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Department of Materials Science and Engineering
328 Hears Mining Memorial Building
EDUCATION
Diploma (Nuclear Physics), Univ. of Basel, Switzerland, 1967
Ph.D. (Solid State and Applied Physics) Univ. of Basel, Switzerland, 1970
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Professor, Dept. of Mat. Sci. and Eng., Univ. of California at Berkeley, 1982 to date
Liao-Cho Innovation Endowed Chair, Univ. of California at Berkeley, 2005
Associate Professor, Dept. of Mat. Sci. and Min. Eng., Univ. of California at Berkeley, 1980-82
Faculty Senior Scientist, Lawrence Berkeley Nat. Laboratory, Univ. of Calif., 1980 to date
Distinguished Professor at Keio University, Tokyo, 2004
Visiting Professor at the Paul Drude Inst., Berlin, 2004
Visiting Professor at the Physics Dept., University of Muenster, Muenster, 2004
Visiting Professor at the German Aerospace Association (DLR) labs, Adlershof, Berlin, 1994
Visiting Professor at the Imperial College of Sci., Techn., & Med., London, 1991
Alexander von Humboldt U.S. Senior Scientist at the Max-Planck-Institut für Festkörperforschung, Stuttgart, Germany, 1986
Staff/Senior Staff Scientist, Lawrence Berkeley Nat. Laboratory, Univ. of Calif., 1973-1980
Postdoctoral Fellow, Lawrence Berkeley Nat. Laboratory, Univ. of Calif., 1971-1973
Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute for Applied Physics, University of Basel, 1970-1971
AWARDS and FELLOWSHIPS
David Turnbull Lectureship Award of the Mat. Res. Society, 2005
Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2004
James C. McGroddy Prize for New Materials, Am. Phys. Soc. 1999
Max-Planck-Research Prize of the Max-Planck-Society, Germany 1994
Research Professor, Miller Foundation for Basic Research in Science, 1990 & 2001
Fellow, American Physical Society, 1986
Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, U.S. Senior Scientist Award 1986
SELECTED PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Member, Advisory Board of the Paul-Drude-Institute, Berlin, Nov. 2000 to date
Chair 20th Intl. Confr. on Defects in Semic., (ICDS-20), Berkeley, July 26-30, 1999
Co-chairman, 1st & 6th Intl. Conf. on Shallow Level Centers in Semiconductors, Berkeley, CA 1984 & 1994
Member, Editorial Advisory Boards of the Journal of Physics and Chemistry of Solids, 1993 to date, for Materials Science Foundation, Trans Tech Publications, 1997 to date and for Reviews, Journal of Applied Physics, 3/99 to date
Member Intl. Assessment Team for the SAFIRE far IR Detectors, NASA Langley, 1991
Chairman, Workshop on "Semiconductor Thermistors for milliKelvin Operation" sponsored by the NSF Center for Particle Astrophysics, Berkeley 5/30&31/1991
Review Committee, Brookhaven National Laboratory Instrum. Division, 1987 - 1993
Member of the US DOE Panel on "Hydrogen Interactions in Materials," La Jolla CA, 1990
Co-chairman, Materials Research Society Symposium on "Defects, Impurities and Diffusion: Bulk and Layered Structures," Fall Meeting 1989
Member Jap. Techn. Panel on Sensors, U.S. Nat. Acad. of Science and NSF, 1988
Co-chairman, Materials Research Society Symp. on "Radiation Detector Materials," 1982
PUBLICATIONS
Over 750 articles in refereed journals, refereed confr. proceedings and book chapters
PATENTS
U.S. Patent 4,589,006, "Germanium Detector Passivated with Hydrogenated Amorphous Germanium," 5/13/1986
U.S. Patent 5,110,679, "Hard Carbon Nitride and a Method of Preparing Same," 5/5/1992
U.S. Patent 6,011,810, "Doping of Germanium and Silicon Crystals with Non-Hydrogenic Acceptors for Far Infrared Lasers," 1/4/2000
GRADUATE AND POSTGRADUATE ADVISEES
Total number of graduate students advised: 32 PhD and 40 MS; postdocs: 14
Professor of Energy and Society
Energy and Resources Group (ERG)
Director, Renewable and Appropriate Energy Laboratory (RAEL)
Energy and Resources Group
Department of Nuclear Engineering
310 Barrows Hall (Office)
4152 Etcheverry Hall (RAEL)MC 1730
Professional Preparation
Cornell University Physics (Cum Laude) B.A. 1984
Harvard University Physics M.A.1986
Harvard University Physics Ph.D. 1988
Appointments
Faculty Positions: Class of 1935 Distinguished Chair in Energy (2004 - ); Professor, Goldman School of Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley (2001-present); Professor, Energy and Resources Group, University of California, Berkeley (2001-present); Professor, Department of Nuclear Engineering, University of California, Berkeley (2001-present); Associate Professor, Energy and Resources Group (1998-2001); Assistant Professor of Public and International Affairs, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University (1993-98).
Administration and Research:Co-Director, Berkeley Institute of the Environment (2005 -);Founding Director, Renewable and Appropriate Energy Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley (1998-present); Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Physics and Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, (1991 – 1993); Weizmann Postdoctoral Fellow, Division of Engineering, and Division of Biology, California Institute of Technology (1998 – 1991). Permanent Fellow, African Academy of Sciences (2000 – present). Fellow, American Physical Society (1999 – present); Chair, Science, Technology and Environmental Policy Program, Princeton University (1994 – 1998).
National Advisory Board, Union of Concerned Scientists (2004 – present); Board of Directors, The Utility Reform Network (2002 – present), Associate Editor, Annual Review of Environment and Resources (2002-present).
