IEEE NUCLEAR AND PLASMA SCIENCES SOCIETY ELECTION

Election of Members to the Administrative Committee

NUCLEAR MEDICAL AND IMAGING SCIENCES (Vote for One)

For a Four-Year Term 1 January 2019 – 31 December 2022

ADAM ALESSIO (S’95-M’04-SM’12) Adam Alessio’s research focuses on tomographic image generation and

analysis for PET and CT systems. He received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Notre Dame

and has been at UW since 2003. He is the author of over 100 publications and has grant funding from the NIH and the

imaging industry to advance non-invasive cardiac and cancer imaging.

Details at http://faculty.washington.edu/aalessio/.

Statement: As a graduate student, post-doc, and faculty member, I have participated in the NSS/MIC meeting since

2002. I have had the fortune of serving in various roles including reviewer (2003-present), topic convener (2013-

present), and on the NMISC council (2011-2013). In addition, I was the treasurer for the 2012 NSS/MIC meeting and

chair of the 2015 MIC meeting. Likewise, I am involved in SNMMI and in planning local SNMMI meetings (served as chapter president

and chaired 4+ meetings). These roles have educated me on the challenges and opportunities for the NSS/MIC meeting and for our Nuclear

and Medical Imaging Sciences community. The challenges that I am particularly interested in helping NPSS address through AdCom

include the need for: 1) more diversity in our community, 2) increased relevance of the NSS/MIC meeting, and 3) greater value of NPSS to

our community. Clear opportunities that I plan to promote in this role include: improving conference organization through more shared

knowledge amongst organizers, collaboration with societies within IEEE, highlighting career paths of underrepresented members as role

models to others, and exploring rapid publication options for conference proceedings and e-prints. I would be honored to represent and

serve our community on the Administrative Committee (AdCom).

R. GLENN WELLS (M’97) is a medical physicist and associate professor in cardiac imaging at the University of

Ottawa Heart Institute. My PhD was on SPECT scatter correction (1997, University of British Columbia, Canada). I did

a post-doctoral fellowship at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center (Worcester, MA, USA) until 2000 when I

accepted a medical physics position in London, ON, Canada. I relocated to Ottawa in 2006. My current research is in

dynamic imaging with cardiac SPECT cameras. I have published 78 peer-reviewed papers, 6 book chapters and over

160 conference abstracts.

Statement: I have been an IEEE member for more than 20 years, a participant at the Nuclear Science Symposium and

Medical Imaging Conference since 1995, and a reviewer for the NSS-MIC conference program since 2001. I have reviewed

for the IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science since 2001 and more recently for Transactions on Radiation and Plasma Medical Sciences. I was

a member of the Nuclear Medical and Imaging Sciences Council (NMISC) from 2012-2014 and am serving again as a member from 2017-2019.

In 2014 and 2015, I chaired the NMISC Awards sub-committee and continue to serve on the awards committee of NMISC and MIC. I am

currently a member of the NMISC by-laws review committee. I also bring experience from the executive boards of other societies having served

as the Secretary/Treasurer for the Canadian College of Physicists in Medicine from 2010-2016 and as Secretary of the Society of Nuclear

Medicine and Molecular Imaging’s Computer and Instrumentation Council (2017-2019). The Administrative Committee (AdCom) of the NPSS

facilitates all activities of society including those of the NMISC. If elected, I would be honored to represent NMISC at AdCom and support

NMISC’s activities to continue providing outstanding educational and professional opportunities to our members.

PARTICLE ACCELERATOR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (Vote for One)

For a Four-Year Term 1 January 2019 – 31 December 2022

WOLFRAM FISCHER (M’11-SM’12) is a Senior Scientist and Accelerator Division Head at Brookhaven National

Laboratory, responsible for the operation and upgrades of the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider and its injectors. Wolfram received

his Ph.D. in 1995 from the University of Hamburg after which he joined Brookhaven National Laboratory. He served on

numerous national and international advisory committees, is a Senior Member of IEEE, an APS Fellow and a member of AAAS.

Statement: I am honored to be an IEEE NPSS AdCom candidate. IEEE has long history in supporting accelerator science and technology, and

in particular the (International) Particle Accelerator Conferences in North America. I was a member of the organizing and program committees

of several of these conferences, and I am looking forward to working with IEEE on the organization of future conferences.

ANNA GRASSELLINO (M’18) is a Scientist at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL) where she oversees the

Superconducting RF (SRF), Magnet and Cryogenic Sectors. Anna received her Ph. D. in Physics from The University of

Pennsylvania, in 2011. Her thesis work at TRIUMF involved SRF cavity performance studies. She is a recipient of the DOE Early

Career Grant, IEEE PAST Award, USPAS Prize, EPS-AG Frank Sacherer Prize, PECASE and several others.

Statement: I am honored to be an IEEE NPSS AdCom candidate. If I am elected to the NPSS AdCom, I look forward to the opportunity for

expanding my involvement in the Society and I hope to help NPSS stay a strong organization. I hope to encourage my students as well as other

graduate students to become engaged in NPSS. I would put a strong effort to broaden our outreach to encourage more young professionals to

participate in our areas of research and strengthen our future.

RADIATION EFFECTS (Vote for One)

For a Four-Year Term 1 January 2019 – 31 December 2022

KEITH AVERY (M’04) has been active in space and radiation effects for 23 years. He began as a contractor for the Air Force

Research Laboratory (AFRL) developing space experiments and radiation test experiments on advanced electronics. He currently

leads the development of radiation-hardened technology for space capabilities for the DoD. The previous 14 years he worked in

commercial industry designing electronic products across a broad spectrum of commercial and industrial markets.

