
Don Siegel is an Assistant Professor in the Departments of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Physics at the University of Michigan. His research lies in the field of computational materials science, with an emphasis on the development of novel energy storage materials and structural alloys for use in transportation and power generation. Prior to joining UM he spent four years as a Technical Expert at Ford Research and Advanced Engineering, where he led the Fuel Cell and Hydrogen Storage Materials Group. He has published ~25 peer-reviewed papers, filed 5 patent applications, and presented 25 invited lectures. He is a recipient of an MRS Graduate Student Award, the TMS/JIM International Scholar Award, a National Academies/NRC Fellowship, and a Special Recognition Award from the U.S. Council for Automotive Research. Dr. Siegel has played an active role in providing input to the Department of Energy on issues related to energy storage, having served as co-Chair for the FreedomCAR Hydrogen Storage Technical Team, Reviewer for the DOE Hydrogen and Vehicle Technologies Program, and participant in ARPA-E planning workshops. Siegel received a bachelor’s degree from Case Western Reserve University in 1995 and a Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2001, both in physics. His postdoctoral training was performed at Sandia National Laboratories and the U.S. Naval Research Lab. He is a member of the APS, MRS, and TMS. In 2010 he was named a Faculty Fellow of the Michigan Memorial Phoenix Energy Institute.

Statement:
I firmly believe that technological and scientific innovation, if fostered and properly directed, have the potential to overcome the most pressing issue of our time: the development of renewable, environmentally-benign power sources. As the gateway to the industrial and applied physics communities, and as the largest APS unit, FIAP is uniquely positioned to serve both as a forum to foster this innovation, and as a conduit for the larger physics community to provide advice to policy makers on technologies relevant for our future energy needs and economic development. As a member-at-large I would work to bolster both of these functions by:

• Ensuring a robust and relevant set of FIAP-sponsored Focus Sessions at APS meetings (including an emphasis on energy applications)
• Promoting collaboration and interdisciplinary interaction between FIAP and applied units of sister societies such as the MRS, IEEE, and ACS
• Exploring the development of externally funded faculty/industry exchange programs similar to the recently established ASEE/NSF postdoctoral fellowships.

Biography:
Don Morelli received his BS and PhD degrees in physics from the University of Michigan in 1981 and 1985, respectively. He joined General Motors Research Laboratories as a Senior Research Scientist in 1985 and moved to Delphi Corporation Research Labs in 1999, where he is currently a Staff Research Scientist in the nanomaterials group. Don received two GM Campbell Awards (1992 and 1997) for fundamental scientific research, the International Thermal Conductivity Conferences Fellowship Award (1993), the Delphi Scientific Excellence Award (2004), and was elected Fellow of the American Physical Society (2005). He has published over eighty scientific papers, coauthored four book chapters, and received eleven U.S. patents. His research has spanned a variety of topics, including: semimetals, conducting polymers, high temperature superconductors, wide and narrow band gap semiconductors, thermoelectric materials, and magnetics. His current interests include new semiconductors for energy conversion and high thermal conductivity materials for thermal management.

Statement:
Science not only helps us understand the world around us, it also enriches enormously the human experience, and ultimately, it makes our everyday lives better. Scientists working in industrial and applied physics are particularly committed to the last of these endeavors. Having spent twenty years of my life working as a physicist in industry, I have seen first-hand the steady de-emphasis of fundamental science in industrial research laboratories. This evolution has created increased need for interaction and collaboration between industry and the academic and government research sectors. It is imperative in my view that FIAP continue to foster and strengthen these partnerships, both for traditional large-scale corporate research entities as well as for non-traditional smaller and start-up businesses. Finally, the future of FIAP, and indeed the APS itself, depends on young scientists: we must engage them, reach out to them, and help guide them along their career paths.

Biography:
Edlyn V. Levine, Ph.D. is a Senior Physicist at the MITRE Corporation and a Research Associate in the Department of Physics at Harvard University. Dr. Levine's research at MITRE focuses on the physical kinetics, electrodynamics, and thermodynamics of complex media. Her research efforts are aimed at the development of advanced platforms for sensing and communications systems in the interest of national security. She is a four-time awardee of the MITRE Innovation Program grant for her research. Dr. Levine earned her Ph.D. from Harvard University in 2016 and was an NSF Graduate Fellow and an NDSEG Graduate Fellow.

Dr. Levine is a member of the Harvard Graduate School Alumni Council, and has previously served as Coordinating Fellow for Graduate Student Life at Harvard. She held the position of president of the Harvard Graduate Science Policy Group and was the founder of the annual Harvard - DC Trip, bringing science graduate students to the capital to visit agencies involved in science policy. Dr. Levine is currently the leader of MITRE's Academic Engagement Team, focusing on building research and recruitment relationships with universities. Dr. Levine is active in scientific and technical exchange meetings including APS March Meeting, Boston APS Local Link, and a Program Committee Member for the COMSOL Multiphysics Conference. She engages in student outreach and mentorship at her alma maters, Harvard University and the University of Pittsburgh.

Statement:
I am running for member-at-large of FIAP due to my desire to contribute to our community and to translate my efforts to bridge industrial and academic physics from Boston/Cambridge to the wider APS FIAP community. I have the unique perspective of an early-career physicist who has successfully spanned both academia and industry: I hold a joint appointment between Harvard University and MITRE Corporation. I have also striven to build research collaboration between industry and academia, and am leading one such effort between MITRE and Harvard. Finally, I am deeply engaged in exposing physics students (primarily Ph.D.s) to opportunities to work as physicists in industry: this includes direct mentorship, serving on career panels at universities, serving as a mentor on the FIAP IMPact program, and introducing Ph.D. candidates to consider internship opportunities while they are in graduate school.

If I am elected as a member-at-large of FIAP, I will focus on fostering increased collaboration between physicists in academia and industry. This will involve encouraging larger participation by industrial physicists in national meetings to present research results and ideas for cross pollination with academia. I will also support highlighting of successful collaborations and best practices to serve as examples stimulating future efforts. I would like to build increased mentorship of graduate students by industrial physicists in programs like IMPact and networks such as LinkedIn. Finally, I would like to facilitate graduate students entering industry by exposing them to the range of possible research positions. This can be done by adding industrial career mentorship, panels, and job fair participants at the national meetings.

Biography:
Ernesto Marinero received his B.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Physics from Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, United Kingdom. His research experience has been gained through various appointments in Europe and the USA. This includes basic and applied research at the Max Planck Institute in Goettingen, Germany, Stanford University, and the IBM and Hitachi Research Centers in San Jose, California.

His technical expertise includes Materials Science, Semiconductor Physics, Growth of Nanostructured Materials and Thin Films, Laser Physics and Picosecond Phenomena, Laser-Materials Processing, Atomic and Molecular Spectroscopy, Hydrogen Quantum Chemistry, Optoelectronics, Characterization and Metrology, Thin Film Corrosion and Reliability, Magnetic Materials and Magnetic Recording Technology, Phase-Change Storage and Nanoscale Sensor Device Physics and Fabrication. His work has been widely published in the scientific literature and utilized in IBM’s and Hitachi’s technology products. His original research is the subject of numerous US, Asian and European patents.

Marinero is currently at the Hitachi San Jose Research Center and his research focuses on two key areas: 1) synthesis of new nanostructured magnetic materials and 2) research on electron transport of mesoscopic devices based on semiconductor 2DEG heterostructures with particular emphasis on ballistic transport and quantum transport. He is actively involved in collaborative research programs with academic institutions in the USA, Mexico and the UK through joint research programs in nanoscience and nanotechnology.

Statement:
One of the key objectives of FIAP is to help the Society take advantage of the evolving opportunities in the practice and application of physics. As an elected FIAP officer, I intend to invest a significant amount of time to work directly with academia and both industrial and government laboratories to pursue this objective in the context of identifying and fostering the participation of physicists in developing the technologies that will drive the economy of the 21st century. In particular, the contributions that physicists can make in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology are pivotal to the successful development of new technologies and devices. I will use my long term industrial experience and participation in multi-disciplinary projects in said endeavor to identify realistic opportunities for the successful implementation of the physical sciences in solving applied problems. A second objective of my tenure, if elected, will be to enhance the collaboration of the physics community at the international level to take advantage of global resources and expertise to solve complex, multi-disciplinary problems.

