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Lia Addadi

Born in Italy, Lia Addadi obtained her B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in Organic Chemistry at the Università degli Studi di Padova, and a Ph.D. in Structural Chemistry from the Weizmann Institute of Science in 1979. Her postdoctoral studies were carried out at Harvard University. In 1982, Prof. Addadi returned to the Weizmann Institute, joining the staff of the Department of Structural Chemistry (now the Department of Structural Biology). She was appointed Associate Professor in 1988, Full Professor in 1993.

A recipient of numerous prizes and honors, she was awarded the Prelog Medal in Stereochemistry in 1998 by the ETH of Zurich, and is the 2006 recipient of the Kolthoff prize of the Technion-Israel Instute of Technology.

Prof Addadi pursues a broad range of research interests that relate to crystals. She studies mineralization in biological systems, with a particular interest in crystallizations that have either a physiological function or a pathological outcome in a wide variety of organisms, including humans. Her work incorporates research that has a bearing on osteoporosis, atherosclerosis, amyloid formation and some types of arthritis. Her research on biomineralization, undertaken in conjunction with departmental colleague Prof. Steve Weiner, elucidates the strategies evolved by nature to produce composite materials, which may lead to inspiration for new mechanical, optical or electronic devices.

Prof. Addadi also collaborates with Prof. Benny Geiger (Molecular Cell Biology) in researching recognition in cell adhesion, and in studies of the mechanism of bone resorption (dissolution) by specialized cells called osteoclasts.

Alex A.Chernov

Dr. A.A.Chernov is a staff scientist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. He is a Professor and Member of the USSR/Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS), was the first recipient of the IOCG Frank Prize, and the winner of numerous other prizes of the RAS and USSR. His major scientific interests are in all areas of crystallization and surface science, with an emphasis during last two decades on solution growth, protein crystallization and biomineralization. His cumulative citation index is ~ 5300. His appointments have included: until 1996, the Institute of Crystallography, USSR/Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS); since 1992, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST); 1996-2006 NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Materials Research; 2006-present, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Chemistry, Materials, and Life Sciences Directorate.

Robert F. Davis

Robert F. Davis is John and Clare Bertucci Distinguished Professor of Materials Science and Engineering. He received his Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, a Fellow of the American Ceramic Society and a member of the Materials Research Society and TMS. He has won numerous awards including the ALCOA Distinguished Research Award, the ALCOA Award for Research Performance in a Given Year, the Alumni Research Award, the ORNL Excellence in Publications Award, the Richard M. Fulrath Memorial Award from the American Ceramic Society and the R.J.R Reynolds Award as well as the Alexander Holladay Medal for Excellence in Teaching, Research and Outreach. He also received the National Collegiate Inventor of the Year award for 1999. He has been a guest lecturer of the Troisiéme Cycle de la Physique en Suisse Romande. His research interests include (i) growth and characterization of SiC, ZnO, GaN, AlN and nitride alloy thin films, (ii) the growth and characterization of gas and bio sensors, and (iii) the deposition and characterization of metallic films on non-metallic substrates. He has edited or co-edited seven books, authored or co-authored more than 270 chapters in edited proceedings or in books, published more than 380 peer reviewed papers in archival Journals and given more than 165 invited presentations.

Jeffrey J. Derby

Jeffrey J. Derby is currently Professor and Executive Officer of the Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science at the University of Minnesota. He received a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Caltech, 1981, an M.S. in Chemical Engineering Practice from MIT, 1982, and a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from MIT, 1986. Prior to his appointment to the faculty at Minnesota, he spent two years with the Physics Department at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. His research program centers on the theoretical analysis of materials processing systems, especially crystal growth processes. This work has concentrated on the modeling of bulk crystals from the melt and solution phase, with recent emphasis on modeling step growth dynamics. He has received the NSF PYI Award, the ACCG Young Author Award, and the Research Award of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. He is a member of the Executive Committees of the National and Western Sections of the American Association of Crystal Growth and is a Councilor to the International Organisation of Crystal Growth. He has served as an Associate Editor of the Journal of Crystal Growth since 1997 and will serve as the Program Co-chair for the International Conference on Crystal Growth in 2007.