Statement: My technical interests include radiation effects on electronics, methods for mitigating those effects and utilizing those electronics to

create new capabilities for warfighter. I have participated in the NSREC as Short Course Speaker, Finance Chair, Data Workshop Chair,

Exhibits Chair and Local Arrangements Chair. I have been a regular reviewer of papers for the Transactions on Nuclear Science. My experience

in industry and Government, along with technical knowledge and conference experience will allow me to be an effective NPSS AdCom

member.

I would be honored to serve on AdCom. My goals are to better understand the needs of all sections supported by NPSS, to develop initiatives

that support the radiation effects community as well others society sections, to continue to foster diversity, inclusiveness and equality across the

membership and to promote the growth of IEEE and NPSS.

JEFF GEORGE (M’15) has been active in radiation effects in microelectronics for over 15 years at The Aerospace Corporation.

His technical interests include single event effects and total ionizing dose testing, radiation vulnerability assessments for space

programs, monitoring US radiation effects test infrastructure, and helping to develop new instrumentation to measure the space

radiation environment. Prior to this position he analyzed the origin and composition of the galactic cosmic rays.

Statement: Authored/co-authored over 25 technical papers on radiation effects, including recent papers on the effect of nuclear reactions on

SEE effects in highly scaled devices. 2017 NSREC Radiation Effects Data Workshop chair, and worked with the NSREC Steering Group to

improve the publication process for the Data Workshop proceedings. Served as Finance chair and 2017 Technical Program chair for the SEE

Symposium workshop. This experience in testing advanced devices, conference participation, and support to government and industry partners

provides the background needed to be an effective NSREC representative to the NPSS AdCom.

AdCom policies affect future conferences. I am particularly concerned about getting younger people involved in NSREC, and will work with

AdCom to providing better incentives for this as well as creating better incentives for IEEE membership.

RADIATION INSTRUMENTATION (Vote for One)

For a Four-Year Term 1 January 2019 – 31 December 2022

SARA POZZI (AM’03-M’04-SM’16) is a Professor and the Graduate Program Chair in the Department of Nuclear

and Radiological Sciences at the University of Michigan. She is the Director of the Consortium for Verification

Technology and a Senior member of IEEE, where she held several roles, including co-chair for the Nuclear Science

Symposium and Distinguished Lecturer. She has graduated 17 Ph. D. students and is a Fellow of the American

Nuclear Society.

Statement: I am interested in serving the IEEE/NPSS Administrative Committee as an elected member. The NPSS is a

premier society that counts between 2500 and 3000 members. These individuals work at the forefront of research and

development, teaching, and outreach activities in the nuclear sciences, including radiation instrumentation development, medical imaging, and

plasma sciences. As a member of AdCom, I will work with the committee to help facilitate all activities of the society. The AdCom will ensure

that we facilitate the membership’s work in tackling the important technical challenges that we are addressing in the areas of nuclear and plasma

sciences and medical imaging. These challenges include understanding fundamental nuclear processes in nature, protecting our society from

nuclear and radiological events, and improving our ability to cure disease. These challenges require a coordinated, interdisciplinary approach.

As a member of AdCom, I will work with elected members across disciplines to ensure that our society remains at the forefront of these

activities.

I am especially excited to meaningfully include the new generation of students, postdoctoral fellows, and early career scientists in the

organization. They are the future of our field and I am fully committed to their development as scientists and engineers.

ANDRE SOPCZAK (M’07-SM’11) associate professor Institute of Experimental and Applied Physics (IEAP), Czech

Technical University, Prague. Studied mathematics/physics at Munich University, PhD UC-San Diego. Positions CERN,

DESY, Karlsruhe, Lancaster. Since 2012 Prague, head of ATLAS group. Research: radiation hardness of CCD detectors,

applications of Medipix detectors, accelerator R&D (collimators), new particle searches and Higgs boson physics.

Collaborations: L3, DELPHI, LCFI, D-zero and ATLAS. Several TNS publications.

Statement: I am strongly motivated to participate in the ADCOM of the Nuclear and Plasma Science Society, in particular

representing the instrumentation interests:

RITC member since 2016, president of Nuclear & Plasma Sciences (IEEE Czechoslovakia Section).

Being active in RITC, I would stand up to express and defend the specific RITC interests such as supporting conferences and

grants.

Ensuring that RITC is well represented in ADCOM and being part of the decision taking among the other NPSS groups.

Within ADCOM I propose to develop especially activities for developing countries, young professionals and students.

Studying and researching in both the US and Europe, I could contribute to solving questions regarding differences in conference

organization and funding specifics.

I propose more globalization in conference organizations historically organized in one country.

Supporting more RITC applications in NPSS regarding awards, IEEE Fellows, and Senior members.

Promoting student award schemes.

With the privilege and opportunity to bring my professionalism and dedication to foster the important goals of the IEEE, I would be

delighted to expand my IEEE engagement and serve as RITC representative in ADCOM to the benefit of all members of the IEEE

community.

MAXIM TITOV (AM’03-M’04-SM’11) Senior Scientist at CEA Saclay, France, received PhD in particle physics in

2001 and became Director of Research (HDR) in 2013. His research interests cover development of advanced

gaseous/silicon detectors and data analysis at DESY, FERMILAB, CERN collider experiments. He was Spokesperson

of the RD51 Collaboration at CERN (2007-2015). Nowadays, he is Member of CERN Council and involved into

science-policy preparation of ILC project in Japan.