Publications (168 journal articles; 5 books; 20+ research reports; 5 US House and Senate Committee Testimonies)
5 publications closely related to proposed work:
Bailis, R., Ezzati, M. and Kammen, D. M. (2005) “Mortality and greenhouse gas impacts of biomass and petroleum energy futures in Africa”, 308, Science, 98 – 103.
Herzog, A. V., Lipman, T., Edwards, J. and Kammen, D. M. (2001) “Renewable Energy: A Viable Choice”, Environment, 43 (10), 8 – 20.
Ezzati, M. and Kammen, D. (2001) “Indoor air pollution from biomass combustion and acute respiratory infections in Kenya: An Exposure-response study”, The Lancet, 358, 619 – 624.
Baer, P., Harte, J., Herzog, A., Holdren, J., Hultman, N., Kammen, D. M., Kresch, B., Norgaard, R., and Raymond, L. (2000) “Equal per capita emission rights: the key to a viable climate change policy”, Science 289, 2287.
Margolis, R. and Kammen, D. M. (1999) “Underinvestment: The energy technology and R&D policy challenge”, Science, 285, 690 - 692.
(ii) 5 other selected publications:
Kammen, D., M. and Pacca, S. (2004) “Assessing the costs of electricity”, Annual Review of Environment and Resources, 29, 1 – 44.
Ezzati, M. and Kammen, D. M. (2002) “Household Energy, Indoor Air Pollution and Public Health: Research and Policy Needs in Developing Countries”, Annual Review of Energy and the Environment, 27, 1-38.
Bailis, R., Ezzati, M., and Kammen, D. M. (2003) “Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Cooking Technologies in Kenya”, Environmental Science & Technology, 37 (10), 2051 - 2059.
Ezzati, M. and Daniel M. Kammen (2001) “Evaluating the health benefits of transitions in household energy technologies in Kenya,” Energy Policy, 30, 815 – 826.
Duke, R. D., and Kammen, D. M. (1999) “The economics of energy market transformation initiatives”, The Energy Journal, 20 (4), 15 – 64.
Kammen, D. M. and Hassenzahl, D. M. Should We Risk It? Exploring Environmental, Health and Technological Problem Solving, in press, Princeton University Press. ISBN 0-169-00426-9, 406 pages, 77 tables, 82 illustrations.. Book Club Selection: Library of Science. Reviewed in Science, Risk Analysis, Scientific American, WholeEarth.
Synergistic Activities.
(i) Research and Project Management
Member, Science and Technology Review Committee for the Global Environment Facility (GEF) for which he has reviewed, and participated in project and budget evaluation and oversight for over $1.4 billion in international energy and environmental projects, ranging in size from $5 - $400 million.
(ii) Curriculum and Program Development
Professor Kammen was the Chair of the Science, Technology and Environmental Policy Program at Princeton University, and played a significant role in developing the program. At Berkeley he is the founding director of the Renewable and Appropriate Energy Laboratory, Kammen has been a visiting lecturer in the Department of Physics, the University of Nairobi. Kammen serves on the executive committee of the Berkeley Institute of the Environment (formation in progress)
(iii) Public and Professional Lectures
Professor Kammen lectures internationally on a regular basis. Within the last six months he has been invited and spoke at the Erice Summer School in Physics, Sicily, Italy; Harvard, Princeton, Yale, Stanford, and Duke Universities. He has testified in front of both U. S. House and Senate committees on a range of energy, environment, and technology issues, as well in front of State of California energy and environmental committees.
(iv) Consultancies
Professor Kammen provides technical and policy input, reviews, and consultancies for, the U.S. Department of Energy, and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the World Bank, the World Health Organization, the President’s Council on Science and Technology, the Government of Sweden, and the United Nations Development Program.
(v) Service to the Scientific Community
Professor Kammen is a regular reviewer for Science, Nature, Environmental Science & Technology, Energy Policy, and The Energy Journal. He has served on US EPA and US DoE review committees, as well as on committees of the National Academy of Science. Kammen has been on the review committee for the Link Energy Fellowships, and a consultant for the e7 Energy Fellowships (for students from developing nations).
(vi) Student Mentoring
Professor Kammen currently supervises 13 doctoral and six masters students, teaches courses on career development in energy science and policy, teaches the gateway course at UC Berkeley on ‘energy and society’, and has mentored undergraduates at UC Berkeley, Princeton University, and Harvard University, as well as through minority science and engineering programs.
(vii) Research Support
US Dept. of Energy, The Energy Foundation, the California Energy Commission, ITRI (current annual total ~ $900,000/year).
(viIi) Pending Research Support
U. S. Department of Energy & California Energy Commission ($450,000 over 2 years); Karsten Family Foundation ($100,000);
Professor
Chemical Engineering Department
411A Latimer
Education
University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE; B.S. Chemistry & Biology,1986
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI; Ph.D.Chemical Engineering, 1991
Stanford University, Stanford, CA; Postdoc Biochemistry,1991-92
Professional Experience
Professor (2001 – present), Vice Chair (1999 – 2000), Associate Professor (1998 – 2001), Assistant Professor (1992 – 1998), Department of Chemical Engineering, University of California at Berkeley. Faculty Scientist (1992 – present), Division Director (2005 – present), Physical Bioscience Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Department Head (2003 – present), Synthetic Biology Department, Physical Bioscience Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA. Director (2001 – 2003) University of California Systemwide BioSTAR Project. Chair, Executive Committee, University of California Industry-University Cooperative Research Program (2003 – present). Associate Editor, Biotechnology & Bioengineering (1991 – 1994). Postdoctoral Research Associate (1991 – 1992). Dept. of Biochemistry, Stanford University School. Research Assistant (1986 – 1991) Dept. of Chemical Engineering, University of Michigan.