Jim De Yoreo

Jim De Yoreo is Deputy Director of the Laboratory Science and Technology Office at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. He received his Ph.D. in Experimental Physics from Cornell University in 1985. Following post-doctoral work at The University of Maine and Princeton University, he became a member of the LLNL technical staff in 1989. Dr. De Yoreo’s research has spanned a wide range of materials-related disciplines. Prior to joining LLNL he investigated the phonon physics of orientationally disordered solids, the thermal evolution of metamorphic belts, and the thermophysical properties of silicates melts. At LLNL he worked to develop a technology for rapid growth of meter-scale non-linear optical crystals and understand the relationships between growth processes, defects, and optical properties. He pioneered the use of force microscopy for in situ investigations of solution-based crystal growth and now applies this method to understanding biomolecular controls over mineralization, the directed organization of macromolecules at nanoscale chemical templates, and the kinetics of macromolecular aggregation and crystallization. Dr. De Yoreo is a member of the Materials Research Society (MRS), the American Physical Society (APS), the American Association for Crystal Growth (AACG) and the Society for Research On Calculous Kinetics (ROCK). He serves on the Executive Committee of the AACG and is Vice-president of AACG-West. He has been appointed to the National Academy of Sciences Committee on Nanotechnology for the Intelligence Community, Congressman Honda’s Blue Ribbon Panel on Nanotechnology, and chairs the MRS Subcommittee on Nanoscale Informal Science Education. Dr. De Yoreo is a member of the Editorial Board for the Journal of Crystal Growth, has authored, co-authored, or edited over 130 papers, books, and patents, and is the recipient of an R&D 100 award (1994) and the LLNL Science and Technology Award (2001).

Patricia M. Dove

Patricia M. Dove is Professor of Geochemistry at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. After completing a Ph.D. at Princeton University in 1991, she received a NSF Postdoctoral Fellowship to study at Stanford University. She was a member of the Georgia Tech faculty for seven years before relocating to Virginia Tech in 2000 with her husband and two children. Working at the intersection of earth science, chemistry and biology, research in Dove’s group is focused on understanding the kinetics and thermodynamics of processes at the mineral-water interface and addressing questions related to the scientific, medical, and engineering disciplines. Most projects are directed toward a mechanistic understanding of amorphous and crystalline forms of the silica and carbonate polymorphs— major classes of inorganic and biogenic earth materials whose reactivity influences atmospheric and ocean chemistry. A particular strength of the Dove research group is the ability to couple direct, nanoscale observations of mineral dissolution, growth, and nucleation with quantitative measurements of rates and surface thermodynamic properties. Over the past 12 years, Dove has been the principle investigator on research grants from multiple divisions of the NSF and DOE. Publications by Dove and her students are found in high profile journals including Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, and Nature. She is the lead editor of Biomineralization, a widely cited volume in the MSA’s Reviews in Mineralogy and Geochemistry series, noted for its focus on biomineralization processes. Dove is the recipient of an Undergraduate Teaching Excellence Award, the F.W. Clarke Medal, the Gast Award from the Geochemical Society, and is a two-time winner of the DOE Best University Research Award.

Jim Evans

Jim Evans is a Senior Scientist at the USDOE Ames Laboratory and Professor of Mathematics, Iowa State University. He is a fellow of the American Physical Society. His research interests include atomistic and multiscale modeling of non-equilibrium processes at surfaces, and general statistical mechanical studies of behavior in far-from-equilibrium systems. Studies of surface processes cover several areas: (i) morphological evolution during epitaxial thin film growth; (ii) post-deposition relaxation of nanostructures in epitaxial thin films (cluster diffusion, nanoscale sintering); (iii) film growth and relaxation in complex systems (e.g., metal films on quasicrystals and semiconductors where strain and quantum size effects impact behavior); (iv) etching and oxidation of stepped Si(100) semiconductor surfaces; (v) spatiotemporal pattern formation in basic catalytic reactions on extended single-crystal surfaces such as CO-oxidation or NO-reduction; (vi) fluctuation effects in nanoscale catalytic surface reaction systems.http://www.external.ameslab.gov/pbchem/PI%20info/evans.htm