Statement: Maxim Titov served as an elected RISC member (2007-2009, 2012-2014) and TNC Vice-Chair (2005-2012),

attending several ADCOM meetings. He was NSS Program Co-Chair in 2012 (Anaheim), 2008 (Dresden) and 2003

(Portland). Most recently, he served as a General Chair of the 2016 IEEE NSS/MIC/RTSD Symposium in Strasbourg,

France. From my first participation in the NSS/MIC meeting 20 years ago, IEEE NPSS has played a major role in my

research and career development. I would very much appreciate an opportunity to act as a liaison between RITC and NPSS and ensure strong

communication between two bodies. I will exert my best efforts to strengthen the global importance of the NPSS with a special attention towards

events outside of the USA, in particular in Europe and Asia. I’ll promote interdisciplinary communications between radiation instrumentation

and medical imaging fields, strongly support Society’s international outreach activities and professional development of young scientists and

encourage them more actively contribute into the NPSS life. I believe that my experience in international collaborations, organizational skills,

and interest to multidisciplinary research could be useful to the NPSS community, should I be elected to the ADCOM.

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PARTICLE ACCELERATOR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE ELECTION

Member-at-Large to the PAST ExCom For the Four-Year Term 1 January 2019 – 31 December 2022

(Vote for ONE)

PAOLO CRAIEVICH (M’11-SM’12) is the head of the group RF System 2 (RF linacs) at Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) in Switzerland

where he is involved in the management of the RF systems for the SwissFEL and Swiss Light Source linacs. He is also pursuing the

consolidation and extension of the high-gradient LINAC RF technology developed in the last years at PSI. His research interests include

microwave applications to accelerators, such as cavities and travelling wave deflecting and accelerating structures, rf photo and thermionic

guns, wakefield, instability and coupling impedance. During his career he was also a staff member at Sincrotrone-Trieste in Italy where he

served as S-band structures lead engineer in the FERMI@Elettra FEL project and as a member of the FERMI commissioning team. He has

also collaborated in research activities with the Department of Electrical Engineering at University of Trieste in Italy and has served as tutor

and supervisor of PhD and master degree students. He studied electronic engineering at the University of Trieste and received his PhD degree

in applied physics from University of Technology in Eindhoven, Netherlands. He is a senior member of the IEEE and was an associate guest

editor for the special issue of the IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science (TNS) that commemorate the 50th anniversary of the original

particle accelerator conference (PAC).

Statement: I have research experience in electromagnetics and technology applied to particle accelerators and, if elected, I would like

to serve our society as a member of the PAST Technical Committee, to encourage and promote the exchange of ideas and to spread

the knowledge in the applications of particle accelerator science, engineering and technology. I would like to also continue to expand

the European and student member base of NPSS and encourage our colleagues to publish on IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science. I

have personally benefitted from many contacts in NPSS PAST that have led to useful collaborations and joint effort. I will also strive

to convey the importance of PAST in building these personal bridges that have led to career growth. Finally, I have benefitted

immensely from attending and presenting at IEEE sponsored or IEEE co-sponsored conferences for many years and will work with

the PAST-TC to insure the quality and continuation of those conferences.

MICHAEL V. FAZIO (S’73-M’78-LM’18) is the SLAC Associate Laboratory Director for the Technology Innovation Directorate

comprising RF accelerator and source research, advanced instrumentation, and detection systems development from microwave through

gamma-ray wavelengths. He is responsible for innovating advanced technologies that enable discovery science and emerging applications

that range from medicine to communications and security. From 1978-2010 at Los Alamos he held research and leadership positions

including director of the ISR Division responsible for satellite-based nuclear explosion detection and treaty monitoring instrumentation,

planetary exploration and space science, proliferation detection, astrophysics, remote sensing, information science, and directed energy. He

served as program lead for Space Situational Awareness and National Security & Civilian Space Programs. Prior to 2005 he led the High

Power Electrodynamics Group conducting research and development on high power RF sources, FELs, advanced accelerators, and compact

pulsed power. Michael received Awards for Excellence for Counter-proliferation and a commendation from the NASA Administrator as a

Mars Curiosity ChemCam Instrument Development and Science Team member. Advisory committees have included the DOE, DoD,

DARPA, and the Air Force Scientific Advisory Board. He served as the Guest Editor for the 1994 IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science,

5th Special Issue on High Power Microwave Generation. He received his Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Rice University in 1979.

Statement: I have been an IEEE member most of my career beginning as a student. Through my experiences over many decades as a

scientist and leader of R&D organizations I have come to understand and appreciate the value and importance of diversity. I am also

aware that our field, and others, still have progress to make in achieving diversity of all types. Whether it is related to gender,

ethnicity, all the other characteristics, or diversity of thought, I believe that every organization will become better, stronger, and more

productive if diversity is an integral part of its fabric. If elected I will advocate for accelerator science and technology with special

emphasis on diversity to broaden our field's impact.

YOUNG PROFESSIONAL (Vote for One) For a Two-Year Term 1 January 2019 – 31 December 2020

JONATHAN EDELEN (GSM’11-M’16) earned his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in accelerator physics from Colorado State University where

he worked on beam dynamics in thermionic cathode RF guns and start-to-end simulation and beam-line optimization of a compact THz free

electron laser.

Upon graduation, Jonathan accepted the prestigious Bardeen Fellowship at Fermilab working with the Low-Level RF group as a theory and

simulation expert. In this position, he provided extensive support to the commissioning of the PXIE RFQ, performed simulations of how

LLRF control systems impact beam dynamics, and collaborated on efforts to apply machine learning for modeling and control of particle

accelerators. Additionally, while at Fermilab Jonathan served as co-chair of the Engineering Advisory Council responsible for advising the

directorate on engineering issues at Fermilab.

