Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) is a United States Department of Energy national laboratory located in Upton,Long Island,and was formally established in 1947 at the site of Camp Upton,a former U.S. Army base and Japanese internment camp. Its name stems from its location within the Town of Brookhaven,approximately 60 miles east of New York City. It is managed by Stony Brook University and Battelle Memorial Institute.
The National High Magnetic Field Laboratory (MagLab) is a facility at Florida State University,the University of Florida,and Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico,that performs magnetic field research in physics,biology,bioengineering,chemistry,geochemistry,biochemistry. It is the only such facility in the US,and is among twelve high magnetic facilities worldwide. The lab is supported by the National Science Foundation and the state of Florida,and works in collaboration with private industry.
John Michael David Coey,known as Michael Coey,is a Belfast-born experimental physicist working in the fields of magnetism and spintronics. He got a BA in Physics at Jesus College,Cambridge (1966),and a PhD from University of Manitoba (1971) for a thesis on "Mössbauer Effect of 57Fe in Magnetic Oxides" with advisor Allan H. Morrish. Trinity College Dublin (TCD),where he has been in the physics department since 1978,awarded him ScD (1987) and the University of Grenoble awarded him Dip. d'Habilitation (1986) and an honorary doctorate (1994). He served as Erasmus Smith's Professor of Natural and Experimental Philosophy at TCD from 2007 to 2012.
Joanna Sigfred Fowler is a scientist emeritus at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory in New York. She served as professor of psychiatry at Mount Sinai School of Medicine and director of Brookhaven's Radiotracer Chemistry,Instrumentation and Biological Imaging Program. Fowler studied the effect of disease,drugs,and aging on the human brain and radiotracers in brain chemistry. She has received many awards for her pioneering work,including the National Medal of Science.
S. Shankar Sastry is the Founding Chancellor of the Plaksha University,Mohali and a former Dean of Engineering at University of California,Berkeley.
Constance J. Chang-Hasnain is chairperson and founder of Berxel Photonics Co. Ltd. and Whinnery Professor Emerita of the University of California,Berkeley. She was President of Optica in 2021.
Andrea Alù is an Italian American scientist and engineer,currently Einstein Professor of Physics at The City University of New York Graduate Center. He is known for his contributions to the fields of optics,photonics,plasmonics,and acoustics,most notably in the context of metamaterials and metasurfaces. He has co-authored over 650 journal papers and 35 book chapters,and he holds 11 U.S. patents.
Dmitri E. Kharzeev is an American theoretical physicist most notable for his work on the chiral magnetic effect.
Mingyan Liu is an electrical engineering and computer science professor,and the Peter and Evelyn Fuss Chair of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Michigan,Ann Arbor,MI. Her research is in optimal resource allocation,sequential decision theory,incentive design,online learning,and modeling and mining of large scale Internet measurement data concerning cyber security. She was a co-founder of the cybersecurity scoring startup Quadmetrics in 2014. Quadmetrics was named a "2016 Cool Vendor in Risk Management" by Gartner,and was acquired by FICO in 2016.
Kim R. Dunbar is an American inorganic chemist and Distinguished Professor of Chemistry at Texas A&M University. Her research concerns inorganic and coordination chemistry,including molecular magnetism,metals in medicine,supramolecular chemistry Involving anions and anion-pi interactions,and multifunctional materials with organic radicals.
Xin Zhang is a Distinguished Professor of Engineering at Boston University (BU).
Anna Christina Balazs is an American materials scientist and engineer. She currently is Distinguished Professor at the University of Pittsburgh and holds the John A. Swanson Chair at the Swanson School of Engineering.
Azita Emami-Neyestanak is the Andrew and Peggy Cherng Professor of Electrical Engineering and Medical Engineering at Caltech. Emami works on low-power mixed-mode circuits in scalable technologies. She is Executive Officer of the Department of Electrical Engineering and an investigator in the Heritage Medical Research Institute.
Gordana Dukovic is a physical chemist. She is currently a professor in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Colorado Boulder.
Christine E. Schmidt is an American biomedical engineer. As a professor at the University of Florida,Schmidt was inducted into the Florida Inventors Hall of Fame for her creation of the Avance Nerve Graft which has "improved the lives of numerous patients suffering from peripheral nerve damage."
Danijela Branislav Cabric is an American electrical engineer. She is an associate professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the University of California,Los Angeles. During the COVID-19 pandemic,Cabric was elected a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) for her "contributions to theory and practice of spectrum sensing and cognitive radio systems."
Huili Grace Xing is the William L. Quackenbush Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering,and Materials Science and Engineering in the Cornell University College of Engineering. In 2019,Xing was elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) "for pioneering contributions in polar wide-bandgap semiconductors,2D crystal semiconductors and layered crystals," as well as Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2021.
Milica Stojanovic is an American-Serbian engineer. She is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Northeastern University. Stojanovic's work focuses on wireless information transmission through challenging environments and in particular on underwater acoustic communications.
Robert Edward Hughes was an American professor of physical chemistry at Cornell University,director of the Materials Science Center at Cornell,a U.S. Senate-confirmed assistant director of the National Science Foundation,and longtime president of Associated Universities that operated Brookhaven National Laboratories for the U.S. Department of Energy,and the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) and the Very Large Array telescope in New Mexico,and the 100 meter radio telescope in Greenbank,West Virginia.
Xiuling Li is an distinguished electrical and computer engineering professor in the field of nanostructured semiconductor devices. She is currently the Temple Foundation Endowed Professorship No. 3 in Electrical and Computer Engineering and Fellow of the Dow Professor in Chemistry at the University of Texas at Austin. Previously,she was a Donald Biggar Willet Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering and Interim Director of the Nick Holonyak Jr. Micro and Nanotechnology Laboratory at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