Giulia Galli

Giulia Galli is Professor of Chemistry at the University of California, Davis, and Associate Faculty at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, where she was the head of the Quantum Simulations Group from 2000 to 2005. She received a Ph.D. in Physics from the International School of Advanced Studies in Trieste, Italy in 1986. She is a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) and the chair of the Division of Computational Physics of the APS for the year 2006. In 2000, she received an award of excellence from the Department of Energy for "Technical Excellence in Advanced Simulations". In 2004 she was the recipient of the Lawrence Livermore Science and Technology Award. Her current research activity is focused on quantum simulations of systems and processes relevant to condensed matter physics, physical chemistry, materials and nano-science. (http://angstrom.ucdavis.edu/)

Margret Giesen

Born in the beautiful city of Aachen close to the border of Belgium , Netherlands and France, Margret is still living in Aachen with husband and two lively daughters, Anne and Eva. She studied Physics at the University Aachen and received her Diploma in 1992 followed by the PhD in 1995. Her diploma and doctoral thesis she performed with Prof. Harald Ibach at the Forschungszentrum Juelich. As is common in Germany she did her Habilitation in 2001 with Prof. Andreas Otto at the Heinrich-Heine Universität Düsseldorf in Experimental Physics. Since 1994 she belongs to the permanent scientific staff at the Institute for Bio- and Nanosystems (formerly known as Institute for Vaccum and Interface Physics and as Institute for Thin Layers and Interfaces) of the Forschungszentrum Juelich, interrupted by several research activities at other institutions: 1996 she was as a Humboldt student at the University of Maryland, College Park, USA (Prof. Dr. T. L. Einstein, Prof. Dr. E. D. Williams), in 1997 as a Humboldt student at the Arizona State University, Tempe, USA (Prof. Dr. E. Bauer, Prof. Dr. J. Spence) and in 1998/1999 she spent a couple of months as a guest researcher at the Abteilung für Elektrochemie at the Universität Ulm (Prof. Dr. D. M. Kolb). Her research activities are currently focused on "Atomic transport processes at metal interfaces" and "Structure and dynamics of biologiscal systems". More information on her scientific activities can be obtained from her group's web page http://www.fz-juelich.de/isg/index.php?index=225.

Koichi Kakimoto

Koichi Kakimoto is Professor of the Institute of Applied Mechanics of Kyushu University. He received his PhD in Engineering in 1955 from the Graduate school of Electronic Engineering, University of Tokyo. Previous positions included Researcher of NEC Fundamental Research Laboratories (1985), Visiting Researcher of Universite Catholique des Louvain in Belgium (1989), Visiting Professor of Institute of Materials Research (KINKEN) of Tohoku University (1995), Associate Professor of Kyushu University (1996). Prof. Kakimoto’s research focuses on the effects of external fields on melt flow and crystallization. Awards have included the 1989 Paper award of the Japanese Association for Crystal Growth, and the 2006 Best paper award of Journal of Physical Society of Japan.

Thomas F. Kuech

Thomas F. Kuech received his B. S. (1976) in Physics from Marquette University in Milwaukee as well as a M. S. in Materials Science (1977). He received both a M. S. (1977) and Ph.D. (1981) in Applied Physics from the California Institute of Technology. He was a Research Staff Member at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center from 1981 to 1990. While at IBM, he was the manager of III-V Epitaxial Growth group. He has been a member of the faculty of the Chemical and Biological Engineering Department at the University of Wisconsin in Madison since 1990 where he is presently the Shoemaker Professor of Chemical Engineering. His research involves on the study of the chemical and physical processes underlying the synthesis of semiconductor materials and structures. A particular focus has been the formation of semiconducting structures from the gas phase chemical reactions. The relationship of the physics and chemistry of growth to the attainment of novel materials, structures, or device enhancements has been a main direction of this work. He has authored over 350 papers in the field and is the Principal Editor of the Journal of Crystal Growth.

Meir Lahav

Meir Lahav graduated from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and Ph.D with G.M.J.Schmidt at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot. After a post-doctoral study at Harvard Universiy with P.D.Bartlett he returned to the Weizmann Institute where he became full professor in 1982. He was the first head of the department of "Materials and Interfaces" and the first director of the G.M.J.Schmidt Minerva center for Supramolecular Architectures. His major scientific interests are in the fields of solid-state chemistry, crystal growth, nucleation and dissolution of organic materials, stereochemistry, chirality and chemistry at interfaces. He is a member of Leopoldina, the European Academy for Natural Sciences. His scientific work has been recognized by several awards: He shares with his colleague L.Leiserowitz the V.Prelog Gold Medal from the E.T.H in Zurich and the G.Aminoff Medal of the Swedish Academy of Science, for their joint work on "Tailor-Made Auxiliaries" for Crystallization." Last year he was awarded the Chirality Medal 2006.