Currently, Jonathan is an Associate Research Scientist at RadiaSoft LLC in Boulder Colorado. Here he is involved in the implementation of

new algorithms for simulating free electron lasers and space-charge in rings. Additionally, Jonathan has collaborated on the use of machine

learning for virtual diagnostics at FAST in addition to continuing studies of thermionic cathode physics in collaboration with the APS and

AFRL.

Statement: I am excited at the prospect of being involved with the technical committee and I hope to provide a broad perspective to

the committee business. In the time that I have been engaged in the accelerator community I have enjoyed the benefits of publishing in

IEEE journals, and attending PAC conferences. These opportunities are crucial to the development of young professionals such as

myself, and I hope to continue to offer my support to these programs for years to come.

MARTINA MARTINELLO (M’18) is Peoples Fellow associate scientist in the Technical Division at Fermilab. She is working on

superconducting radio-frequency cavities for particle accelerators, and she is leading the Materials Analysis Group of the SRF Measurements

and Research Department which analyses, at the nanometric scale, the material properties of superconducting samples and cavity cut-outs.

She received both her bachelor and master degrees in Material Science from the University of Padua, in Italy, in 2011 and 2013, respectively.

She started to be interested in superconducting cavities already from her master thesis research, performed at the Legnaro National

Laboratories of the INFN, in Italy, in which she studied superconducting properties of niobium thin film sputtered on copper cavities. In 2014

she moved to US to pursue her PhD in Physics at the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago, that she received in 2016. Her PhD thesis

research was performed at Fermilab and focused on minimizing the surface resistance of niobium SRF cavities and preserving high Q-factors

in real cryomodule environment. She has been awarded with the IEEE – PAST Doctoral Student Award for her contributions to the physical

understanding of limiting factors in superconducting radio-frequency cavities.

Martina is also part of the Scientist Advisory Council (SAC) and of the Helen Edwards Summer Internship committee at Fermilab.

Statement: I am a new member of the IEEE-NPSS and, if elected, will be my first experience as technical member of this kind of

committee. I would be very glad to be part of it since I am very interested in activities related to the particle accelerator science and

technology field. I would be an active member, particularly interested in matter related to students, young professionals and women in

STEM.

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NUCLEAR MEDICAL AND IMAGING SCIENCES COUNCIL ELECTION

For the Three-Year Term 1 January 2019 – 31 December 2021

(Vote for UP to FIVE)

SHIVA ABBASZADEH (GSM’10-M’14) is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Nuclear, Plasma, and Radiological

Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She received her Ph.D. in 2014 from the University of Waterloo,

Canada, designing a high gain, high spatial resolution X-ray detector for mammography that is currently being pursued for

commercialization. Following her graduation, she was a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University developing a preclinical PET

scanner and served as a consultant on hardware design and system characterization of imaging systems for several startups. Her

current research focuses on radiation detection and instrumentation for molecular imaging, computational problem solving, and

quantitative characterization of biological processes. She authored and co-authored 22 peer-reviewed journal articles for her work on

medical imaging technology.

Statement: I have been an IEEE member since 2011 and I have regularly participated and presented my research in the IEEE Nuclear

Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference since 2012. As a student, NSS-MIC was a great opportunity to network with

other researchers and get feedback. I also met my mentor for my postdoctoral fellowship during NSS-MIC. I am an active reviewer for

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, IEEE Sensors, and more recently IEEE Transactions on Radiation and Plasma Medical

Sciences. I am very passionate to be part of the Nuclear Medical and Imaging Sciences Council (NMISC) to ensure the high quality of

educational and networking activities for students proposed during the annual NSS-MIC. I will use my expertise in medical imaging to

promote bridging technological advancements with clinical applications. As an active NMISC council member, I will be committed to

promoting nuclear medical and imaging sciences activities.

GEORGIOS ANGELIS (GSM’10-M’11) is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Faculty of Health Sciences, The University of

Sydney, Australia. He received his bachelor’s degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the National Technical University

of Athens, Greece in 2007. He then moved to the United Kingdom to complete an MRes in Bioimaging Sciences at Imperial College,

London a year later. He completed his Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering at the University of Manchester, UK in 2011 working in the

field of spatiotemporal (4D) Positron Emission Tomography image reconstruction and parameter estimation for applications in

neuroscience. Since 2012 he is a member of an internationally recognised group based at the University of Sydney’s Brain and Mind

Centre, which has pioneered the use of motion tracking and correction for quantitative imaging of conscious and freely moving

rodents. His work solved challenging technical problems, such as the accurate modelling of animal motion within the imaging system,

the complex photon attenuation field of a freely moving animal and the mathematical modelling of complex (and often non-steady

state) physiology in the brains of awake animals. By solving these problems, the Imaging Physics Group, at the Brain and Mind

Centre was able to offer the international neuroscience community a unique imaging technique that is capable of extracting

meaningful quantitative parameters describing brain function, such as receptor binding or endogenous neurotransmitter activation,

without perturbing the behaviour of the animal. Georgios Angelis is the author of 20 journal articles and more than 40 publications at

international conferences, such as the IEEE Medical Imaging Conference.