Biography:
Dr. Gregory P. Meisner is a Staff Researcher at General Motors Global Research & Development. He received his B.A., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in Physics from the University of California, San Diego, where his research focused on the superconductivity and magnetism of new ternary compounds. Following a post doc at Los Alamos National Lab, where he studied heavy fermion systems, he joined GM and has been conducting industrial research there for over 28 years. His physics research interests have included superconductivity, magnetism and high performance permanent magnets, hydrogen storage measurements and materials for fuel cell vehicles, and advanced thermoelectrics materials and devices for automotive waste heat recovery. He has published over 90 refereed publications and has 10 patents. He received two John M. Campbell Awards from General Motors Global Research & Development for “An Outstanding Contribution to Filled Skutterudites: High-Efficiency Thermoelectric Materials” (1997), and “Accurate Measurements of Hydrogen Storage” (2004), and he is a Fellow of the American Physical Society. He has served as Member of the APS Committee on Careers & Professional Development (2011- 2013), Chair of the Selection Committee for the APS Prize for Industrial Applications of Physics (2007-2011), Member of the APS Selection Committee for the George E. Pake Prize (2009-2010), Member of the Executive Committee of the APS Forum on Industrial and Applied Physics (FIAP) (2004-2007) and has served as APS Focus Session Organizer for FIAP. He is also a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Ceramic Society, Materials Research Society, Sigma Xi, American Vacuum Society, and American Chemical Society. His is currently the Principle Investigator for GM’s research projects on thermoelectric technology for automotive waste heat recovery.

Statement:
One of the most pressing needs faced by APS is to more successfully cultivate students’ interest in physics, encourage them to pursue careers in physics, and retain them as active members of APS. Many physics students, however, follow professional careers that are not in academic institutions, and consequently they tend to not remain connected to APS. This is because the perceived benefit of APS membership and attending APS meetings is too small. This is particularly true for industrial physicists, and it is also true for applied physicists working in other fields. An important role for FIAP is to further APS’s ability to meet the physics career development needs of industrial and applied physicists by, for example, providing linkage between the somewhat diverse physics communities of industrial research, national labs, and academia. The goal is to create and take advantage of opportunities designed to enhance and extend the participation of physics students in the application and practice of physics as they become professional industrial or applied physicists. One way to do this is to increase the presence of applied physics topics relevant to industry, government, and universities in the Symposia and Focused Sessions held at APS Meetings. Equally important is enhancing the way APS recognizes significant physics accomplishments by industrial and applied physicists via fellowships, awards, and prizes. My previous participation on the FIAP Executive Committee, FIAP’s Fellowship Committee and two APS Prize Selection Committees qualifies me to help FIAP and APS address these matters. As FIAP Councillor, I will serve as liaison between the FIAP Executive Committee and the APS Council, and I will work within FIAP and the APS Council to support efforts to appeal to and retain involvement of all physicists in APS.

Biography:
Ichiro Takeuchi is a Professor of Materials Science and Engineering and an Affiliate Professor of Physics at the University of Maryland. He obtained his PhD in Physics from the University of Maryland in 1996. He was a Postdoctoral Fellow at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory from 1996-1999. Takeuchi has also worked for NEC Corporation in Japan as a technical research staff for 4 years. He joined the University of Maryland faculty in 1999. Takeuchi has served as a Visiting Professor at the University of Tokyo, Tokyo University of Science, Tokyo Institute of Technology, and Ruhr University, Bochum. He was a fellow of the Japan Science and Technology Agency from 2007 to 2008. Takeuchi won the Invention of the Year Award from the University of Maryland in 2010 for his invention of thermoelastic cooling, a novel alternative cooling technology. Since 2009, Takeuchi has served as the Chief Technology Officer for Maryland Energy and Sensor Technologies, LLC, a start-up dedicated to commercializing the thermoelastic cooling technology. Takeuchi is a fellow of the American Physical Society.

Biography:
Hannon received his Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Pennsylvania in 1994, working in the research group of Ward Plummer. In his thesis work he measured the structure and phonon spectra of Be surfaces using electron scattering. Following postdoctoral appointments at the Forschungszentrum Juelich and Sandia National Labs, he moved to Carnegie Mellon University as an assistant professor of physics. Major research projects included determining atomic-scale growth mechanisms using STM and low-energy electron microscopy (LEEM). In 2000 Hannon joined IBM's T.J. Watson Research Center, continuing research on surfaces using LEEM. Areas of interest include surface stress, spontaneous self assembly, dynamics of strained systems, alloy formation, and graphene. He now manages the Molecular Devices and Assemblies group, focused on the integration of carbon nanotube electronics with conventional CMOS. He is the author of over 50 refereed publications.

Statement:
Physics is at the heart of nanotechnology. Exciting advances continue to be made that allow us to make, study, and understand materials at ever smaller length scales. These advances come at a time when many industries are faced with unprecedented technological challenges. The future of physics is bright. Industry, our colleagues, funding agencies, and most importantly, students, need to hear that message. This is the key to attracting the best students, increasing funding, and sustaining scientific progress.

I have held positions in academia, at national labs, and in industry. Each of these groups has different goals, and I have experienced the apparent disconnect between these groups first hand. But each relies on a continued commitment to fundamental materials physics. FIAP can be an important tool for fostering closer coordination between these three important APS constituencies.

I currently serve on the Executive Committee of the New York State Section of the APS. During my tenure we began an aggressive program to increase the number of undergraduate physics students attending NYSS symposia. The idea was to inspire undergraduates by direct contact with high-level physics research. Through financial grants to students, we dramatically increased undergraduate attendance at our biannual meetings. It is exciting to see undergraduates interacting with some of the leading researchers in the northeast. It’s a small example of strengthening the connection between APS constituencies. It’s my hope that similar efforts can be made on a larger scale through the FIAP.

Biography:
Jason Cleveland is currently CEO of Asylum Research, an atomic force microscope company he co-founded 12 years ago. In 1990, he obtained a B.A. in Math and Physics from the University of Minnesota where he was a Goldwater scholar. At Minnesota, he worked in the lab of Dan Dahlberg in low temperature physics and magnetism. Cleveland received his Ph.D. in Experimental Physics from UCSB in 1995. There, in the lab of Paul Hansma, he studied interaction forces on the atomic scale as well as building a new generation of AFMs enabling the use of ultra-small cantilevers. From 1996 through 1999 he was a research scientist at Digital Instruments. His research there included understanding the physics of AFM phase imaging. He co-founded Asylum Research in 1999 and has served as Chairman and CEO. He is an author on more than 40 scientific publications and a co-inventor on over 20 patents.

Statement:
As a physicist who has left the academic fold, one of the most striking things to me about graduate physics education is that it is largely aimed at the subset of Ph.D.’s who remain in academia while the majority of graduates, in fact, leave academia. Since the education occurs in academia, graduate students are naturally exposed to academic career paths, but often not to the alternatives. One of my major goals as a member-at-large of the FIAP committee would be to broaden exposure to alternative physics career paths including industrial research, “non-traditional” technical roles (e.g. patent attorneys), and especially, entrepreneurship. The best way to do this is to simply put successful people who have chosen these other paths in front of students. We can do this through FIAP session choices and also working with physics educators to broaden their curricula to include forums where students get a chance to meet these “alternative” physicists. Given most of these physicists don’t publish into a common literature like academic physicists do, finding them can also be difficult, so an additional goal of mine would be to improve tools to both locate members of this community, and to keep them better connected.