Xiang-Yang Liu

Dr. Xiang-Yang Liu is Professor of Physics at the National University of Singapore. He received his Ph.D. in 1993. His expertise and research interests cover a wide range of topics from biophysics, nanoscience and technology, crystallization, surface science, and colloids to liquid crystals. He has authored or co-authored more than 110 papers and invited book chapters. Prof. Liu is Councilor of the International Organization for Crystal Growth; Co-executive secretary of the Executive Committee of the Asian Society for Crystal Growth and Crystal Technology; Managing editor of BIOPHYSICS REVIEWS AND LETTERS; and Editor-in-Chief of INNOVATION. http://www.physics.nus.edu.sg/~interface

Georg Müller

Georg Müller is Professor in Materials Science at the University Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany and head of the Erlangen Crystal Growth Laboratory (CGL) which consist of 2 departments at the Erlangen University (Institute of Materials Science) and Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Systems and Device Technology (IISB). He has 30 years of professional experience in research on topics in melt growth of semiconductor and optical crystals by the Czochralski and Gradient Freeze techniques. Parallel to the experimental research activities he was engaged in the development of user friendly modeling software for the development and optimization of crystal growth equipment and processes. Georg Müller was honoured for his contributions to the field of crystal growth with a doctor honoris causa (Univ. Timisoara) and several awards; In 2001 he received the Laudise Prize of the Int. Association of Crystal Growth "for his outstanding contributions to the development of methodical and technological aspects of crystal growth and for his leading contribution to the development of global computer modeling of crystal growth processes."Georg Müller was already lecturing at previous Int. Summer Schools of Crystal Growth, (ISSCG-10, 11, 12); furthermore, he was co-chairman of the previous ISSCG-12 which was held 2004 in Berlin.

Arthur J. Nozik

Dr. Arthur J. Nozik is a Senior Research Fellow at the U.S. DOE National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and Professor Adjoint in the Chemistry Department at the University of Colorado, Boulder. He received his BChE from Cornell University in 1959 and his PhD in Physical Chemistry from Yale University in 1967. Before joining NREL in 1978, then known as the Solar Energy Research Institute (SERI), he conducted research at the Allied Chemical Corporation and American Cyanamid Corporation. Dr. Nozik's research interests include size quantization effects in semiconductor quantum dots and quantum wells and the applications of these nanostructures to solar photon conversion; photogenerated carrier relaxation dynamics in various semiconductor structures; photoelectrochemistry of semiconductor-molecule interfaces; photoelectrochemical energy conversion; photocatalysis; optical, magnetic and electrical properties of solids; and Mössbauer spectroscopy. He has published over 175 papers and book chapters in these fields, written or edited 5 books, holds 11 U.S. patents, and has delivered over 225 invited talks at universities, conferences, and symposia. He has served on numerous scientific review and advisory panels, chaired and organized many international and national conferences, workshops, and symposia, and received several awards in solar energy research, including the Research Award of the Electrochemical Society. Dr. Nozik has been a Senior Editor of The Journal of Physical Chemistry from 1993 to 2005. A Special Festschrift Issue of The Journal of Physical Chemistry honoring Dr. Nozik’s scientific career appears in the December 21, 2006 issue. Dr. Nozik is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science; he is also a member of the American Chemical Society, the Electrochemical Society, and the Materials Research Society.

Christine A. Orme

Christine A. Orme is a physicist within the Chemistry Materials and Life Science directorate of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. She studied physics at the University of Michigan, receiving her Ph.D. in 1995 in the area of surface evolution during vapor deposition. In 1996 she joined Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory where she has served as a project leader, group leader and institute director. Orme’s lab explores molecular processes at interfaces and uses in situ tools to address how these modify the way that materials assemble and disassemble. She is particularly interested in biomineralization, biomimetic approaches to material assembly, corrosion, and - underlying all of these - the fundamental physics of growth and dissolution. She currently studies metal-organic interactions to understanding how ligands direct shape control during synthesis. She is a member of the Institute for Complex Adaptive Matter and has been a volume organizer for the Materials Research Society. She is the recipient of a Science and Technology Award from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (2001), an Office of Science Early Career Scientist and Engineer Award (2002), and a Presidential Early Career Award in Science and Engineering (2002) for her work in biomineralization.