Honors
Technology Pioneer Award, World Economic Forum, Davos, Switzerland, 2006. Seventh Annual Frontiers of Biotechnology Lecture, Department of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2005. Blue-Green Lecturer, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Michigan & Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Sciences, Michigan State University, 2005. Inaugural Schwartz Lecturer, Department of Chemical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, 2003. Allan P. Colburn Memorial Lecturer, University of Delaware, 2002. Elected Fellow of the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering, 2000. AIChE Award for Chemical Engineering Excellence in Academic Teaching, Northern California Section of the American Institute for Chemical Engineers, 1999. Chevron Young Faculty Fellowship, Chevron, 1995. CAREER Award, National Science Foundation, 1995. Zeneca Young Faculty Fellowship, Zeneca Ltd., 1992-1997. NIH Postdoctoral Fellowship, Stanford University, 1991-1992. Regents Scholarship, The University of Nebraska, 1982-1986. Graduation with High Distinction, The University of Nebraska, 1986.
Memberships and Service
Associate Editor, 2001 to present, Biotechnology & Bioengineering. Editorial Board, 2001 to present, Metabolic Engineering. Editorial Board, 2000 to present, Applied & Environmental Microbiology. Phi Beta Kappa, American Chemical Society, American Institute of Chemical Engineers, American Society for Microbiology, American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering
Selected peer-reviewed publications from 105 papers
Department of Chemistry
213A Lewis Hall
Professional Experience
Associate Professor and Vice Chair of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley 2003-present
Assistant Professor of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley 1997-2003
Education
B.A. summa cum laude in Chemistry and cum laude in Mathematics Cornell University, 1991
Ph.D. in Chemistry with Prof. Richard H. Holm Harvard University, 1995
Postdoctoral Fellow with Prof. Richard H. Holm Harvard University, 1995-1996
Postdoctoral Fellow with Prof. A. Paul Alivisatos University of California, Berkeley, 1996-1997
Professional Service
Planning Committee, Third NSF Workshop on the Status of Solid State Chemistry 2005
Councilor, Division of Inorganic Chemistry, American Chemical Society 2005-present
Associate, Committee on Divisional Activities 2006-present
Symposium Organizer for the 229th Meeting of the American Chemical Society 2005
CAREER Award Panelist, National Science Foundation 2002
Awards and Honors
PLU Carl Fresenius Award Lectureship (Department of Chemistry, Purdue University, 2005)
National Fresenius Award (FLU, 2004)
National Science Foundation Special Creativity Award (2003-2005)
TR100 Award (MIT’s Technology Review magazine, 2002)
Wilson Prize (Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University, 2002)
Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship (2001-2003)
Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award (2000)
Hellman Family Faculty Award (University of California, Berkeley, 1999)
Research Corporation Research Innovation Award (1998)
National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Research Fellowship (1996-1997)
Office of Naval Research Predoctoral Fellowship (1991-1994)
Mandelkern Prize (Department of Chemistry, Cornell University, 1991)
Research Interests
Inorganic and Solid State Chemistry: rational approaches to the synthesis of inorganic clusters and solids; electronic and magnetic properties of inorganic materials; microporous solids; structural systemization of solid state chemistry; electron transport through molecular inorganic clusters; hydrogen storage materials.
Professor
Civil and Environmental Engineering
425 Davis Hall
Education
Ph.D. |
Chemical Engineering, Silesian Technical University, Poland |
1980 |
M.S. |
Chemical Engineering, Silesian Technical University, Poland |
197 |
Professor Patzek conducts research in a wide range of areas, including energy flow in human activities, sustainability, renewability and biofuels; Micro-scale (~1cm3) transport and mechanical properties of natural rocks; Calculations of relative permeabilities and capillary pressures in drainage and imbibition, and in two- and three-phase flow of immiscible fluids; Strictly hyperbolic continuum relative permeability models in three-phase flows of immiscible fluids; Development of stabilized finite-element algorithms to model two- and three-phase flow of multi-component fluids, with application to problems involving shocks and boundary layers; Cradle-to-grave supervisory control of oilfield projects, satellite radar interferometry (InSAR) imaging, smart process-based controllers; Imaging of hydrofracture growth through extended hydraulic impedance methods.
Research Interests
- Energy flow in human activities, sustainability, renewability, biofuels
- Micro-scale (~1cm3) transport and mechanical properties of natural rocks: development of electronic core lab.
- Calculations of relative permeabilities and capillary pressures in drainage and imbibition, and in two- and three-phase flow of immiscible fluids.
- Micro-scale depositional models of sedimentary rocks: pore space reconstruction from Discrete Element depositional and compaction models with cementation, from 3D micro-focused CT images, and from statistical models based on 2D thin sections.
- Micro-scale rock damage: Discrete Element simulations of bi- and tri-axial rock compression experiments, generation and coalescence of microcracks, development of fractures.
- Strictly hyperbolic continuum relative permeability models in three-phase flows of immiscible fluids.
- Continuum non-equilibrium models of counter- and co-current imbibition, spontaneous and forced.
- Continuum models of damage evolution in almost impermeable, fragile rocks.
- Development of stabilized finite-element algorithms to model two- and three-phase flow of multi-component fluids, with application to problems involving shocks and boundary layers.