Statement: I have been a regular participant and active contributor of scientific papers at the IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and

Medical Imaging Conference since 2010. I have been privileged to enjoy the benefits of being a member of the IEEE and NPSS

societies, mainly through unique networking opportunities and multiple invaluable trainee awards to attend the most prestigious

conference for medical imaging, IEEE NSS-MIC. As such, if elected as a member I want to bring fresh enthusiasm and contribute to

all activities and facets of Nuclear Medical and Imaging Science Council (NMISC) and indirectly return a fraction of what I received

all these years from the society. I want to play an active role in ongoing improvements of educational and collaborative initiatives, as

well as professional development opportunities in the field of Nuclear Science and Engineering. I see the position of a member of the

NMISC committee as an excellent way to be part of a multidisciplinary team that will promote inter-disciplinary activities and

collaborations, not only as part of the NSS-MIC joint sessions, but also beyond them. Having a strong track record in learning and

research teaching, I will ensure the promotion and organization of educational refresher courses and workshops about the latest trends

in engineering and nuclear science, such as artificial intelligence and cloud computing. In addition, I will work towards creating

opportunities for students and early career post-docs to develop non-technical and leadership skills. This would be particularly

important for female students and professionals in order for the community to work efficiently towards bridging the gender gap in

engineering and create the role models for the younger generation of engineers.

NICOLA BELCARI (AM’14-M’14) is Associate Professor of Medical Physics at the Department of Physics “E. Fermi” of the

University of Pisa. He received the M.S. from University of Pisa in 1999, and the Ph.D. in Applied Physics in 2003. Since 2000, he

has conducted his research activity in the field of Medical Physics. His research interests include the development of new imaging

detectors for preclinical molecular imaging, hadrontherapy monitoring and brain PET/MR. He was responsible for the development of

the preclinical IRIS PET/CT system. He is leading the team for the design and construction of the SiPM-based PET component of the

TRIMAGE brain scanner. He is Principal Investigator of an Eranet-cofund EU project on innovative tine of flight PET detectors

(UTOFPET). He is author/co-author of about 100 papers on international journals and conference proceeding on nuclear physics and

medical physics, and he holds two patents. Prof. Belcari is past member of the Physics Committee of EANM where he served as

educational representative. He is associate researcher of INFN. He is Associate Editor of EJMP – Physica Medica.

Statement: I started my involvement in IEEE NPSS activities in 2003 as member of the Conference Information and Promotion

(CIP) table. I have collaborated to the organization of the 2004 Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference in

Rome. After that, I have participated bi- annually to NSS/MIC with a primary interest in the Medical Imaging Conference and related

workshops. At NSS/MIC 2011 in Valencia, I was responsible for the organization of the Short Course on Physics and Design of

Detectors for SPECT and PET. In last years, I have increased my involvement in IEEE NPSS activities acting as reviewer for IEEE

TNS and TRPMS and collaborating with the NSS/MIC conference program committee acting as a reviewer for the abstract selection.

This year, I have organized the PSMR2018 conference under the technical sponsorship of IEEE NPSS. Now, I am willing to further

contribute to the success of the IEEE NSS/MIC as member of the Nuclear Medical and Imaging Sciences Council (NMISC). If

elected, I will try to encourage the active participation of young scientists in the organization of the conference and in chairing

sessions and I will make my experience available for the organization of educational activities at the NSS/MIC conference.

Furthermore, gaining from my links with clinical societies, I will try to promote and strengthen the links between the Physics and the

Nuclear Medicine and Radiology communities that ultimately represent the stakeholders of our scientific activity.

JUNWEI DU (GSM’09-M’11-SM’15) is an associate specialist at the Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of

California at Davis, and a professor at Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He received his

bachelor’s degree in Applied Physics (2005) and his Ph.D. in Electronic Science and Technology (2010) from the University of

Science and Technology of China. In 2011, he started to work at University of California at Davis as a postdoctoral scientist (2011-

2015) and then an associate specialist (2015-present). From 07/2018, he will also work at Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced

Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences as a professor. His research is in the area of biomedical imaging with an emphasis on

developing simultaneous high- resolution and high- sensitivity positron emission tomography (PET), including electronics design and

detector module development. Junwei Du is the author of more than 20 journal articles.

Statement: As an IEEE member and research scientist, I have participated annually in the Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical

Imaging Conference since 2010. I have been a reviewer of the NSS-MIC conference since 2014, both for the NSS abstracts and the

MIC abstract. I am also a reviewer for the journal IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science and IEEE Transactions on Radiation and

Plasma Medical Sciences et al. Given the active participation and strong commitment that I have demonstrated over the past years at

MIC, I believe that I can make a unique and significant contribution to the Nuclear Medical and Imaging Sciences Council (NMISC).

If elected to the NMISC, I will try to engage scientists of all ages and sexes to participate in IEEE medical imaging activities,

especially scientists and students at China. I will also try to promote further scientific and educational activities, to ensure quality

NSS-MIC joint sessions. I would be happy to help manage and promote Nuclear Medical and Imaging Sciences activities as a NMISC

council member.

GEORGES EL FAKHRI (M’01-SM’13-F’16) is a Professor of Radiology at Harvard Medical School (HMS) and the founding

Director of the Endowed Gordon Center for Medical Imaging at Massachusetts General Hospital and HMS with over 130 members

and 18 Labs. He is also co-Director of the Division of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging. Dr El Fakhri is an internationally

recognized expert in quantitative molecular imaging (SPECT, PET-CT, and PET-MR) for in vivo assessment of patho-

physiology. He has authored or co-authored over 200 papers, 20 patents and over 250 invited talks and mentored over 90 students,

post-docs and faculty. He has been a chartered member of several NIH study sections pertaining to Medical Imaging and Radiotherapy

as well as DOD, DOE and other Foundations. He has received many awards and honors, including the Mark Tetalman Award from the

Society of Nuclear Medicine, the Dana Foundation Brain and Immuno-Imaging Award, and the Howard Hughes Medical

Institutes Training Innovation Award. He serves on several editorial boards including IEEE Transactions on Radiation and Plasma

Medical Sciences and Medical Physics. He was elected Fellow to the SNMMI, AAPM and IEEE for “contributions to biological

imaging”. He recently was awarded a National Biomedical Technology Research Center by NIBIB focused on PET and PET/MR.

