Juan A. Colón Santana is an Associate Professor of Physics at the Department of Physical Sciences, Aurora University. He completed his B.S. in Physics at the University of Puerto Rico at Humacao and his Ph.D. in Applied Physics at the University of Nebraska. His research interests include condensed matter physics, material science, physics education, and electronics.
Yaroslav Burak is a Senior Researcher and the Head of the Department of the Institute of Physical Optics of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine, Vlokh Institute of Physical Optics. He graduated from the Faculty of Physic and Mathematics of Ivan Franko Lviv State University. Since 1953, he has been working in institutions of the Ukrainian National Academy of Sciences, where he earned his degrees in mechanics of continuum deformable systems. He was an Engineer of the SKB of the Kinescope Factory in 1964–1968. Then, he was a Senior Engineer at Lviv Ivan Franko University in 1968–1977. After that, he worked at the Lviv Institute of Materials in 1977–1991 as a Senior Researcher. His research interests include growing and studying the physical properties of oxide monocrystals, in particular, the family of anhydrous borates.
ADAMIV Volodymyr Teodorovych is a Senior Researcher at the Institute of Physical Optics of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine; the Head of the Department of Material Science, Vlokh Institute of Physical Optics; and the Head of the Crystal Growth Sector of the Institute of Physical Optics of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine. He was the Leading Engineer of the Lviv Research Institute of Materials in 1978–1992. His research interests include the synthesis, cultivation, and study of the physical properties of oxide monocrystals, in particular, the family of anhydrous borates.
Wai-Ning Mei received his B.Sc. in physics from The Chinese University of Hong Kong in 1972 and his Ph.D. in physics from The State University of New York at Buffalo in 1979. He is currently a Professor at the Department of Physics, University of Nebraska at Omaha; and an Adjunct Professor at the Department of Physics, University of Nebraska–Lincoln. His research interests include surface structure determination; multiple-scattering analysis of the low-energy electron diffraction and photoemission spectra; neutron scattering from flux lattice in the type-ii superconductors; lattice dynamics of long-chain polymers; first-principle total-energy electronic structure calculations of the half-metal, transition, and rare-earth metal surfaces; nanostructural designed materials; high-dielectric constant; ferroelectric and multiferroic materials; rotation and vibration spectra of the adsorbed molecules; molecular dynamics studies of alkali halides, metal oxides, and molecular solids; applying variational method to the anharmonic, weakly, tightly bounded; and double-well potentials.
Douglas McGregor received his B.A. (1985) and M.S. (1989) degrees, both in electrical engineering, from Texas A&M University. He then received his M.S. (1992) and Ph.D. (1993) degrees, both in nuclear engineering, from the University of Michigan. From 1994 to 1996, he held a post-doctoral position at Sandia National Laboratory and then returned to the University of Michigan, where he was an assistant research professor from 1997 to 2002. In 2002, he came to K-State as an associate professor and was promoted to professor in 2008. In 2015, he was awarded the rank of University Distinguished Professor, and he holds the Boyd D. Brainard Chair in Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering. He has also received the College of Engineering Frankenhoff Outstanding Research Award (2006), the CoE Engineering Distinguished Researcher Award (2016), and the Professorial Performance Award (2019). His research is focused on the design, development, and deployment of novel radiation detectors and detector systems. In particular, he develops systems for measuring various ionizing and non-ionizing radiations based on semiconductors, scintillators, and gas-filled detectors. He specializes in semiconductor device physics, detector physics, semiconductor device designs, and the fabrication of various semiconductor devices.
Peter A. Dowben is a Charles Bessey Professor of Physics at the University of Nebraska (UNL). From 1984 to 1990, he was Assistant Professor of Physics at Syracuse University and was promoted to Associate Professor in 1990. He moved to the University of Nebraska in 1993 and was promoted to Professor of Physics in 1995, Research Professor of Chemistry in 1994, and a Charles Bessey Professor in 2002. He performed his post-doctoral research as a scientific staff member at the Fritz Haber Institute in Berlin, Germany. He received his Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Cambridge. He is also a Fellow of the American Physical Society, a Fellow of the Institute of Physics, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, and a Fellow of the American Vacuum Society, as well as a twice recipient of UNL’s Engineering and Technology Multidisciplinary Research Award. He has 680 publications with 18230 citations and an h-index of 58 (Scopus, 11 November 2023).
Carolina C. Ilie is a Professor of Physics at the State University of New York—Oswego and a Sigma Xi Fellow. She has a Ph.D. in Physics and Astronomy from the University of Nebraska at Lincoln, a Master's Degree in Physics from Ohio State University, and a Master's Degree in Semiconductor Physics from the University of Bucharest, Romania. She is the recipient of the President’s Award for Teaching Excellence (2016) and of Provost’s Award for Mentoring in Scholarly and Creative Activity (2013). She is focused on condensed matter: inorganic perovskite photovoltaics, molecule adsorption on polymers, and magnetic materials.
James Petrosky is the President of the National Institute for Deterrence Studies (NIDS). He holds a Ph.D. and M.S. from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Engineering Physics, where he developed experimental techniques for the prediction of damage to electronic devices and materials. He has substantial technical expertise in pulsed radiation effects and nuclear weapon survivability, with an emphasis on radiation effects on electronics and electromagnetic pulses. Previously, he served at the Air Force Institute of Technology (AFIT), where he achieved the academic rank of Professor of Nuclear Engineering. At AFIT, he sustained an ABET-accredited Nuclear Engineering program, serving the unique military and civilian advanced education requirements for the DoD. His research included multiple efforts for advanced electronics and materials survivability spanning nuclear weapon diagnostics, debris analysis, electronic and material response, and nuclear effects. He has published in 103 public and 18 government-classified peer-reviewed journals. He retired from the U.S. Army in 2004 as a Lieutenant Colonel after serving as an Engineer Officer and Nuclear Research Officer.
Born on 30/07/1995, in New Delhi, India, I graduated with a bachelor’s degree in Engineering Physics from Delhi Technological University in 2017. In May 2022, I was awarded my PhD in Physics and Astronomy from the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, under the supervision of Prof. Peter A. Dowben. Currently, I am working as a postdoctoral researcher with Prof. Juan Francisco Sanchez Royo and Dr. Alejandro Molina Sanchez at the Institut de Ciència dels Materials de la Universitat de València (ICMUV). My research interests include the experimental characterization of the electronic structure of two-dimensional van der Waals materials and strongly correlated oxides, using various photoemission-based spectroscopy techniques. In particular, I am focused on understanding the physical and electronic properties of low-dimensional materials and their heterostructures for possible applications in spintronics and nano-optoelectronic devices.