- Optimal control of fluid injection into low-permeability rocks through growing hydrofractures and with increasing rock damage.
- Cradle-to-grave supervisory control of oilfield projects, satellite radar interferometry (InSAR) imaging, smart process-based controllers.
- Imaging of hydrofracture growth through extended hydraulic impedance methods.
- Simplified models of contaminant transport in the subsurface, policy issues with MTBE plumes.
Chemical Engineering Department
101C Gilman Hall
U.C. Berkeley
Jeffrey A. Reimer is a professor of chemical engineering at the University of California at Berkeley and a faculty scientist at the E.O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Professor Reimer teaches undergraduate and graduate chemical engineering, particularly introductory courses in mathematical modeling of physical and chemical phenomena, including industrial and environmental chemistry. From 2000 to 2005 he was an Associate Dean in the UC Berkeley Graduate Division where his responsibilities included the assessment of doctoral programs and academic quality, as well as oversight of those campus-wide information resources and technologies that support graduate students. He has also been influential in departmental and campus-wide activities on graduate student preparation for teaching. Professor Reimer has lectured on materials chemistry in the Berkeley community, including high school students, University support staff, parents of undergraduates, and friends of the University. In 1998 he won the Donald Sterling Noyce Prize for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching in the Physical Sciences, and was given the AIChE Northern California Section Award for Chemical Engineering Excellence in Academic Teaching. In 2000 he was awarded the Chemical Engineering Departmental Outstanding Teaching Award. Professor Reimer was awarded the Distinguished Teaching Award in 2003, the highest award bestowed on faculty for their teaching.
Professor Reimer was born in Van Nuys, California and received his bachelors degree (with honors) from the University of California at Santa Barbara. Upon publication of his interdisciplinary work examining the chemistry and physics of solar cell materials, he obtained his doctorate from the California Institute of Technology in 1980. Prior to his appointment at Berkeley in 1982, he was a postdoctoral fellow at IBM Research in Yorktown Heights, New York, where he engaged in basic and applied research in semiconductor science and technology. He received the Presidential Young Investigator Award in 1985, and was named a Camille and Henry Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar in 1987. In 2002 he was named the R.W. Vaughan Lecturer at the Rocky Mountain Conference on Analytical Chemistry and Applied Spectroscopy, in recognition for his numerous contributions in the field of magnetic resonance spectroscopy. Professor Reimer was named a Mercator Professor of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) at RWTH Aachen University in 2006.
Professor Reimer has given invited lectures on four continents, and is distinguished by having been invited to speak at a broad collection of learned societies, including the American Physical Society, the American Chemical Society, the Materials Research Society, the Electrochemical Society, the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, and the American Association for Higher Education. He is author or co-author of over 128 technical papers and reviews, as well as co-author (with T.M. Duncan) of the highly regarded introductory text Chemical Engineering Design and Analysis (Cambridge University Press, 1998). This text is available in Chinese and Korean.
The goal of Professor Reimer's research is to apply the principles and methods of spectroscopy toward societal problems, including energy conservation, chemical catalysis, and molecular imaging. His group consists of experimentalists that use many different tools for their research, yet retain special expertise and interest in magnetic resonance (MR) spectroscopy and imaging methods.
Recent Papers
“Mechanism of Lithium Insertion into Magnesium Silicide," G. A. Roberts, E. J. Cairns, and J. A. Reimer, 2004 Journal of The Electrochemical Society 151 A493.
“Nitrous oxide decomposition and surface oxygen formation on Fe-ZSM-5,” Benjamin R. Wood, Jeffrey A. Reimer, Alexis T. Bell, Michael T. Janicke, Kevin C. Ott, 2004 Journal of Catalysis 224 148.
“Three-dimensional phase-encoded chemical shift MRI in the presence of inhomogeneous fields,” Vasiliki Demas, Dimitris Sakellariou, Carlos Meriles, Songi Han, Jeffrey Reimer and Alexander Pines, 2004 PNAS 101 8845.
“Methanol formation on Fe/Al-MFI via the oxidation of methane by nitrous oxide," Benjamin R. Wood, Jeffrey A. Reimer, Alexis T. Bell, Michael T. Janicke and Kevin C. Ott 2004 Journal of Catalysis 225 300.
“Diagnostic analysis of electrodes from high-power lithium-ion cells cycled under different conditions," K.A. Striebel, J. Shim, E.J. Cairns, R. Kostecki, Y.J. Lee, J. Reimer, T.J. Richardson, P.N. Ross, X. Song, G.V. Zhuang 2004 Journal of the Electrochemical Society 151 A857.
“Nuclear spin temperature and magnetization transport in laser-enhanced NMR of bulk GaAs,” A. K. Paravastu and J.A. Reimer, 2005 Physical Review B 71 045215.
“High-Resolution NMR Spectroscopy with a Portable Single-Sided Sensor,” Juan Perlo, Vasiliki Demas, Federico Casanova, Carlos A. Meriles, Jeffrey Reimer, Alexander Pines, Bernhard Blümich, 2005 Science 308 Issue 5726 p 1279.
“Layered Nickel Oxide-Based Cathodes for Lithium Cells: Analysis of Performance Loss Mechanisms," 2005 Marie Kerlau, Jeffrey A. Reimer, and Elton J. Cairns, Journal of The Electrochemical Society, 152 A1629.
“Photocurrent-modulated optical nuclear polarization in bulk GaAs," 2005 Anant K. Paravastu, Patrick J. Coles, Jeffrey A. Reimer, Thaddeus D. Ladd, Robert S. Maxwell, Applied Physics Letters 87 232109.