Statement: I have continuously attended the IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference (NSS-MIC) for the

past 20 years and have been actively involved in NSS-MIC for the same duration as I believe it represents a fantastic opportunity for

researchers in our field to present their scientific work, receive a peer evaluation of their results and enjoy a community of fellowship

centered around exciting science. In particular, NSS-MIC has played a key role in launching the careers of many new investigators in

the field of nuclear medical imaging. If elected to the Nuclear Medical and Imaging Sciences Council (NMISC), I am particularly

interested in continuing efforts to attract new investigators to the field of nuclear medicine and molecular imaging physics, data

science and instrumentation from the pool of engineers in closely related fields such as nuclear / computer / biomedical / electrical /

mechanical engineering. The NPSS in general, and the NSS-MIC in particular, is an ideal setting to help new investigators grow at the

early stages of their careers and obtain precious advice and support from more experienced senior members regarding a range of issues

such as funding, employment, research opportunities, etc. I will focus on encouraging the exchange of ideas between the different

theoretical and applied subspecialties in order to yield more clinically useful applications. Throughout my career, I have been

fortunate to mentor incredibly talented scientists and help them fulfill their potential as successful investigators. I spend a lot of my

time mentoring and helping faculty make the difficult transition to independence, building their labs and thrive while achieving a

balance between work and personal life. I plan to put my experience in both science and management at work to help translating many

current theoretical and applied software and hardware developments into the clinical setting. I will also actively work on increasing

the recognition of accomplishments of our peers especially at the early and middle stages of their career. This will invigorate the NSS-

MIC attendance and NPSS membership while promoting other educational activities at a time where the widespread of multimodality

imaging (e.g., PET-MR, SPECT-MR, PET in radiation therapy) and data science requires re-training in several fields.

ANDREW L. GOERTZEN (M’07-SM’17) is an Associate Professor in the Department of Radiology at the University of Manitoba

and a clinical nuclear medicine physicist at Health Sciences Centre in Winnipeg, Canada. He received his Ph.D. in Biomedical Physics

from the University of California, Los Angeles in 2003, working in the area of instrumentation for multimodality small animal

PET/CT imaging. He then worked as a Visiting Fellow at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland and as a Post-

Doctoral Researcher at the McConnell Brain Imaging Centre at the Montreal Neurological Institute in Montréal, Québec before

moving to the University of Manitoba in 2006. Dr. Goertzen is a Fellow of the Canadian College of Physicists in Medicine with

certification in nuclear medicine. His research interests are the development of detectors and technologies for multimodality PET

imaging and their application to improve image quality in both clinical and preclinical PET imaging.

Statement: Since the year 2000 I have participated annually in the Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference,

contributing as an attendee, presenter, reviewer, and session chair. I have been active in the Nuclear Medical and Imaging Science

Council (NMISC), previously serving as an elected member for 2013-2015 and as Secretary and Chair of the Nominations Sub-

Committee from 2013-2016. I am currently one of two NMISC representatives on the Joint Oversight Committee that is responsible

for site selection for the NSS-MIC meeting. The NSS-MIC meeting provides an opportunity to become up to date in the latest research

related to instrumentation for medical imaging, meet with existing collaborators and form relationships with new colleagues. I have

made a consistent effort to bring my students to the NSS-MIC each year in order that they can see how their work fits into the larger

imaging community and so that they can meet the researchers whose papers guide the direction of their work. If elected to the NMISC,

I will continue to work to ensure the continued success of the NSS-MIC meeting and encourage and grow the long-term engagement

of today’s students in the NPSS and IEEE.

TIANYU MA (S’05-M’07) received the B.S., M.S., and Ph.D degrees in Engineering Physics from Tsinghua University, China in

1999, 2001 and 2004 respectively. He worked as a postdoctoral fellow in Tsinghua University from 2004 to 2006, and in University at

Buffalo, SUNY from 2006 to 2008. He is now a tenure-tracked associate professor in Tsinghua University. His research interest

includes design and simulations of nuclear medicine imaging systems, development of radiation detectors and composing image

reconstruction algorithms for PET and SPECT. With the joint appointment in the technology transfer partner, Beijing Novel Medical

Co. Ltd., he worked as the imaging chain department manager from 2011 to 2013, the PET project manager from 2012 to 2015, and

the R&D director from 2015 to 2017. He has led and is now leading several projects on PET, SPECT and prompt gamma imaging

system instrumentations that are jointly conducted between the university and the company. During his service in the company, he

established a 70- engineer research team and defined the R&D discipline and process. He has published 10 journal articles as the first

author or the corresponding author, and is the co-author of other 17 journal articles.

