 | Duane Dimos Director, Materials Science Engineering Center, Sandia National Laboratories (USA) |
Dr. Dimos is Director of the Materials Science and Engineering Center at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, NM. The Center is a diverse organization of about 200 people doing research, development and application engineering in metallurgy, ceramic science, polymer science, characterization techniques, materials modeling and nanoscience. Dr. Dimos also leads the Strategic Education Initiative at Sandia, in which he is working to establish an innovation institute model as a new government-university-industry partnership approach to address critical needs in science and engineering education, innovation and competitiveness.
Dr. Dimos has been at Sandia since 1990 and has held several technical management positions. His primary research interests are in the areas of electronic ceramics, rapid fabrication methods, ceramic synthesis and processing techniques, and microsystem materials and packaging. He has published over 130 technical papers, edited four proceedings volumes and holds eleven patents. He received his B.A. in Physics from U.C. Berkeley, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Materials Science and Engineering from Cornell University. He also previously worked Air Products & Chemicals, Inc. and at the IBM Research Division at Yorktown Heights, NY. Dr. Dimos is a fellow of the American Ceramic Society and a past chair of the Basic Science Division of the American Ceramic Society. He serves on the editorial board of several technical journals, university external advisory panels and is a member of the Solid State Sciences Committee for the National Academies.
COMS2009 Plenary Lecture Title: Nanotechnologies for Advanced Microsystems
COMS2009 Invited Lecture Title: National Institute for Nano-engineering |