“An effective stochastic excitation strategy for finding elusive NMR signals from solids," 2006 Sam L. Wilcke, Elton J. Cairns, Jeffrey A. Reimer, Solid State Nuclear Magnetic Resonance 29 199.
Professor
Department of EECS
565 Cory Hall
Seth R. Sanders received the S.B. degrees in electrical engineering and physics and the S.M. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, in 1981, 1985, and 1989, respectively.
He was a Design Engineer at the Honeywell Test Instruments Division, Denver, CO. Since 1989, he has been on the faculty of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California, Berkeley, where he is presently Professor. His research interests are in high frequency power conversion circuits and components, in design and control of electric machine systems, and in nonlinear circuit and system theory as related to the power electronics field. He is presently actively supervising research projects in the areas of flywheel energy storage, novel electric machine design, renewable energy, and digital pulse-width modulation strategies and associated IC designs for power conversion applications. During the 1992 to 1993 academic year, he was on industrial leave with National Semiconductor, Santa Clara, CA.
Dr. Sanders received the NSF Young Investigator Award in 1993 and Best Paper Awards from the IEEE Power Electronics Society and the IEEE Industry Applications Society. He has served as Chair of the IEEE Technical Committee on Computers in Power Electronics, and as a Member-At-Large of the IEEE PELS Adcom.
Selected recent publications
Professor
Materials Science and Engineering
374 Hearst Memorial Mining Building
EDUCATION
B.S. University of Cologne, West-Germany 1970
M.S. University of Cologne, West-Germany 1973
Ph.D. University of Cologne, West-Germany 1976
thesis: "Point Defects in Deformed Silicon"
Habilitation and Venia Legendi in Physics, University of Cologne, West-Germany 1983
thesis: "Transition Metals in Silicon"
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Professor of Materials Science, University of California, Berkeley, 1991-
Assistant, Associate Professor of Materials Science, University of California, Berkeley, 1983-91
Faculty Investigator, Center for Advanced Materials, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory 1987-
Member of Technical Staff (part-time), Hewlett Packard Laboratories, 1983-87
Research Associate, University of Lund (Sweden), 1982-83
Scientific Assistant, University of Cologne, West-Germany, 1976-82
Scientific Assistant, RWTH Aachen, West-Germany, 1973-76
RECENT PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Program chair, 7th Internat. Conf. on Semi-Insulating III/V Materials, 1992
Co-chair, four Symposia, Materials Research Society (MRS), Boston and San Francisco
Chair, Gordon Conference on Defects in Semiconductors, 1987
Chair, 2. Internat. Conf. on Defect Recognition and Image Processing in III-V Semic., 1987
Chair, Gettering Fundamentals team of the SEMATECH task force on the SIA roadmap, 1993-96
Member, National Research Council panel for the Associateship program, 1993-curr.;
Member, DOE Research Assistance Task Force on Photovoltaic Materials, 1992
Member, Internat. Advisory Committee:.
- Internat. Conf. on Defects in Semiconductors (ICDS) 1986-97;
- Internat. Conf. on Gettering and Defect Engineering in Semiconductors (GADEST) 1987-95;
- Internat. Conf. on Defect Recognition and Image Processing in Semic. (DRIP) 1985-91;
- Internat. Conf. on Materials for Microelectronics (MFM) 1996-;
Member, Program Committee of ICDS 1982, 1984, 1991;
Member, Scientific Council, Institut for High-Pressure Physics (UNIPRESS),
Warsaw, Poland, 1996-;
Member, Founding Committee, Center for Advanced European Studies and Research (CAESAR),
Bonn, Germany 1996-;
President, Berkeley Chapter of the Alexander von Humboldt Association of America, 1996-98;
President, Alexander von Humboldt Association of America, 2001 - 2003
President, German Scholars Organization, 2003 -
AWARDS and FELLOWSHIPS
International Fellow, Institute for the Study of Defects in Solids, SUNY Albany, 1978-79;
Prince Distinguished Lecturer, Arizona State University, Tempe 1983;
IBM Faculty Development Award, 1984;
Visiting Professor, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan 1990;
Outstanding Performance Award, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, 1994;
Visiting Fellow, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia 1994;
Humboldt Senior US Scientist Award, 1994;
Visiting Professor, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan 2000;
Fellow, American Physical Society (APS), 2001.
Department of Nuclear Engineering
4165 Etcheverry Hall, MC 1730
Univeristy of California at Berkeley
Brian Wirth is an Assistant Professor in the Nuclear Engineering Department at the University of California, Berkeley. Professor Wirth received a BS in nuclear engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1992 and a PhD in mechanical engineering from the University of California, Santa Barbara in 1998, where he was a Department of Energy Nuclear Engineering Graduate Fellow. In 2002 he joined the faculty at Berkeley following several years in the high performance computational materials science group at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. His research interests include computational multiscale modeling and experiments to develop improved understanding and models of microstructure - property relationships and microstructural evolution during processing and service in hostile environments, with an emphasis on irradiation effects on materials. Professor Wirth’s research is supported by the DOE Office of Fusion Energy Sciences, Office of Nuclear Energy, Science and Technology, the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, and the National Science Foundation. He has received a number of awards, including the 2003 Early Career Scientists and Engineer Award from the Department of Energy, National Nuclear Security Administration Office of Defense Programs, the 2003 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) and an National Science Foundation Career Award.
EDUCATION
University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA.
PhD in Mechanical Engineering, Degree awarded: 12/1998
PhD Thesis Title: On The Character of Nano-scale Features in Reactor Pressure Vessel Steels Under Neutron Irradiation, Advisor: Professor G. Robert Odette
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA.