Biography:
Dr. Jeffrey. H. Hunt is a principal scientist and Technical Fellow at The Boeing Company. He received a B.S in physics from MIT and M.A and Ph.D. in physics from UC Berkeley. At MIT, Dr. Hunt developed technology for spectroscopic measurement of atomic isomer shift. At UC Berkeley, he pioneered the use of Surface Sum-Frequency Generation, creating a means to do direct surface sensitive IR spectroscopy. Dr. Hunt was at Rockwell Corp. from 1988 until 1996, working on advanced optical projects, including high power laser systems, optical surface diagnostics, and photon-counting spatial light modulators.

Hunt joined Boeing in 1996, continuing work on next generation optical system, such as autonomous manufacturing, quantum key distribution, and nonlinear optical spectral and imaging diagnostics. He is actively performing basic research on electronic behavior of thermo-electric nanowires. His career has included physics-based projects in condensed matter physics, quantum information sciences, surface science, and nonlinear optics and work on diverse applications, including both in defense sciences and commercial air and space technologies. He has published over 30 papers, 3 books and 2 encyclopedia articles on condensed matter sciences. He holds 61 US patents on sources, sensors, diagnostics, quantum information, and network centric operations. He is a member of the Optical Society of America, the SPIE, and the American Physical Society (Fellow 2008). He was elected to the Boeing Technical Fellowship in 2000.

Dr. Hunt has a strong record of volunteering within the public school system and is an educational counselor for MIT admissions. He received the Boeing exceptional volunteer service award (2010) for work within the Los Angeles Unified School District. He has been honored by the LA City Council for his educational work. In 2011, he received the Jaime Escalante Legacy award for his long term involvement with students from socio-economically disadvantaged backgrounds.

Program Manager
Defense Sciences Office of DARPA
Arlington, Virginia

Biography:
Dr. Jim Gimlett joined the Defense Sciences Office of DARPA as a Program Manager in 2013. His current portfolio includes novel metrology based on quantum optics, nanoscale electro-optical-mechanical systems, and atomic and nuclear physics; next generation machine learning architectures to better model complex dynamic systems; and out-of-the-box alternative methods for addressing fast-evolving viral and other diseases.

Prior to joining DARPA, Jim served as CTO of Alternative Power Generation of Canada, and CTO and cofounder of Network Elements, Inc., a startup company that pioneered the development of high speed optical plug-and-play network modules for next generation switching platforms. He also served as member of the technical staff and manager of the Advanced Lightwave Research group at Bellcore, where he initiated leading edge high speed optoelectronic device and multiwavelength and coherent optical systems research programs. As manager of the Advanced Systems Research group at Tektronix Labs, he was principal investigator for the National Science Foundation and the Department of Defense on several advanced network device development programs. Jim has led and collaborated on nuclear and particle physics programs and experiments at Caltech, Los Alamos National Labs, and the Swiss Institute for Nuclear Physics. He has served as a Fellow of the Optical Society of America, and has 8 patents and over 65 peer-reviewed papers, invited talks and conference presentations in nuclear physics, fiber optic transmission systems and high speed networking. He received a BS degree in Applied Physics and a PhD in Physics from Caltech.

Statement:
I’ve experienced R&D in a variety of roles, from basic researcher, to applied and industrial researcher and manager, to cofounder and CTO of a high tech startup. I’ve served as both a performer for government agencies, and as a funder of applied research and technology development in my current role as a DARPA program manager, and have experienced the challenges of transforming ideas into reality from many sides. At DARPA we endeavor to bring together multidisciplinary groups that bridge across a variety of fields (I personally have programs that span numerous physics, biology, mathematics and information science disciplines). We cut across academic, industry and government lab boundaries to develop novel technologies to solve specific problems impacting national security. I’m passionate about my role that includes helping researchers find commercial transition paths so that their ideas and technologies can find life outside of the lab. This includes generating new SBIR (Small Business Innovation Research) topics, and connecting performers with other agencies, stakeholders, venture capital and alternative funding entities, applications partners and potential customers.

Biography:
John A. Rodriguez was born in San Antonio, TX. He received the Ph.D. in electrical and computer engineering from Rice University in Houston, TX. Dr. Rodriguez is currently a Distinguished Member of the Technical Staff in Analog Technology Development at Texas Instruments in Dallas, where he researches the reliability physics of ferroelectric memory devices in advanced process technology. He is a member of the American Physics Society, American Ceramic Society and the IEEE. He has published or presented more than 40 papers in conferences and journals and has been awarded 21 US patents. Dr. Rodriguez is a recipient of the 2002 IEEE Reliability Physics Symposium Outstanding Paper Award, the 2005 Electrical Over-Stress/Electrostatic Discharge Symposium Best Presentation Award and the 2012 Semiconductor Research Corporation Mahboob Khan Outstanding Industry Liaison Award for his mentorship of a research program at the University of Florida. He received the prestigious Texas Instruments “Innovators in Action” Award in 2013 for his contributions to novel ultra-low-power integrated circuits.

Biography:
For 36 years, Dr. John Rumble has been a leader in scientific and technical (S&T) data, including physics, materials, and engineering. For 24 years, he worked for the National Institute of Standards and Technology, serving as Director of the NIST Standard Reference Data Program and Chief of the NIST Measurement Services Division. From 2004 to 2011, Dr. Rumble was Executive VP of Information International Associates, a company in Oak Ridge TN. He is now President of R&R Data Services, in Gaithersburg MD.

Dr. Rumble was among the first to build online, PC, and web-based S&T databases, in physics, materials science, and other fields. In 1982, he began efforts to build and deliver large-scale materials databases, working with industry, professional societies, and government agencies. Rumble also started a number of physics data projects, including the first e-Book of physics data. In 2008, he organized the first U.S. workshop on nanomaterials data.

Dr. Rumble has considerable industrial physics and materials science experience. In 1979-1980, he worked at the IAEA in Vienna Austria. During his time at NIST, he worked with many industry organizations and professional societies to develop industry-related data programs in materials science and engineering, as well as standards for industrial data.

Dr. Rumble has written three books and many articles on S&T data. He has published papers on atomic and molecular physics. Rumble received a B.A. in Chemistry from Cornell University, a M.A. in Chemistry from the City University of New York, and a Ph.D. in Chemical Physics from Indiana University. He spent four years at the JILA in Boulder CO and was a postdoctoral fellow at the Quantum Chemistry Institute in Uppsala, Sweden.

Dr. Rumble has been named Fellow of several professional societies including the IUPAC, AAAS, ASTM International, and ASM International, as well as a Foreign Member of the Russian Academy of Metrology. In 1998-2002, Rumble was President of CODATA, the ICSU Committee on Data for Science and Technology, which oversees the approval of the CODATA Set of Fundamental Constants. He was awarded the CODATA 2006 Prize for achievements in S&T data.

Statement:
The majority of my professional career has been working in areas directly related to the needs of industry, especially physics, materials science, and engineering. Today, the importance of industrial and applied physics cannot be overemphasized. With the development of nanoscale technologies and materials, the approach of the limits of Moore’s law, and the growing realization that physics research is critical to areas as diverse as climate change, biomedical engineering, energy, and advanced manufacturing, APS and FIAP must do everything possible to support physics, especially in industry. I have successfully worked with a broad set of industry groups, professional societies, and research institutions to build multi-disciplinary programs involving many areas of applied physics, including materials science, scientific and technical data for industry, and fundamental A&M data for advanced energy technologies. I will bring my experience as an industry executive, my knowledge of science in general and physics in particular, and my skills as a facilitator to FIAP to enhance and grow the use of physics as a vital part of our industrial future.

Biography:
Dr. Joseph Mantese is a Research Fellow at United Technologies Corporation’s Research Center, specializing in electronic materials, components, sensors, and packaging. He received both his MS and PhD in solid state physics from Cornell University and his BS in physics from the University of Missouri at St. Louis.