Statement: As an IEEE member, I have participated annually in the Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference

since 2003, starting as a PhD student, a postdoctoral fellow, an assistant professor and now as an associate professor. I have

contributed over 100 NSS/MIC presentations as the author or the co-author with the primary focus on the MIC. In recent 5 years, I and

my PhD students in my lab submitted over 10 NSS/MIC abstracts annually. I believe that I can make a unique and significant

contribution to the Nuclear Medical and Imaging Sciences Council (NMISC), especially by means of expanding the impact of the

NSS-MIC conference in Asian universities and research institutions. My working experience in industrial imaging system

instrumentation can also provide strengthened connection between academic and industrial attendance. I would be happy to help

manage and promote Nuclear Medical and Imaging Sciences activities as a NMISC council member.

CHARLES (CHUCK) MELCHER (M’93-SM’03-F’14) is the Director of the Scintillation Materials Research Center at the

University of Tennessee and has faculty appointments in Nuclear Engineering and in Materials Science and Engineering. He received

his bachelor’s degree in physics from Rice University and his masters and Ph.D. degrees in physics from Washington University in St.

Louis. Subsequently he was a post-doc at Caltech before joining Schlumberger-Doll Research where he invented the LSO scintillator.

He left Schlumberger in order to join CTI Molecular Imaging where he led a team that developed and commercialized LSO for

positron emission tomography. After Siemens Medical Solutions acquired CTI, he and his colleagues continued to work on LSO and

further developed it for time-of-flight PET. He received the NPSS Merit Award in 2004 and became a Fellow of the IEEE in 2014. He

continues to do research on new scintillation materials for both medical imaging and homeland security. He has authored or co-

authored ~160 journal articles with a total of ~5000 citations, and he holds 19 patents.

Statement: I am submitting my candidacy for election to the Nuclear Medical and Imaging Sciences Council (NMISC) because it is

my hope that I can use my previous experience in the Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society (NPSS) as well as my experience in both

industry and academia to contribute to the continued success of our conference and the associated journals. I have attended the NSS-

MIC almost every year since 1984, and I have been an abstract reviewer, topic convener, and session chair many times. I served as an

associate editor of the Transactions on Nuclear Science from 2004 to 2010. I was a member of the Constitution and Bylaws

Committee in 2005, and in 2006 I was elected to the NPSS Radiation Instrumentation Steering Committee and served as chair of that

committee and member of the AdCom from 2009 to 2011. In these capacities I became familiar with the workings of the IEEE NPSS

organization and the oversight responsibilities of the two steering committees (RISC and NMISC) with respect to the NSS-MIC

conference and the three journals (the Transactions on Nuclear Science, the Transactions on Medical Imaging, and the Transactions on

Radiation and Plasma Medical Sciences). Our society (the NPSS) is technically and financially strong, but we face challenges in the

rapidly evolving publishing business, and I think that we can do more to promote participation by underrepresented groups in our

conference and journals. It would be an honor for me to again serve our community by becoming a member of NMISC, and I ask for

your support.

SADEK A. NEHMEH (M’04) My name is Sadek A. Nehmeh and I am Associate Professor of Medical Physics in Radiology at Weill

Cornell Medical College, New York, NY. I received my bachelor’s degree in Physics from the American University of Beirut, Beirut,

Lebanon in 1993. I completed my Ph.D. in Nuclear Physics at Wayne State University, Detroit, MI in 2000. I then completed a

residency in medical physics and postdoctoral fellowship in PET imaging in 2003 at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

(MSKCC), New York, NY. In 2003, I joined the MSKCC faculties as Assistant Physicist within the Department of Medical Physics,

and then as Assistant Attending (Assistant Professor) in 2004, and later as Associate Attending Physicist (Assistant Professor) in 2009.

In 2015, I moved to the State of Qatar where I was the Head of PET Production and Research. In 2017, I moved to the USA where I

am currently the Chief of PET and Nuclear Physics at Weill Cornell Medical College. My current research interest focus on the

development of a novel detector prototype for PET imaging. I am also very active in clinical research in particular in the areas of

tumor response assessment, tumor hypoxia, and radiation-induced cardiac toxicity. I have successfully secured grant funding from the

National Institute of Health and the industry. I have more than 55 publications in the field of nuclear physics and PET imaging. I am

board certified by the American College of Radiology (ABR) and licensed in Medical Nuclear Physics by NY State. I am a member of

the ABR Oral Exam Committee. I am editor for the International Journal of Nuclear Medicine & Radioactive Substances (IJNMRS),

and active reviewer for the Journal of Nuclear Medicine and the Medical Physics Journal.

Statement: I am member of the IEEE and Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference. Given my active research

career, I believe that I can make a unique and significant contribution to the Nuclear Medical and Imaging Sciences Council (NMISC).

If elected to the NMISC, I will try to engage scientists of all ages and sexes to participate in IEEE medical imaging activities. I will try

to promote further scientific and educational activities, to ensure quality NSS-MIC joint sessions, and to help select dynamic plenary

speakers. I will also provide input to the editorial boards of TNS and TMI, encouraging them to speed up the review process wherever

possible.

GUILLEM PRATX (S’06-GSM’10-M’11) Guillem Pratx, PhD is an assistant professor of Radiation Oncology, division of Medical

Physics, at Stanford University. After training at Ecole Centrale Paris with a BS in Engineering, he moved on to Stanford University

to complete a PhD in Electrical Engineering, with a focus on PET reconstruction and small-field-of-view gamma cameras. After a

short postdoc in Radiation Oncology, he is now leading the Physical Oncology Lab, which focuses is on developing physical tools for

cancer research and cancer care. Using a blend of instrumentation, chemistry and computer algorithms, new methods have been

developed to interrogate the functional behavior of single cancer cells, track cell trafficking in vivo, and verify the delivery radiation

treatments. His lab is particularly interested in phenomena that combine ionizing and optical radiation for biomedical use. Prof. Pratx

received significant distinctions such as the Damon Runyon Innovator Award and the Young Investigator Award from the Society of

Nuclear Medicine—Computer and Instrumentation Council.