BS in Nuclear Engineering with Highest Honors, Degree awarded: 6/1992
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
7/2002 - present Assistant Professor, Department of Nuclear Engineering, University of California, Berkeley
2/2002 - 12/2002 Director, Chemistry and Materials Science Directorate Post-Doctoral Program, Chemistry and Materials Science Directorate, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
11/1998 - 12/2002 Staff member (indefinite career and flexible term appointment), Computational Materials Science Group, Materials Science and Technology Division, Chemistry and Materials Science Directorate, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
SELECTED HONORS AND AWARDS
• Career Award, National Science Foundation, 6/1/2006 – 5/31/2011
• Literary Award, American Nuclear Society, Materials Science and Technology Division, 11/2004
• 2003 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), 9/2004
• 2003 Early Career Scientists and Engineer Award, Department of Energy, National Nuclear Security Administration Office of Defense Programs, 9/2004
• Graduate Student Gold Medal Award, Materials Research Society, 12/1998
• Graduate Scholarship Award, American Nuclear Society, 9/1996 – 6/1997
• Nuclear Engineering and Health Physics Fellow, U.S. Department of Energy, 9/1992 – 8/1996
• Outstanding Scholastic Achievement Award, Nuclear Engineering and Health Physics Program, The Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering, 6/1992
Full publication list available for download at:
http://iron.nuc.berkeley.edu/~bdwirth/Public/WRG/BW_CV.html
SYNERGISTIC ACTIVITIES
Chairing of Technical Meetings and Workshop Programs
• Co-organizer, TMS Symposium on Microstructural Processes in Irradiated Materials, 2-6 March 2003, San Diego, CA.
• Co-organizer, Symposium on Experimental Validation of Multiscale Models, 2nd International Conference on Multiscale Materials Modeling, 11-15 October 2004, UCLA.
• Co-organizer, TMS Symposium on Microstructural Processes in Irradiated Materials, 13-17 February 2005, San Francisco, CA
Editorial Board and Guest Editing of Journals
• Editorial Board, Overseas Member, Japan Institute of Metals.
• Guest editor of Philosopical Magazine, Vol. 85, Nos. 4-7 (2005) 399. Served as co-guest-editor, along with C. Becquart, R. Schaueblin and L. Snead, which published the proceedings of the 2003 TMS Symposium on Microstructural Processes in Irradiated Materials.
• Guest editor of Journal of Nuclear Materials Volume (in progess), which will publish the proceedings of the 2005 TMS Symposium on Microstructural Processes in Irradiated Materials, along with C. Becquart, H. Matsui and L. Snead.
Martin Berlin Professor of Mechanical Engineering
5133 Etcheverry Hall
University of Birmingham, England Industrial Metallurgy B.Sc. 1968
University of Birmingham, England Industrial Metallurgy Ph.D. 1971
APPOINTMENTS
Professor of Mechanical Engineering, School of Engineering, University of California at Berkeley CA 94720, (1991 onwards).
Professor of Computer Science, and Director of the Robotics and Manufacturing Research Laboratory, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York Univ. (1987-1991).
Professor of Mechanical Engineering and The Robotics Institute, Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, (1979-1987).
Res. Associate in Physics, Cavendish Lab., University of Cambridge, England (1978).
Senior Lecturer, Dept. of Mech. Eng., the Univ. of Auckland, New Zealand, (1975-1978)
Consulting Engineer, Dept. of Sci. and Ind. Res., Auckland, New Zealand, (1972-1975)
PUBLICATIONS
S. Roundy, and P.K. Wright, “A Piezoelectric Vibration based Generator for Wireless Electronics,” Smart Materials and Structures, Volume 13, 2004, pp. 1131-1142.
S. Roundy, P.K. Wright, and J. Rabaey, “A Study of Low Level Vibrations as a Power Source for Wireless Sensor Nodes”, Computer Communications, 2003, Volume 26 (11) 2003, pp. 1131-1144.
S. Roundy, B. Otis, Y-H. Chee, J.M. Rabaey, and P.K. Wright, 2003. “A 1.9GHz RF Transmit Beacon using Environmentally Scavenged Energy,” 2003, ISPLED 2003, Seoul Korea, August 25 - 27, 2003. Winner of a Best Paper Award
R. K. Lee, M. G. Montero, and P.K. Wright, “Design Methodology for the Thermal Packaging of Hybrid Electronic-Mechanical Products A Case Study on the Berkeley Emulation Engine (BEE),” 2003, American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Design Engineering Technical Conference (DETC) on Design Automation, September 2-6 Chicago, Illinois. Paper Number DETC2003/DAC-48790 on CD.
P. K. Wright, D.A. Dornfeld, M.G. Montero and C.H. Sequin, "Management and Analysis of Design Constraints for Electronic-Mechanical Product Manufacturing," Transactions of the North American Manufacturing Research Institution, May 2002, Volume 30, pp.703-710
D.L. Odell and P.K. Wright, “Concurrent Product Design: A Case Study on the Pico Radio Test Bed,” 2002 ASME DETC, September 2002.
OTHER SIGNIFICANT PUBLICATIONS
S. Roundy, P.K. Wright and J. Rabaey, “Energy Scavenging for Wireless Sensor Networks with Special Focus on Vibrations”, Kluwer Academic Publishers, published in 2004, 1- 212 pages, ISBN Number 1-4020-7663-0.