Steve Parker

Professor Steve Parker has been developing and applying atomistic simulation techniques to oxides and minerals for over 25 years. For the last 20 years he has been based in Bath, UK and has published over 200 papers in the area. The initial focus of his work was developing the techniques to predict the bulk crystal properties of silicates and for example, rationalised the effects that stabilised specific chain silicates and provided the initial predictions that certain zeolite-structured silicates would contract on heating. The work on surfaces, growth and morphology began with modelling ceramics, particularly at high temperature. However, much of the focus has now shifted to modelling the effect of the solvent, particularly water, which has a highly complex relationship with the surface that is in contact with it. s.c.parker@bath.ac.uk

Klaus H. Ploog

Klaus H. Ploog has been the director of the Paul Drude Institute (PDI) in Berlin since 1992 and since 1993 he had a joint faculty position as full professor at the Physics Department of the Humboldt University Berlin. The Paul Drude Institute is a government funded institution with more than 70 employees doing basic and applied research on nanostructured semiconductors for application in advanced devices. Before that he worked for 17 years at the Max Planck-Institute in Stuttgart, where he pioneered the molecular beam epitaxy of artificially layered III-V semiconductors which exhibit unique quantum size effects. More than five years ago, the PDI has established a facility at the synchrotron BESSY to study the dynamics of III-V semiconductor surfaces and interfaces during molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) by X-ray diffraction. These studies have given new insights in the coarsening behavior (Oswald ripening) of III-V surfaces and in the dynamics of heteroepitaxy of highly mismatched materials.

Frances Ross

Frances Ross works in the Research Division at the IBM T. J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, New York. Her research interest is the study of surface and interface reactions using dynamic electron microscopy. She is currently studying chemical vapour deposition of nanowires and quantum dots and electrochemical deposition of copper, carrying out these processes during observation in a transmission electron microscope. Frances received her Ph.D. in materials science from Cambridge University in 1989. She then joined A.T.&T. Bell Laboratories in 1990 as a postdoctoral member of the technical staff. From 1992 to 1997 she worked as a staff scientist at the National Center for Electron Microscopy, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. In 1997 she joined IBM as a research staff member and in 2000 became manager of the Nanoscale Materials Analysis department. In 1999 Frances received the UK Institute of Physics Charles Vernon Boys Medal, in 2000 the Materials Research Society Outstanding Young Investigator Award, and in 2003 the Burton Medal from the Microscopy Society of America.

Peter Rudolph

Peter Rudolph, Professor Dr. Habil, Dr. Ing. was born at July 1st, 1945 in Gera (Germany). Since 1994 he is employed at the Institute of Crystal Growth in Berlin, dealing with growth and characterisation of III-V compounds (GaAs, InP) by modified Czochralski method and VGF and heading of the competence field Technology Development. He received the Diploma of Electronic Technology at the Technical University of Lvov (Ukraina) in 1969. The PhD (Dr. Engineer) of Solid State Physics and Technology (on crystallisation of CdSb layers) he obtainted at the same university in 1972. From 1973 to 1993 he was employed at the Institute of Crystallography and Material Science of the Humboldt University in Berlin as lecturer of Kinetics of Phase Transitions, Crystal Growth and Technical Crystallography. In 1979 he obtained the DSc (Dr. habil) of Crystallography at the Humboldt University and in 1985 the University professor position. From 1980 to 1993 he led the Laboratory of Crystal Growth of IV-VI (PbTe) and II-VI materials (CdTe, HgCdTe) and co-chaired industrial growth of LiNbO3 and PbMoO3. In 1978 and 1992 space crystal growth experiments on Bi-Sb, PbTe and CdTe were carried out. From 1991 to 1993 he was member of the expert group of the ESA on melt growth experiments. From 1993 to 1994 and in 1998 he was employed as Guest Professor at the Crystal Growth Laboratory of Prof. T. Fukuda of the Tohoku University in Sendai (Japan). During these periods he held lectures on Fundamentals of Crystal Growth and dealed with the Bridgman growth of CdTe, ZnSe, InP and oxide fiber crystals. He co-laborated with numerous Japanese Companies.At the Institute of Crystal Growth in Berlin he is dealing with the vapour pressure controlled Cochralski growth (VCz) without boric oxide encapsulation, growth in travelling magnetic fields, and defect analysis, especially, dislocation patterning. During several guest residences he held lectures on Crystal Growth at the Ulan Bator University (1980), Complutense University of Madrid (1987), University of Monastir in Tunesia (1996), Hebrew University of Jerusalem (1996), ETH Lausanne in Switzerland (1997), Autonoma Univ. Madrid/Spain (2005), Universidad Autonoma Nacional of Mexico City (2005), Univ. of Riga (2006). He acted as lecturer of several International Schools on Crystal Growth of the IUCr and IOCG in Madras/India (1995), Rimini/Italy (1998), Beatenberg/Switzerland (1998 and 2005), Campinas/Brazil (1999), Zao/Japan (2000), Trieste/Italy (2001), Madrid/Spain (2002), Mysore/India (2003), La Pedrera/Uruguay (2003) and Puebla/Mexico (2005). Since 1996 he is member of the IUCr Commission on Crystal Growth and Characterization of Materials. He acts as associate editor of J. of Crystal Growth and member of advisory bords of J. Crystal Research Technology and Korean Journal of Crystal Growth. In 2001 he was awarded by the innovation prize of Berlin-Brandenburg. He was the organizer and co-chair of the Int. Summer School on Crystal Growth of the IOCG (ISSCG-12) in August 2004 in Berlin.

