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