P.K. Wright, 21st Century Manufacturing, Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, NJ. August 2000, 1-510 pages. ISBN Number 0-13-095601-5
E.M. Trent and P.K.Wright, Metal Cutting, 4th Edition, Butterworth Heinemann, Newton MA. January 2000, 1- 446 pages. ISBN Number 0-7506-7069-XD.
P.K. Wright and D.A. Bourne, Manufacturing Intelligence, Addison-Wesley, Reading, MA. July 1988, 1-352 pages. ISBN Number 0-201-13576-0
C. S. Smith and P.K. Wright, “CyberCut: A World Wide Web Based Design to Fabrication Tool,” Journal of Manufacturing Systems, 1996, 15, (6), pp. 432-442.
SYNERGISTIC ACTIVITIES
1) In 1986, NSF/DMII funded my research group, then at Carnegie Mellon University, subsequently at the Courant Institute at New York University and now at UC, Berkeley. The key strategy was to adopt advanced techniques from the general computer industry and create a “Machine tool Open System Advanced Intelligent Controller for Precision Machining (MOSAIC-PM). Numerous industrial companies including Allen-Bradley, Delta Tau and Aerotech have now launched open Architecture Controllers. 2) Following that work, I also expanded into the CAD front-end and rapid prototyping. At Berkeley, my collaborator Carlo Sequin and I launched the CyberCut project in 1995. We showed that it was possible to create a web-based CAD system that was specifically tailored to the MOSAIC machine tool. Users “out there on the Internet” could send us simple designs that were machinable and returned to them. Other synergies include: 3) the Manufacturing Analysis Service software for guiding students in manufacturing process selection, 4) new software called WebCAD for Internet-based CAD/CAM, 5) new laboratories created at CMU, NYU and Berkeley, and 6) many panel reviews at NSF, 7) In the last year, we have designed and prototyped energy-scavenging, pico-radio systems for the Berkeley Wireless Research Center (BWRC), small “mote” platforms and the Personal Server device for Intel, fire-rescue products for the Chicago Fire Department, in-tire sensors for Pirelli, and (in newer work) Demand-Response thermostats, nodes and meters for the California Energy Commission. All these projects are under the CITRIS umbrella.
COLLABORATORS IN LAST 48 MONTHS: Colleagues at Berkeley with whom I have joint grants: D.A. Dornfeld, S. Sastry, C. Sequin, P. Sheng, J. Rabaey, E. Arens, D. Culler, K. Pister, R. Cole: Colleagues elsewhere with whom I have had joint grants/papers in the last 5 years: S. Finger and R. Reddy (CMU); J. Shah (ASU) K. Perlin and J. T. Schwartz (NYU); M. R. Cutkosky and F.B. Prinz (Stanford); S.E. Sarma (MIT); R.E. DeVor (UIUC)
GRADUATE AND POSTDOCTORAL ADVISOR:TO:
S. Roundy (2003) at The Australian National University; R. DeSouza (2003) at Michigan Technical University; R. Hillaire (2001) at Sandia Labs; C.S. Smith, (2000), teaching at Berkeley; J.A. Stori, (1998), Professor of Mechanical Engineering at UIUC; G. Sun (2001), at Synopsis; V. Sundararajan (2001) at Berkeley; F-C. Wang (1997), at Autodesk; Sanjay Sarma (1996), Professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT; Steven Schofield (1996), Software Engineer for Open Architecture Controllers at HP. In the last 5-7 years I have graduated 8 Ph.D.s and 18 MS students
Professor
Mechanical Engineering-Fluid Mechanics and Ocean Engineering Group
6135 Etcheveryy Hall
Education
University of California, Berkeley: Ph.D. in Engineering Dec 1973
University of California, Berkeley: M.S. (Naval Architecture) June 1970
University of California, Berkeley: B.S. (Mechanical Engineering) June 1968
Positions Held
Distinguished Professor, Univ. of Calif. at Berkeley (URL: http://me.berkeley.edu/faculty/yeung) 1996 - present
Professor of Hydromechanics & Ocean Engineering, University of Calif. at Berkeley 1982 - present
Principal, Ronald W. Yeung - Consulting Naval Architect & Ocean Engineer 1974 - Present
Alexander v. Humboldt Professor, Mercator University of Duisburg, Germany Sept 1998 - Jan 1999
Chair, Naval Arch. & Offshore Engineering, University of California at Berkeley 1989 - 1997
Visiting Professor, Research Institute of Applied Mechanics, Kyushu University, Japan April 1998
Humboldt Professor, Institut fu¨ r Schiffbau, University of Hamburg, W. Germany 1988 - Jan 1989
Associate Professor of Naval Architecture (with tenure), Mass. Inst. of Tech., MA 1980 - 1982
Fulbright-Hayes Senior Scholar, University of Adelaide, Australia Jan-May, 1981
Assistant / Associate Professor of Naval Architecture, Mass. Inst. of Tech., MA 1974 -78 / 1978-80
Research Associate, Dept. of Ocean Engineering, Mass. Inst. of Tech., MA 1973 - 1974
Instructor, University of California Los Angeles Extension, Los Angeles, CA 1971 - 1971
Naval Architect, Litton Ship Systems, Culver City, CA 1970 - 1971
Awards & Honors
Kenneth Davidson Medallist - 2004 - for Outstanding Scientific Accomplishments in Marine Research, Society
of Naval Architects & Marine Engineers (SNAME)
Georg Weinblum Memorial Lecturer 2002-03, Naval Studies Board of US National Academy of Sciences,
SNAME (of USA), University of Hamburg, and Schiffbautechnische Gesellschaft (of Germany).
U.S. Distinguished Scientist Award, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Germany, 1988 & 1998.