Prior to joining UTRC, Dr. Mantese was Department Head of Delphi Research Laboratories (Materials, Components, and Packaging), the central research laboratory responsible for developing advanced technologies for automotive systems, including systems for: safety, entertainment, HVAC, connection, and emission. Before joining Delphi in 1999, Dr. Mantese was a member of General Motors Research and Development Laboratories where he was Section Leader of sensor development. Dr. Mantese is the recipient of an R&D 100 Award (1997) for the development of industrial scale plasma ion implantation, winner of UTRC’s 2010 Outstanding Achievement Award for his work related to multi-species chemical sensing, is twice winner of General Motors’ Campbell Award (1990 and 1995) for scientific breakthroughs in materials science, an inductee and subsequent honoree of Delphi Corporation’s Hall of Fame (2000, 2004) for scientific research and creation of corporate intellectual property, and the winner of Wayne State University’s Socius Collegii Award (2004) for collaborative research with the School of Engineering.

In 2013 he was made a member of the Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering (CASE). Dr. Mantese is the holder of 37 patents pertaining to electronic materials, sensors, MEMS, and components. He is also the co-author of 97 peer reviewed papers, including a book on the fundamentals of graded ferroic materials, and three book chapters related to electronic materials and devices.

Biography:
Joseph Heremans received his B.S. in Electrical Engineering (1975) and his Ph. D. in Applied Physics (1978) from the Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium. With a fellowship of the Belgian National Science Foundation, he was a visiting scientist at the Ørsted Institute (University of Copenhagen), the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the Institute for Solid State Physics (University of Tokyo). He joined General Motors Research Laboratories in 1984, became group leader of the Electro-optical Physics Group (1985), and manager of the Semiconductor Physics Section (1987). He moved to Delphi Corporation’s Research Labs in 1999, where he is a Research Fellow and manages the nanomaterials group. Joseph co-edited two books, and authored 162 peer-reviewed articles and 31 US patents. He is a fellow of the APS (1987), received GM’s Kettering and Campbell Awards, and Delphi’s Scientific Excellence Award. His current research interests are the transport properties of nan omaterials and energy conversion.

Statement:
In the APS, the Forum on Industrial and Applied Physics provides the critical interface between universities, national laboratories and industrial laboratories, which I will strive to nurture and strengthen. FIAP has been quite successful in recognizing the contributions of physicists in non-academic positions, for instance through the fellowship program. Another strength is the organization of focus sessions at the March Meeting, which inform the broader community of physicists about the existence of problems with technological significance. Maintaining the high quality of both programs is my first goal. I see new opportunities in trying to increase the participation of physicists employed in industry, particularly those outside the established industrial labs. Finally, I want to promote relationships between academia and industrial/national laboratories at the graduate student level, in order to increase the awareness of younger members of the career opportunities that are open to them.

Biography:
Larry Schwartz holds a B.S. from the City College of New York and a Ph. D. from Harvard University. In 1972 he joined the Physics Department at Brandeis University where his research focused on quasi-particle states in disordered systems. In 1982 Larry joined Schlumberger-Doll Research where his research deals with the transport, magnetic resonance and vibrational properties of porous media. He holds the rank of Scientific Advisor and, since 1999, has been in charge of Schlumberger’s worldwide University Relations Program. In 1994 Larry spent a sabbatical year at the National Institute for Standards and Technology and the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. He served as a member of the Executive Committee of the APS Panel on Public Affairs from 1999 to 2001 and on Industrial Advisory Committees at the University of Houston, Rice, Heriot-Watt and Louisiana State Universities.

Statement:
I believe that my combined experience in academic and industrial research qualifies me to serve as a Member-at-Large on the FIAP Executive Committee. In addition, my work with POPA has given me an understanding of both the APS organization and the changing professional landscape faced by physicists working in academic and industrial settings.

For the last seven years I have worked to improve relations between Schlumberger and key universities around the world. This experience will be valuable as FIAP tries to develop and support university-industry interactions. This is especially true in research connected to the Energy Industry where I have worked with many universities as they set up programs to address the energy challenges facing our society. I have represented Schlumberger at a number of meetings on global energy and environmental issues and have participated in the Stanford Global Climate and Energy Project.

Biography:
Mark Bernius is a Fellow and Senior Scientist for The Dow Chemical Company. He is a member of New Product Development in the Materials Science and Engineering Department, and has worked in areas of electronics, optics and optical systems, renewable energy systems, advanced textile development, and SMART material and composites systems which have resulted in several product concepts and prototypes including two business launches. He was instrumental in developing Dow’s polymeric semiconductor materials capability with the development of light-emitting diodes and transistors (OLED-related) which became Dow Lumation Displays. He was the technical initiator of Dow’s Solar Solution business, which is now producing product prototypes based on proprietary processing of thin-film photovoltaic (PV) cells. He is now exploring new opportunity areas for the company in the area of advance composite systems. Mark Bernius received his Ph.D. from Cornell University, and has held positions at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the California Institute of Technology prior to joining The Dow Chemical Company. He holds an adjunct position with the Physics Department at the Saginaw Valley State University where he brings the perspective of real-world on-the-job physics to the classroom. Mark has held associate/ advisor editor positions with the American Institute of Physics (Review of Scientific Instruments) and Wiley InterScience Journals (Advanced Materials), is a life member of the APS and a Senior Member of IEEE. He is the author of 45 technical publications and 41 patent and patent applications. He has received over 1400 citations for his work in the fields of physics as it relates to interdisciplinary fields.

Statement:
I am seeking your vote to serve the FIAP membership as the Vice Chair for 2011-2012. I believe FIAP is a vital organization representing the applied physicist in industry and government sectors to the physics community as a whole. I have recently served as the AIP Chair of the Corporate Associates Advisory Committee for over ten years, where we have sought to integrate the needs of industry with academia in maintaining a robust pipeline of students to employees as well as modernize the available R&D opportunities as it impacts the competitive capabilities of our industrial base. I will continue to seek ways to improve programs related to member and Society development to continue to foster a strong representation in the APS, and to encourage a wider scope in defining employment opportunities for members through industrial networking opportunities.

Biography:
Mark Lee is a Principal Member of Technical Staff in the Physical & Chemical Sciences Center at Sandia National Laboratories. He earned his A.B. in Physics from Harvard and his Ph.D. in Applied Physics from Stanford. Prior to joining Sandia, Mark was a Member of Technical Staff at Bell Labs and before that was Associate Professor of Physics at the University of Virginia. At U.Va. he won a Young Investigator CAREER Award from the NSF and a Cottrell Scholars Award from the Research Corporation. Mark’s current research spans a range from fundamental experiments probing electrodynamic response in new materials, superconductors, and semiconductors to exploiting often extraordinary physical properties found in some materials for innovative new sensing and communications devices. Mark is an author on over 60 scientific publications, holds five patents, has served on several funding agency panels, and is a member of the APS Committee on Meetings.

Statement:
I bring to FIAP the somewhat unusual experience of having been a full-time principal investigator in all three major arms of physics research in the United States: university, industrial lab, and national lab. Because of this, I have an insider’ s understanding of both shared and differential concerns of physics researchers at each kind of institution. As FIAP Vice Chair, I will bring this experience to promote a stronger coupling between pure and applied physics. Within APS, FIAP is obviously the best forum to foster a fertile mix among pure and applied physicists and to keep physicists in industry connected, active, and recognized in the APS. I hope to further such interactions by organizing more joint FIAP focus sessions and symposia, especially with DMP and DCMP. In addition to technical topics, I would promote greater discussion on issues such as technology transfer from lab to market, fundamental physics discoveries arising from applied research, the funding and resource balance between basic and applied research, and physics-related career paths in industry and national labs.

Biography:
Martin E. PoitzschMartin Poitzsch holds an A.B. from Washington University in St. Louis and a Ph.D. from Harvard University. He also spent three semesters at the Technische Universität Berlin as a Rotary Scholar and an extended internship with Siemens AG. After Harvard, he was an NRC Post Doc at NIST in Boulder, CO, where he constructed the first liquid helium temperature RF ion trap for stored-ion frequency metrology. In 1994, he joined Schlumberger’s Logging While Drilling engineering department in Houston, where he worked as an R & D physicist on low-frequency electromagnetic imaging, navigation, and nuclear measurements. From 1996 to 2001, he led the NMR While Drilling product development team and then the Magnetic Resonance (both product engineering and manufacturing) department in Houston. From 2002 to 2004, he was the Wireline R & D Portfolio Manager based in Paris and Houston, overseeing over $100M in physics-related “downhole” measurement technology projects in eight centers around the world for Schlumberger. Since 2004, he has been the Research Director for Sensor Physics at SDR in Ridgefield, CT, and now Cambridge, MA. Martin’s department consists of about 50 researchers working on a wide range of experimental physics-based measurement technologies being evaluated for possible exploitation as geophysical/petrophysical reservoir probes. His work also involves extensive collaboration with Schlumberger engineering centers and with external partners, mainly at universities, where his department is supporting almost two dozen exploratory research collaborations.