The publication work of P. Rudolph comprises 1 book on shaped crystal growth, 18 monograph contributions, 5 book editions, over 150 original publications and 21 patent descriptions.

Peter G. Schunemann

Peter G. Schunemann has been an active contributor in the crystal growth and development of new nonlinear optical materials for the last 20 years, authoring or co-authoring over 100 publications in the field. He received B.S. and M.S. degrees in Materials Science and Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1984 and 1987 respectively. He joined BAE Systems in 1987, where he has served as principal investigator on a series of crystal growth development programs to produce improved nonlinear optical crystals for mid-infrared laser applications. His work on ZnGeP2 in particular, a critical component for the next generation laser-based infrared countermeasure (IRCM) systems, earned him the Jack L. Bowers Award in 1994 the Nova Award in 1995 (Lockheed Martin’s highest honor for technical excellence). He is a member of the Optical Society of America, the Materials Research Society, and the American Association of Crystal Growth, and has served on Program Committees for several international scientific conferences including CLEO, ASSL, ACCGE, ICCG, ISSCG, and Photonics West. (He can easily be located at any of these conferences by listening for his loud, characteristic laugh.) Peter lives in Hollis, New Hampshire with his wife (Mary Ann) and four children (David, 15, Amy, 13, Stephen, 10, and Joseph, 7).

Robert F. Sekerka

Robert F. Sekerka received his bachelor’s degree in Physics (summa cum laude) from the University of Pittsburgh in 1960 and his AM (1961) and PhD (1965) degrees from Harvard University, where he was a Woodrow Wilson Fellow. iHHis doctoral work was concerned with the theory of magnetic resonance and was directed by Nobel Laureate J.H. van Vleck. From 1965-68 he worked as a Senior Scientist in the Department of Theoretical Physics, Westinghouse Research Laboratories, and from 1968-69 he managed their Department of Materials Growth and Properties. In August 1969, he joined the faculty of Carnegie Mellon as Associate Professor of Metallurgy and Materials Science, was promoted to Professor in 1972, and served as Department Head from 1976-82. In 1982 he became Dean of the Mellon College of Science, which at that time consisted of the departments of Biological Sciences, Chemistry, Computer Science, Mathematics and Physics, and served until 1991. In 1991 he was appointed University Professor of Physics and Mathematics and continues in that capacity today, with a courtesy appointment in Materials Science and Engineering. He is a fellow of the American Society for Metals, the American Physical Society and the Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science. Awards include the Phillip M. McKenna Award, the Frank Prize of the International Organization for Crystal Growth (IOCG) and the Bruce Chalmers Award of TMS. Most of his research is interdisciplinary and is concerned with theoretical problems in materials science that lead to challenging problems in physics and mathematics. Examples are the thermodynamics of stressed solids, transport phenomena, surfaces and interfaces, phase transformations, the precise definition of chemical potentials in stressed solids, the fundamental basis of the Onsager reciprocal relations in multi-component diffusion and heat flow, the influence of anisotropic surface tension on crystal shape, the theory of morphological stability (with his long-standing colleague William Mullins), phase field theory, and Lattice Boltzmann modeling of fluid dynamical phenomena. He is a consultant to NIST and currently serves as President of IOCG. Please see http://sekerkaweb.phys.cmu.edu and http://www.iocg.org for further information and publications.