Fulbright-Hayes Senior Scholar, University of Adelaide, South Australia, 1981.
Best Paper Award, JV Wehausen Symposium on Ocean Engineering, 2002, with Dr. J. A. Hamilton, American
Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), Offshore Mechanics & Arctic Engineering Div., Oslo, Norway.
Best Paper Award for Originality and Significance, 1991, with Dr. C.-F. Wu, American Society of Mechanical
Engineers (ASME), Offshore Mechanics & Arctic Engineering Division, Stavanger, Norway.
Supervisor of the following students who had won national (US) Graduate Paper Honor Prizes of SNAME for
their research papers: G. Poupard & J. Toilliez (2004), Yiannis Constantinides (2002), S-W. Liao & D.
Roddier (1999), Anthony Fotsch (1998), Andrew Hamilton (1995), Craig Jimenez (1988).
Supervisor of internnational Best Graduate Student Project Award of the American Society of Mechanical
Engineers, Ocean Engineering Division: Xing Yu (1993), Shih-Wei Liao & Dominique Roddier (1998).
Listee in Who's Who in America, Who's Who in Science & Engineering, American Men & Women of Science,
Who's Who in Technology, Who's Who Among Asian Americans.
University Gold Medallist, Class of 1968, University of California, Berkeley.
Professional Activities
Expert in analytical and numerical modeling of ships and floating systems in ocean and coastal environment.
Topics of engineering & research interest include but not restricted to: hydromechanics, numerical fluid
mechanics, mathematical modeling, surface-wave phenomena, vortical flows, two-layer fluid, Very Large
Floating Systems (VLFS), multi-hull configuration optimizations.
Research has been sponsored by the National Science Foundation, Sea Grant of NOAA, Office of Naval
Research, and ship-design and ocean-energy industry
Fellow of SNAME, Member of: Amer. Society of Engineering Education, International Society of Offshore &Polar Engineering, Society of Naval Architects of Japan, Tau Beta Pi, Pi Tau Sigma, Phi Beta Kappa.
Member of Analytical Ship-Wave Panel, Scholarship Committee, Education Committee of SNAME, Academic
Liaison & Executive Committee (1996-2003) of Northern California Section of SNAME.
Editorial board: Journal of Ship Research (1975-1995), International Journal for Computers and Fluids (since
1983), Journal of Engineering Mathematics (since 1986).
Teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in naval architecture, ocean engineering, marine hydrodynamics,
fluid mechanics, and numerical methods.
Reviewer for: J. Fluid Mech., J. Ship Res., Appl. Ocean Res., J. Engrg. Math, Int'l J. of Computers & Fluids,
J. Comput. Physics, ASME J. - OMAE, Int'l J. of Offshore & Polar Engrg., Wave Motion, Int'l J. Numer.
Meth. in Fluids, AIAA J. of Aircrafts, J. of Marine Sciences & Technology, National Science Foundation.
Expert witness on multi-body interaction hydrodynamics.
University of California at Berkeley. Tel ( 510) 642-8347
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Prof. R. W. Yeung has more than 100 publications. He has supervised 17 Ph.D. graduates and more than 50
Master of Science and Master of Engineering theses. Details are available upon request.
Research Highlights and Contributions
• The first accurate predictions of the sinkage and trim of a realistic ship hull.
• Original development of the simple-source (Rankine source) BEM for free-surface flow solution.
• Maneuvering hydrodynamics model of surface-effects Ship (SES) and air-cushion vehicles.
• Theory of slender ships interacting in shallow water.
• Theory of ship and obstacles/coastline interaction.
• Finite-depth effects on added mass and damping of vertical cylinders.
• Hydrodynamics of high-speed slender ships - new asymptotic theory.
• Tank-wall interference effects on floating-body hydrodynamics.
• Discovery of phenomena of unsteady, oscillatory bow waves.
• Nonlinear bow flows, vorticity, and free-surface interaction.
• Numerical methods for highly separated flows about oscillating bodies.
• Spectral solution of three-dimensional wave-structure interaction in a viscous fluid.
• Effects of vorticity on oscillating bodies near water surface.
• Viscous damping of sharp-edged bodies.
• Steady wave systems in two-layer fluids.
• Unsteady wave-body interaction in two-layer fluids.
• Structural drag and deformation caused by a moving load on floating plates.
• Fluid dynamics of finned bodies.
• Shell-function computational methodology for inviscid and viscous-fluid flow
• Multi-hull and multi-body interaction hydroydnamics - wave drag and motion.
Selected Publications
"Viscosity Effects on the Radiation Hydrodynamics of Horizontal Cylinders", with C-F. Wu, ASME Journal of
Offshore Mechanics & Arctic Engineering, vol 113, pp. 334-343, 1991.
"Flow Past Oscillating Cylinders", with M. Vaidhyanathan, ASME Journal of Offshore Mechanics and Arctic
Engineering, v. 115, no. 4, pp. 197-205, 1993.
"Nonlinear Interaction of a Vortex Pair with Clean and Surfactant-covered Free Surfaces", with P.
Ananthakrishnan, Wave Motion, vol. 19, pp. 343-365, 1994.
"Highly Separated Flows Near a Free Surface", with M. Vaidhyanathan, Proceedings, International Conference on
Hydrodynamics, Wuxi, China, October, 1994.
"Interaction of Transient Waves with a Circular Surface-Piercing Body", with X. Yu, ASME Journal of Fluids
Engineering, vol. 11, no. 99, pp. 382-388, 1995.
"Shell-Function Solutions for Three-Dimensional Nonlinear Body-Motion Problems", with J. A. Hamilton,