Statement:
I believe that my experience gives me a very comprehensive understanding of the whole continuum from fundamental research to long-term applied research to very near-term engineering applications. I have also been involved in a large amount of technical recruiting for the past 14 years, having been responsible for filling engineering, technician, scientist, and post-doctoral researcher positions, as well as technical managerial positions. I think that I am therefore very knowledgeable about workforce issues from the points of view of both the industrial and academic employers and the young or mid-career scientists.

I am also very willing and able to contribute on issues relating to university-industrial relations and collaboration and on the technical challenges of energy supply and global climate change.

Biography:
Dr. Matt Kim is the founder and president of QuantTera (2005 to present, Scottsdale, AZ), a microelectronics R&D company specializing in nano-engineered devices for telecommunications (www.quanttera.com). He is responsible for development of novel processes and structures in photonic and electronic devices. Dr. Kim is currently the Chairman of the Arizona Nanotechnology Cluster, a 501c3 non-profit volunteer corporation for nanotechnology education of the general public (www.aznano.org). This group provides educational resources for students and general public. He led 2006, 2007 and 2008 Arizona Nanotechnology symposiums and 2009 CEO Solar Forum. He also initiated the 2008, 2009, and 2010 Nanotechnology essay scholarship contest for Arizona schools. In 2006 Dr. Kim was recognized at the Governor’s Celebration of Innovation and awarded the Chairman’s Award for his contributions to technology in Arizona.

In 2000, Dr. Kim co-founded MicroLink Devices, Inc., a manufacturer of high performance transistors for cellular communications. From 1994-2000, Dr. Kim was Principal Staff Scientist at Motorola’s corporate research laboratory, prototyping high speed transistors, microwave devices and optical devices. From 1990-1994, Dr. Kim was a senior scientist at Bandgap Technology Corporation where he was in charge of transistors and lasers for telecommunication applications. Dr. Kim is presently a Member-at-Large on the FIAP Executive Committee. Dr. Kim is also on the executive program committee for the APS 4 Corners Section for bringing together academic, industry, and government laboratories at yearly meetings in Colorado (2013), Utah (2014), and Arizona (2015). At these meetings he runs the industrial panelist forum that brings industrial leaders from the 4 Corners region with undergraduate and graduate physics students. He received his Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a B.S. in engineering physics from Cornell University.

Director
Analytics, Applications and Business Development
Vibe Imaging Analytics
Woodside, California

Biography:
Matt Richter received his BA in Physics from UCSD and his PhD in Applied Physics from Stanford University. Always working in industry, he has focused on development of instrumentation for real time process control using a wide range of technologies: optical spectroscopies from the UV to the Mid-IR; Atomic Force and Scanning Tunneling microscopies; image based analysis for semiconductor fault detection and grain analysis; and multivariate analysis techniques for improved process control and fault detection in the Semiconductor and Agricultural sectors. Currently, Matt is the Director of Analytics, Applications and Business Development at Vibe Imaging Analytics.

Statement:
My name is Matt Richter and this is not my first go round with the APS. After receiving my PhD from Stanford in 1993, I spent most of my early career working in very small (three people) to small (35 or so) companies before I landed at MKS Instruments. My involvement in small companies combined with my presence on the APS Academic Council as a Member-At-Large is why I was asked to be part of the original founding crew of FIAP. Since then, I’ve founded my own company (that sadly I closed in 2013) and currently work in the agricultural sector bringing quantitative measurement to an industrial sector that still measures many things by hand! When I helped launch FIAP way back when, the main issues that we were trying to address were to increase the profile of physicists working in the private sector in the APS, as well as help market physics and physicists to industry and the private sector. Both these issues still need work. But in the past few years, new urgent issues have arisen: the fight against junk science, willful ignorance and the reduction of investment in the sciences, both basic and applied. Traditionally, physics has, for better or worse, tended to shy away from self-promotion, marketing of the field to the public at large, and political activity of any type. If elected, I will use my position to further not only the promotion of industrial and applied physics within the APS, but also put effort into increasing participation in the greater public debate from physicist so as fight the tide of junk science, increase the public understanding of the complex issues facing us all, and increase data driven decisions.

Biography:
Matthew Thompson is Director of Physics at TAE Technologies, Inc. a diversified company working on fusion, related power handling and particle accelerator technologies, and new medical devices for cancer treatment. He leads the 50 scientists and technical personnel of TAE’s Physics Division in their work on experimental operations, pulsed power systems, high-power neutral beams, plasma diagnostics, data acquisition, analysis, and data science. Dr. Thompson transitioned to private industry eleven years ago with his first Senior Scientist position at Tri Alpha Energy working on energy conversion and magnetic sensor technologies. Prior to becoming an industrial physicist, he worked at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory on picosecond resolution electron diffraction, and at both SLAC and Fermilab on dielectric and plasma wakefield accelerators. Outside the lab, Dr. Thompson is heavily involved in the mentorship of young scientists, leadership activities of the American Physical Society, and science advocacy. He holds a bachelor’s degree with honors in physics from Stanford University, and both a MS and PhD in physics from the University of California, Los Angeles, where his graduate work focused on experimental plasma physics.

Statement:
My single focus in running for Vice Chair is to make participation in FIAP as valuable as possible to our present and future members. The APS’s own statistics clearly show that well over 50% of the young men and women trained in physics ultimately find careers in private industry, yet FIAP members are only about 13% of the total APS membership. I believe we can do better by providing and communicating a compelling value proposition to physicists who have exited the academic and government laboratory communities. In addition to maintaining strong and useful programs at our meetings and working to recruit new and diverse members, I feel some of the best areas to work on in the future are: encouraging industrial internships, fostering a culture of mentorship, supporting mid- and late-career networking and development, and advocating at the federal level for reforms in areas such as immigration policy, intellectual property rights, and access to national user facilities.

I have a history of acting in the service of industrial physicists. At the 2014 National Issues in Industrial Physics workshop, I proposed the idea of an online mentorship matching site for industrial physics and later helped Steven Lambert, the APS Industrial Fellow, implement the concept in the form of the IMPact program (https://impact.aps.org/). In the first year of operation, IMPact attracted over 450 participants and made 90 mentoring relationship matches. This is exactly the sort of low-cost, high-payoff program I will seek to further as Vice Chair. My formal APS leadership experience includes a term as member-at-large on the Far West Section executive committee and current service on the Committee on Careers & Professional Development. Finally, my professional activities outside the APS demonstrate commitment to a vibrant and successful industrial physics community. I have personally mentored over fifteen students on professional issues, made several career-oriented speaking appearances, and maintain a blog on career skills for industrial physicists (www.prosperousphysicist.com). I hope that I can continue to serve you as a chair line officer of FIAP. Thank you for your time and attention.

Biography:
Mohsen Yeganeh received a B.S. in Physics with Summa Cum Laude, from the State University of New York at Stony Brook and a Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Pennsylvania where he developed nonlinear optical (NLO) spectroscopy of solid/solid interfaces and received the Outstanding Thesis Award in 1992. He after receiving his degree joined Exxon Research and Engineering Co. as a postdoctoral fellow. He has been a Member of the Technical Staff at ExxonMobil Corporate Strategic Laboratories in NJ since 1995 where he leads the nonlinear optical spectroscopy laboratory for the characterization of interfaces that are of practical interest to ExxonMobil. Dr. Yeganeh is the author of over 80 external and internal publications and holds six US patents. He has served in various seminar organizing and award committees. He is the treasurer and a member of the Board of Directors of the Materials Science Club of NY since 1995.