Marek Skowronski

Marek Skowronski is a Professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. His current research interests are in crystal growth of wide bandgap semiconductors and complex oxide thin films, characterization and control of extended and point defects in crystals, and reliability of electronic devices. He is the author or co-author of over 180 journal and conference papers, book chapters, etc. Before joining Carnegie Mellon University in 1988, Dr. Skowronski was a senior research associate at Cabot Corp. and a visiting scientist at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. At this time, he worked on growth and characterization of GaAs crystals. Prof. Skowronski holds a Ph. D. degree in solid state physics from Warsaw University, Warsaw, Poland.

Gerald Stringfellow

Dr. Gerald Stringfellow is Distinguished Professor of the College of Engineering, University of Utah. He received his Ph.D in Materials Science from Stanford University in 1967. His previous positions have included Dean, College of Engineering, University of Utah (1998-2003); Prof., Materials Science & Engineering, University of Utah (1980-1996); Prof., Electrical Engineering (1980-1996) and Chairman(1982-85, 1994-98); Adj. Prof., Physics, University of Utah (1986-present); Director, Microelectronics Center, University of Utah (1986-1990); Director, Center for Advanced Materials, University of Utah (1989-1998). Recent awards and honors have included the 2003 John Bardeen Award of TMS; Election to the National Academy of Engineering (2001); the Rosenblatt Prize, University of Utah (2004); Governor's Medal for Science and Technology (1997); Award and The American Association for Crystal Growth Award (1999). Prof. Stringfellow has served as the Principal Editor, Journal of Crystal Growth (1998-2003); Sr. American Editor, Journal of Crystal Growth (1993-present); (Assoc. Editor, Journal of Crystal Growth (1979-93) Prof. Stringfellow’s research interests center on the epitaxial crystal growth of III/V semiconductor materials. This involves the fundamental materials phenomena determining the properties and device applications of new semiconductor materials. He was among the pioneers of the organometallic vapor phase epitaxial (OMVPE) growth technique, beginning his work in this area in 1975. He was the first to postulate the utility of this technique for the growth of the AlGaInP alloys that are now finding wide usage in light emitting diodes, lasers, and integrated circuits. His work emphasizes the fundamental aspects of OMVPE growth. This technique is now the work horse technique used for the fabrication of nearly all light-emitting diodes, communication laser devices, and solar cells for space applications. His current work has centered on the use of surfactants to control the microstructure of semiconductor alloys grown by OMVPE and dopant incorporation into these materials. This work has resulted in approximately 380 papers and scores of invited papers at national and international conferences. He has also written or edited 12 books.

Anthony P. Tomsia

Tony Tomsia is a Senior Scientist at the Materials Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. Dr. Tomsia also holds a position as Adjunct Professor at the University of California, San Francisco. A native of Poland, he received M.S. from the University of Mining and Metallurgy, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the Institute of Materials Science, all in Krakow, Poland. He joined the Berkeley Lab in 1978 and assumed his present positions in 1988. Tomsia has published more than 150 papers in the fields of biomaterials, ceramic-metal joining and physics of solid-liquid interfaces. He is a Fellow of the American Ceramic Society. His numerous awards include a Humboldt Research Award for senior US Scientists and an International Union of Materials Research Society’s Award for International Collaboration. Tomsia was elected this year as one of 2006 Scientific American’s 50 (Technology Leaders).