Statement:
Advances in physics within the industrial community must be recognized and acknowledged. FIAP has initiated this effort and has made tremendous progress toward this goal. The FIAP’s effort must be continued, strengthened and widened to include the effort of industrial physicists who are involved in non-traditional physics fields. I am committed to encourage industrial physicists working in chemical companies to support FIAP’s efforts. To facilitate this I will seek a closer collaboration between FIAP and both the Chemical and Polymer Physics Divisions. In addition, I would actively encourage broader interactions between industries and universities, as well as facilitate interactions between physics students and industries for better career planning. My experience as treasurer and a member of the Board of Directors of the Materials Science Club of NY will serve me well in fulfilling the secretary/treasurer position at FIAP.

Biography:
Philip J. Wyatt is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Wyatt Technology Corporation. He is the American Physical Society’s 2009 recipient of the Prize for Industrial Applications of Physics with the citation: "For pioneering developments in the physics of the inverse scattering problem: new applications of laser light scattering and the successful sustained commercialization of new related analytical methods and instrumentation." He is the Chair of the American Physical Society's largest unit, the Forum on Industrial and Applied Physics.

Wyatt received his undergraduate education in liberal arts, physics and mathematics at the University of Chicago, and Christ's College, Cambridge. His graduate education was completed at the University of Illinois (M.S.) and the Florida State University (Ph.D.). The author of more than fifty articles, Dr. Wyatt has co-authored or contributed to eleven books, and was nominated by the NAS as one of fifteen finalists for this country's first Scientist-Astronaut Selection Program. He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, The American Physical Society, and the Optical Society of America, and has had over thirty foreign and domestic patents issued relating to laser light scattering and other technologies. In 2003, he was named Graduate of Distinction by the College of Arts and Sciences at FSU. He is a Registered Agent before the U. S. Patent and Trademark Office.

Statement:
I have been an industrial physicist for most of my professional career. I would hope that my membership on the FIAP Executive Committee as a Member-at-large would provide me a vehicle to encourage both the Society and future generations of newly graduating physicists to search out the many new types of employment opportunities that need their skills in industry. The Country’s future as a great nation depends now more critically than at any former time in its history on the abilities of its citizens to innovate, develop new technologies, and create new industries. As always, physicists will play a key role in achieving these objectives, but far more are needed to transform such objectives to reality.

Biography:
Rachel S. Goldman is Associate Professor of Materials Science & Engineering, Applied Physics, and Electrical Engineering & Computer Science at the University of Michigan (UM). During 2005-2006, she was the Augustus Anson Whitney Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute and Visiting Scientist in the Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Harvard University. Goldman received her B.S. in Physics (high honors with distinction) from UM. During the summers following her sophomore and senior years, Goldman interned at Brookhaven National Laboratory in Upton, NY and Thomson-CSF in Orsay, France. She then received her M.S. in Applied Physics from Cornell University and her PhD in Materials Science from the University of California, San Diego. Following her PhD, Goldman was a postdoctoral fellow in Physics at Carnegie Mellon University. In 1997, she joined UM as the Dow Corning Assistant Professor. Goldman is the author of more than 60 publications, including 3 invited reviews and chapters, and she has delivered more than 115 invited talks. Goldman has received an NSF CAREER Award, the AVS Peter Mark Memorial Award, the UM Ted Kennedy Family Team Award, and a Radcliffe Faculty Fellowship. She is an active member of APS, AVS, MRS, TMS, and IEEE. She has served as APS Focus Session Organizer for DCMP, FIAP, and DMP; Chair of the EMPD Division of AVS; Associate Editor of Journal of Vacuum Science and Technology A and Journal of Electronic Materials; and Volume organizer for MRS Bulletin. Goldman is currently serving 3-year terms on the AVS Board of Directors and the TMS/IEEE Electronic Materials Committee.

Statement:
My research lies at the boundary between physics and technology, focusing on the mechanisms of fundamental processes including strain relaxation, alloy formation, and diffusion; and correlations between microstructure and electronic and optical properties of semiconductor films, nanostructures, and heterostructures. I will bring to FIAP the unique experience of having studied and/or worked in a wide variety of institutions; including academia, industry, and national laboratory; and in a variety of academic departments, including Physics, Electrical Engineering, and Materials Science and Engineering. As FIAP member-at-large, I would work to ensure that FIAP continues to strengthen its unique role at the interface between physics and technology. I would also promote the professional, scientific, and technological development of FIAP members at the local, National, and International level.

Biography:
Rachel A. Segalman is an Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley and an Associate Faculty Scientist in the Materials Science Division of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratories. Segalman received her B.S. in Chemical Engineering with highest honors from the University of Texas at Austin. During the summers of 1993-96, she interned at Sandia National Laboratories (Albuquerque) and at the University of Texas. She then performed her doctoral work in Chemical Engineering (polymer physics) at the University of California, Santa Barbara in 1998-2002. Following her PhD, Segalman was a postdoctoral fellow at the Universite Louis Pasteur in Strasbourg France. She then joined the faculty of UC Berkeley in the spring of 2004 as the Charles Wilke Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering. Segalman is the author of more than 40 publications including 3 invited reviews and one book chapter. She has been granted two patents and one more is pending. She is an Alfred P. Sloan Fellow and has received the Presidential Early Career Award for Science and Engineering (PECASE), MDV Innovators Award, TR35: Technology Review’s Top Innovators Under 35, Hellman Family Young Faculty Award, 3M Untenured Faculty Award, NSF CAREER Award, Intel Young Faculty Seed Award, and Chateaubriand Postdoctoral Fellowship. She is currently serving on the Science and Technology Committees for Los Alamos and Livermore National Laboratories and is an Associate Editor for the Annual Reviews of Chemical Engineering. Segalman is also an active member of APS, ACS, MRS, and AIChE and sits on the Executive Committee for the UC Berkeley Graduate Group in Applied Science and Technology. Her website address is: http://www.cchem.berkeley.edu/rasgrp/

Statement:
My research lies at the intersection of materials chemistry, physics and technology, focusing on the fundamental processes that control structure at the nanometer lengthscale and then understanding how this structure affects properties. In particular, my group has focused on understanding structure property relationships in organic molecules for energy applications including photovoltaics, thermoelectrics, and fuel cells. I will bring to FIAP the experience of working at the intersection of fundamental and applied research simultaneously at an academic institution and a national laboratory. As FIAP member-at-large, I would work to help FIAP “take advantage of the evolving opportunities in the practice and application of physics” by fostering the participation of members from a variety of backgrounds and institutions.

Biography:
Robert Celotta is the current and founding director of NIST’s Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology. He received his B.S. in Physics from the City College of New York, and his Ph.D. in Physics from New York University. Following postdoctoral studies with John Hall at JILA in Boulder, Colorado, Robert joined the NIST (then NBS) staff in Gaithersburg, Maryland. During his career at NIST, he was a researcher in and leader of the Electron Physics Group, eventually being elected to be a NIST Fellow. Robert has authored over 250 publications, has given more than 350 presentations, and has been issued four patents in the fields of nanotechnology, surface and multilayer magnetism, spin polarized electron interactions, scanning tunneling microscopy, and nanostructure fabrication. He also co-edited Experimental Methods in the Physical Sciences, a series of over 20 books on experimental physics. Robert has received several awards including the American Vacuum Society’s Gaede-Langmuir Prize, New York University’s Alumni Achievement Award, the Federal Laboratory Consortium’s Excellence in Technology Transfer Award, two IR-100 Awards, NIST’s Edward Uhler Condon Award, and NIST’s William P. Slichter Award for strengthening ties between NIST and industry. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Vacuum Society, and the Washington Academy of Sciences. Having spent most of his career as an experimentalist working in surface science and nanotechnology, he is now occupied with directing a national user facility focused on providing access to the tools and measurement capabilities required to facilitate the development of nanotechnology from discovery to production.