Katsuo Tsukamoto

Katsuo Tsukamoto is Professor in the Earth and Planetary Science, Graduate School of Science, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan. He received his Ph.D on "In Situ" Observation of Crystal Growth from Solution from Professor I. Sunagawa, Tohoku University in 1983. He is the president of the Commission on Mineral Growth and Interface Process of International Mineralogical Association (IMA). His major work is always related to "in situ" observation of crystal growth. He is particularly interested in the growth surface of solution grown crystals not only at room temperatures but also at elevated temperatures as high as 1800K by developing new optical microscopy and interferometry. He has recently developed Laser Confocal Phase-Shift Interferometry (LCPSI), which reveals mono-molecular growth steps of protein crystals in situ with a precise step height in the order of nm. However he has been covering wide range of research fields from the origin of materials in the solar system to the kirality of amino-acids and biomineralization. He is also interested in a project of "Crystallization 4.6 billion years ago," which means the simulation of the first crystallization process in the early solar system by utilizing microgravity condition and by other levitation methods. He has successfully applied his "in situ" methods to this new field of crystal growth. He has also been interested in the defect generation of protein crystals in relation to the crystal growth mechanism, for which he will carry out "in situ" observation of crystal growth also in the international space station (ISS). He has published more than 100 original papers, 120 reviews and other papers on varieties of fields. He contributed small portions of 15 books. He received 5 honorable awards from The Japan Association of Crystal Growth, The Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers, etc.

Peter G. Vekilov

Peter G. Vekilov received his PhD in 1991 form the Russian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Crystallography, under advice from A.A. Chernov. After postdoctoral stints in Sofia, Bulgaria, Tsukuba, Japan, and Huntsville, Alabama, he was Assistant Professor of Chemistry at the University in Alabama in Huntsville. He is now Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, and of Chemistry at the University of Houston. He is the recipient of the UH Excellence in Research and Scholarship Award, DuPont Research Award, UAH Foundation Research and Creative Achievement Award, International Union of Crystallography Young Scientist Award, Research Awards by the International Human Frontiers Science Program and the Science and Technology Agency of Japan, and the Shubnikov Prize of the Russian Academy of Sciences, among others  He has served as Chair of the Gordon Conference on Thin Film and Crystal Growth Mechanisms, and as organizer of several MRS symposia and of numerous sessions at national and international meetings.  He is a member of the U.S. National Committee for Crystallography, of the Executive Committees of the American Association for Crystal Growth and of AACG-West.  He is Topic Editor of Crystal Growth and Design.  His main research interests are in the area of phase transitions in protein solutions. He has studied their thermodynamic aspects, including intermolecular interactions and phase diagrams and has demonstrated the existence of mesoscopic metastable phases. Nucleation kinetics and mechanisms have been a major focus of study, and a two-step mechanism, involving a metastable dense liquid precursor has been put forth. Molecular mechanisms of crystallization of protein and other materials form solution have been elucidated, highlighting the role of water structuring for the determination of the rate of the process. He has published ~ 90 peer-reviewed papers and ~20 invited chapters and reviews and given more than 140 invited, keynote, and plenary lectures, tutorials, and talks.  His results have been featured on the covers of Science, JMB and other publications, as well as on television and radio, and in the press.
 

Elias Vlieg

Elias Vlieg is professor in Solid State Chemistry at the Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands, where he studies the fundamentals of crystal growth. His current research topics include morphology prediction, polymorphism, protein crystal growth, chiral crystals and the structure at solid-liquid interfaces. He has used and developed X-ray diffraction at synchrotron radiations sources as a technique to determine the interface structure of crystals during growth.

Mu Wang

Mu Wang is Cheung-Kong Professor in Department of Physics, Nanjing University, China. He received his Ph. D. degree in 1991 in Nanjing University. Thereafter he did postdoctoral research in Nijmegen University, Netherlands between 1992-1994. He also had short working experience in the Institute of Organic Chemistry, Mainz University, Germany; Center of Microgravity and Materials Research, University of Alabama in Huntsville, U. S. A. and the Laboratory of Condensed Matter, Ecole Polytechnique, France. He has been working on pattern formations in interfacial growth since 1988, and his current major interests include self-organized growth in diffusion-limited systems; instability of concentration field in diffusion-limited growth and its effect on crystallization; electro-convection and noise in electro-crystallization systems; and self-assembly and pattern formation in lipid monolayers. Dr. Wang currently serves the director of the National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures, Nanjing University, China. He was elected as the fellow of Institute of Physics (FInstP). He is the member of standing committee of both the Chinese Physical Society and the Chinese Society of Crystallography. He is the member of the Advisory Board of Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter (UK), and the Editor of the European Physical Journal Applied Physics.