Statement:
The US science and technology communities are facing a number of significant challenges today. More is expected of them as the US works to maintain a leadership position within the world economy. Further, the way scientific discoveries are made, and in particular, the path to turning them into successful technologies has been changing markedly. I bring a slightly different, and hopefully helpful, perspective to the leadership of the FIAP, one informed by my experience a NIST, a national laboratory, but in particular, a national laboratory that has always had a close and unique connection to the nation’s industries. In addition to working to highlight the creative and important contributions of those working in areas of applied physics, particularly to younger scientists to inform their career choice, I would also be interested in exploring and showcasing new promising, or older accomplished, ways that industrial, academic and governmental organizations can work together.

Biography:
Dr. Stefan Zollner is a CMOS integration engineer (a condensed matter physicist by training) with Freescale Semiconductor, Inc., on assignment at the IBM East Fishkill facility in New York. He studied semiconductor physics in Regensburg, Stuttgart (Germany), and Tempe, AZ. In 1991/92, he was a postdoc at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, NY, to work on strained Si and Si:C alloy growth development. In 1992, he became an Assistant Professor of Physics at Iowa State University, with a joint appointment at the Ames Laboratory (US-DOE). He joined Freescale Semiconductor (then Motorola) in 1997 as an analytical engineer. Most of his research has used spectroscopic ellipsometry to investigate novel electronic materials and their physical properties. More recently, he has worked on low-resistance contacts to CMOS nanodevices. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, Past Chair of FIAP (Forum on Industrial and Applied Physics), and was Vice Chair of the International Conference on the Physics of Semiconductors held in Flagstaff, AZ, in 2004. He is an author on over 100 printed publications and about 100 conference contributions. With S. Pantelides, he has edited a book on silicon-germanium-carbon alloys.

Statement:
About ten years ago, FIAP was founded to serve the industrial physics community in the APS. Over the years (and with my involvement), our purpose has changed and we have grown into the largest APS unit. Our goal is now to connect three different communities: Industrial APS members, academic physicists in other fields (such as engineering), and applied physicists everywhere (especially students interested in applied physics careers). For many years, I have supported this goal with professional committee service and by organizing FIAP sessions at APS meetings intended to strengthen the ties between these three groups and to highlight interesting industrial physics topics to the broader APS community. As FIAP Councilor, I will continue to support such programs. Additionally, we need to consider that over half of U.S. physics graduates are employed in industry. A significant percentage of APS members are industrial physicists. I will represent this group in the APS Council and will enhance APS membership benefits for industrial physicists, as identified by the recent APS Industrial Physics Task Force, such as access to current physics highlights, networking on the national and local scale, and recognition through awards, invited talks, and society fellowship.

Biography:
Rosenblum received his Applied Physics PhD from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor in 1997. Since graduating, his work has focused on taking ideas and techniques from research and propagating them to a broader audience – first with Kaiser Optical Systems, and since 1999 with Corning Incorporated. At Kaiser he collaborated with Fortune 500 chemical and electronics companies to deploy turn-key analyzers utilizing Raman spectroscopy. At Corning he spent eight years developing models for characterizing optical waveguide attributes and manufacturing processes. In early 2007 he moved to business development role, and finds new markets for Corning Incorporated's technology portfolio.

Rosenblum holds five patents and a similar number of journal publications.

Statement:
Representing less than 200 ppm of the US population, we physicists can increase our impact if we shift how we think about our work from being symbiotic to being catalytic. Rather than merely repaying the resources society and industry provide with our own aperiodic inventions and discoveries, our small numbers require that we drive technologies and breakthroughs beyond our disciplines and institutions if we are to continue having the disproportionate impact on society we had in the 20th century. I view FIAP as the vessel by which we can enable this shift.

Metaphors make for good rhetoric, but do not form a plan. Anecdotal data from my own experience and that of my peers at other companies indicate two obstacles that greatly hinder us from interacting more strongly within the greater industrial world:

1. draconian terms and conditions required by universities for collaborations
2. unreasonable fear of IP leakage on the part of corporations

My goal as Member At Large will be to use our Society as a means of facilitating relationships between institutions. I want to listen to other members' experiences and find a set of common needs for the APS and FIAP to fill. Whether we learn that FIAP's best course lies in sponsoring the development of standard collaboration contracts or in lobbying congress for changes in intellectual property law, the APS's neutrality makes it an ideal organization for leading this work.

Biography:
Venkatesan has been a Physicist and manager for 17 years with Bell Labs and Bellcore and in the last 17 years has been with the Center for Superconductivity Research at University of Maryland, College Park. He founded the Surface Center at Rutgers University where he was a Professor for about five years (85-90). Currently he is leading an effort in Oxide Electronics at UMD and starting 2008 will be directing a Center of Excellence in Nano-structured Materials, devices and systems at the National University of Singapore. He pioneered the Pulsed Laser deposition process and was the first to elucidate the intricacies of the process to make this a reproducible laboratory technique for the growth of high quality multi-component oxide thin films. He is an ISI highly cited Physicist (ranked 66) has over 450 papers and 27 patents in the area of oxides involving superconductors, magnetic and optical materials. He is a Fellow of the American Physical society, World Innovation Forum, winner of the Bellcore award of excellence and the UMD graduate Board award. He was a member of the Physics Policy Committee and is the founding member of the International Oxide Electronics Workshop. In 1989 he founded Neocera, a company specializing in pulsed laser and electron deposition equipments and also commercialized the HTS SQUID based magnetic microscope MAGMA for semiconductor failure analysis used by virtually all leading semiconductor manufacturers in the world today. A technology based on the scanning microwave near field microscope for silicon low K metrology was commercialized and sold to Solid State Measurements (SSM). He has helped many of his students and post docs in starting companies and 8 of them have started small companies or are holding executive positions in entrepreneurial ventures. He has raised venture capital money over several rounds and has been on the advisory board of the New Market Venture fund of UMD Dingman Center, the UMD incubator and has been involved in promoting entrepreneurship among young researchers. He is a member of the Washington TIE chapter and the greater Washington Indian CXO Forum.

Statement:
FIAP has traditionally fostered better relationship between the world of Physics and the industry. I would like in addition, to stress entrepreneurship in my tenure at FIAP. The enrollment of students in a field is correlated with the ability of the student to make a decent living out of the education and the degree finally obtained. Most Physics students enter the field with the view of becoming a faculty or an industrial or National Labs researcher and in some rare cases a teacher. We must some how change this limited view. In today’s research the link between Physics and technology is ever greater such that opportunities for business startups lurk in every corner and it is a matter of a young person being mentally prepared to take advantage of such opportunities. My firm belief is that out of the many young researchers in the field of Physics close to 10-20% have the skills to become entrepreneurs. Lack of know how prevents many of them from choosing this option. I will use the FIAP as a platform to promote entrepreneurship among our graduate and post-doctoral researchers so that we make job creators out of these bright individuals vs. job seekers. I would like to bring out an entrepreneurial guide for initiating people into thinking about striking out on their own, arrange for Physicist turned entrepreneurs to give talks at the APS meetings and other popular forums and also help provide linkages (web based) to students to various entrepreneurial resources that are already there that they can tap into.

Research Scientist
US Army TACOM Research and Engineering Center (TARDEC) in Survivability
Troy, Michigan

Biography:
Thomas J. Meitzler received his B.S. and M.S. in Physics from Eastern Michigan University, completed graduate coursework at the University of Michigan, and received a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Wayne State University in Detroit.

His doctoral dissertation in Electrical Engineering at Wayne State University was on Modern Methods for Computing the Probability of Target Detection in Cluttered Environments. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) and Senior Member of the Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). He is the Ground System Survivability Senior Technical Expert.

During the time from 1988 to present, Dr. Meitzler has been a research scientist at the US Army TACOM Research and Engineering Center (TARDEC) in Survivability. For the U.S. Army, Dr. Meitzler has been involved with the validation, verification, and development of infrared, electro-optical and human visual acquisition models and atmospheric simulation. Dr. Meitzler was the principal scientist of the TARDEC Visual Perception Laboratory and the principal investigator on a CRADA with GM and Ford Motor Company to apply visual target acquisition models to vehicle conspicuity and novel sensors to automobile 360 degree safety. Dr. Meitzler has been the lead on several CRADA’s with NASA’s Kennedy Space Center and with the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. He has authored/co-authored many papers in the area of Electro Optic system simulation and visual detection, sensor validation, nondestructive testing on armor materials, spintronics and metamaterials.

Dr. Meitzler has developed and integrated technologies for embedded armor health-monitoring, armor Non Destructive testing, and armor embedded radio signal detection. His research interests include infrared sensor characterization, non-destructive testing, nano-electronics, and spintronics. Dr. Meitzler proposed a method for embedded armor health assessment that involves embedded piezoelectric transducers and nano electronics and built a laboratory around that idea.

Statement:
I have worked both in the academic and Department of Defense sectors for most of my professional career. As a treasurer/secretary of the FIAP I hope to get greater familiarity with the technical fields that my colleagues are working on and encourage the growth and membership of the FIAP technical society.

As our country strives to make our economy stronger, the role that Applied Physicists play in industry and government is crucial if we expect to expand the rate of innovation and maintain our technical leadership. Government and Industry must work together to foster and nurture workplaces and opportunities for technical creativity. If elected to the position of FIAP treasurer/secretary I will try to maintain growth of the FIAP and at the same time apply due diligence to the monitoring of our available fiscal resources.

Research Scientist
The Dow Chemical Company
Collegeville, Pennsylvania

Biography:
Tirtha Chatterjee is a Research Scientist at The Dow Chemical Company. He received his PhD degree in Chemical Engineering in 2008 from the University of Houston after which he pursued a post-doctoral fellowship at the Materials Research Laboratory at the University of California at Santa Barbara. He joined The Dow Chemical Company in 2010. His research interests include structure and property of polymers and soft matters. Tirtha has authored 2 book chapters, 23 peer-reviewed publications, 2 granted patents and also has filed several priority patent applications. He is actively involved in external scientific activities such as reviewing proposals for NSF (DMR), NIST Neutron scattering beam time allocations, reviewing manuscripts for several peer-reviewed journals and organizing multiple sessions at the APS March meeting (DPOLY, FIAP). Specifically, he has served in the organizing committee of the first-ever APS “Industry Day” Symposium held in 2015 and represented his organization(Dow) as an invited participant in the “Soft Matter working group discussions” that initiated the formation of the APS GSOFT forum. Tirtha also served as the DPOLY education committee member for the 2014-2016 cycle.

Statement:
One of the major goals of the FIAP is to encourage and build a lasting relationship between industry and society specifically future generation of bright scientists. I am an industrial researcher and have been associated with the APS for 12 years now. In my journey from graduate student to a professional I have greatly benefited from close association with the APS community which I would like to extend to the current pool of developing scientists. Graduate students that are introduced to APS during their training years often tend to move out of the organization after entering non-academic research pathways such as industry. As an organization it is important to stress on the continuum of members through different phases of their career and to create a unified platform for interaction of researchers from different walks of society. If elected in the FIAP executive committee as a Member-at-large, my primary agenda would be to provide direction to our future generation of scientists (graduate students) by connecting them with professionals in the industry (FIAP members). Specific objectives would be:

1. Promoting career counselling and network building for graduate students
2. Working with other APS groups/divisions to ensure increased industry participation
3. Continuing to work towards building a strong industry-academia relationship that will foster a strong connection between basic and applied research [especially for professionals working in smaller organizations that do not have existing resources for such opportunities].

Program Director
Electronics, Photonics, and Magnetic Devices Program
Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems (ECCS)
Directorate for Engineering
National Science Foundation
Arlington, VA, USA

Biography:
Dr. Usha Varshney is a Program Director for Electronics, Photonics, and Magnetic Devices in the Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems (ECCS) at the National Science Foundation, managing the interdisciplinary science and engineering research thrust areas for spin electronics, micro and nanomagnetic devices and circuits, memories, bioelectronics, molecular electronics, quantum devices, and sensors technologies.

From 2005 to 2008, she served as the Division Director following her service as Acting Division Director of ECCS from 2004 to 2005. She joined the National Science Foundation in 1997, as Program Director of Physical Foundations of Enabling Technologies, and Integrative Systems programs, in the Division of Electrical and Communications Systems (ECS). From 2003 to 2004, Dr. Varshney was a Legislative Fellow in the United States 108th Congress, and a ComSci Fellow in the Science and Technology Fellowship Program of the U.S. Department of Commerce, during which time she worked on Capitol Hill in processing and management of Senate legislative actions relating to Science, Nanotechnology and Space in the Office of Virginia Senator George Allen. She had a leadership role in the passage of Senate Bill S.189 on Nanotechnology signed into law (PL 108‐153) by President Bush on December 3, 2003, and in the organization of the bipartisan and bicameral "Congressional Nanotechnology Caucus" established by Senator Allen on April 1, 2004. From 1997 to 2003, as a Program Director in the Division of Electrical and Communications Systems, Dr. Varshney managed interdisciplinary science and engineering research thrust areas for micro and nanoelectronics, spin electronics, molecular electronics, flexible electronics, organic electronics, micro and nanomagnetics, integrated solid state devices and circuits, and integrative systems.

Prior to joining the National Science Foundation, for over ten years in industry she served as Director of Research, Senior Research Scientist, and Research Scientist, at the American Research Corporation of Virginia (ARCOVA). As Director of Research from 1995-1997, she directed the overall research and development of multidisciplinary programs in science, engineering and education, and managed technical programs in laser processing of materials, fiber optics, chemical and biological sensors, nondestructive evaluation of materials, laser-aligned robotic machining systems, and multimedia educational software systems. From October 1987-1997 as Senior Research Scientist and Research Scientist, she was involved in a broad range of science and technology programs of national interest including fabrication, characterization and testing of novel materials, thin films and devices for integrated planar electronic and magnetic devices and circuits, monolithic magnetics for megahertz frequency high-density power supplies, nonvolatile random access memories, uncooled focal plane arrays, radiation- resistant photovoltaic devices, thermal detectors, superconducting antennas, and flat panel displays. She also conducted research in ceramic-to- metal joining of radome components, plasma-deposited coatings for oxidation protection of carbon-carbon composites for spacecraft structures in low-earth orbit, laser brazing of radome components, and high Tc superconducting fibers for interconnects and devices. Research outcomes have been published in more than seventy technical journals, conference proceedings and government reports. She has also held professional appointments at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Merrimac Magnetics, and Chronar Corporation following the award of her Ph.D. degree in Physics from the Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi, in 1983.

Dr. Varshney is a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS), a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). Since 2010 to present, she serves as an Editorial Board member of the Proceedings of the IEEE and has served as an Editorial Board member of the IEEE Educational Activities Board (EAB) for Engineering, Technology & Computing Portals (ETCP), an elected member of the Advisory Committee (AdCom) of the IEEE Magnetic Society, and the IEEE Electron Devices Society's (EDS) liaison to the IEEE Women in Engineering Committee (WIEC), and is a Life Member of IEEE Electron Devices Society (EDS). She has also served as a member of the Joint Commission on Technology and Science (JCOTS) Advisory Committee on Nanotechnology for the Commonwealth of Virginia. Dr. Varshney is coeditor of four books, an inventor on seven patents, and has also been the recipient of a number of honors and awards, while in industry and at the National Science Foundation.

Statement:
Physics is fundamental to new discovery, solving technological problems as well as to develop and improve industrial products. If elected, I plan to support industrial physics and foster the industrial physics community by encouraging programs of the APS Forum on Industrial and Applied Physics (FIAP) that will increase industrial mentorship, internships for introducing physicists to industrial practices and for graduates entering industry, adding Industrial career guidance and entrepreneurship sessions at the national and section meetings, and mentoring for mid-career physicists, as identified in the workshop report on ‘National Issues in Industrial Physics Challenges and Opportunities’ sponsored by the APS and FIAP (October 2014), and summarized in the APS News Article (John Rumble, Vol.24, No 9, October 2015).