Statement: I attended my first NSS-MIC meeting in 2006 in San Diego. I have since participated and presented at the MIC

conference every other year or so. I have been an MIC abstract reviewer since 2011 and a member of the MIC conference program

committee, focusing on the Imaging in Radiotherapy category (2013, 2014 & 2015). I routinely review journal articles for IEEE TNS,

TMI and TRPMS. If elected to the NMISC, I will focus my efforts on encouraging greater participation of the radiation therapy

community in the MIC conference. These efforts are especially important as hadron therapy facilities are being planned in the United

States. Another of my goals would be to facilitate greater communication between developers and the end-users of imaging

technology. In closing, it will be my pleasure to help the NMISC perform its important function of promoting the development of

nuclear imaging sciences through educational and scholarly activities.

TAIGA YAMAYA (M’11) is a Team Leader of the Imaging Physics Team at the National Institute of Radiological Sciences (NIRS),

Chiba, Japan. He received his bachelor’s degree in Engineering Science from the Tokyo Institute of Technology (Titech) in 1996, and

subsequently completed his Ph.D. in the field of medical imaging science at the same institution in 2000. After graduation, he worked

as a postdoctoral researcher at Titech until moving to NIRS in 2004. His research covers not only image reconstruction methods, but

also novel radiation detectors and systems for PET. He has published more than 100 peer-reviewed journal articles, and had more than

30 registered patents. Among 18 other awards from journals and societies, he received the Society of Nuclear Medicine Young

Investigator Award in 2004 and the German Innovation Award in 2012.

Statement: I have participated in almost all of the annual Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging (NSS-MIC)

Conferences since 1999. More than 100 papers I have authored or co-authored have been accepted for presentation at the NSS-MICs

during those 19 years. I believe that Japan can be a major Asian hub for state-of-the-art research in this field, and one of my major

ambitions is to expand the participation of Japanese researchers in the field internationally. Since 2009 I have been organizing an

annual scientific gathering in Japan called the Next Generation PET Research Meeting. I have also become a member of the

Organizing Committee for the 2013 Seoul and the 2018 Sydney conferences. I have already gained experience in my previous

contribution to the Nuclear Medical and Imaging Sciences Council (NMISC) for 2013-2015. I think that I am ideally positioned to

draw more Japanese activity to IEEE NSS-MIC and also to act as a bridge between Asia and the IEEE in the future. Therefore, as a

representative of Asia, I believe that I can make a unique and significant contribution to the NMISC.

IEEE NUCLEAR AND PLASMA SCIENCES SOCIETY

PLASMA SCIENCE AND APPLICATIONS EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE ELECTION

For the Three-Year Term 1 January 2019 – 31 December 2021

(Vote for UP to SIX)

KRIS BECKWITH (M’14) received a Master in Science in 2002 at the University of Durham, UK and completed a PhD at the Dept.

of Physics, University of Durham, UK in 2005. His dissertation focused on connecting energetics in magnetohydrodynamic turbulence

in curved spacetime to X-ray observations of accreting black holes. He worked as a postdoctoral scientist at the Department of

Astronomy, University of Virginia from 2005 to 2008, where he studied the influence of magnetic field topology on

magnetohydrodynamic turbulence for black hole accretion and relativistic jet launching. From 2008 - 2009, he worked at the Institute

of Astronomy, University of Cambridge, where he developed numerical methods for relativistic magnetohydrodynamics, before

joining JILA at University of Colorado, Boulder in late 2009. While at JILA, he studied spectral properties of magnetohydrodynamic

turbulence in a range of astrophysical plasmas. In 2012, he joined Tech-X Corporation, first as an Associate Research Scientist, before

promotion to Research Scientist followed by Senior Research Scientist. At Tech-X Corporation, he led the development of the USim

fluid-plasma modeling tool in support of programs at the Department of Energy and Department of Defense. In 2017, he joined the

technical staff at Sandia National Laboratories, where he pursues research in magneto-hydrodynamic turbulence, plasma transport and

advanced algorithms for plasmas and electromagnetics. He has published over 20 articles in refereed journals on a range of topics in

plasma physics that have received over 1000 citations total.

DAVID BRUHWILER (M’99) received his Ph.D. in Astrophysical Planetary and Atmospheric Sciences from the University of

Colorado, Boulder in 1990, applying Hamiltonian perturbation theory to plasma and beam applications, followed by a postdoctoral

appointment to develop analytic models of magnetic field evolution and particle acceleration in solar flares. From 1992 to 1997, Dr.

Bruhwiler developed beam dynamics codes and designed a wide range of electron and hadron accelerators for Grumman Aerospace

Corp. and Northrop Grumman Corp. From 1997 to 2012, Dr. Bruhwiler worked for Tech-X Corp., becoming Vice President of

Accelerator Technology. He played a key role in developing the concept of a self-ionizing plasma wakefield accelerator in 2003;

contributed to one of the three LWFA “dream beam” Nature papers of 2004; developed new algorithms for correct simulation of

dynamic friction in 2008; became a Fellow of the APS in 2010; and co-invented the Trojan horse concept in 2012. Dr. Bruhwiler co-

founded RadiaSoft LLC in 2013, where he serves as President and CEO. Dr. Bruhwiler continues to develop new mathematical

algorithms and to simulate a wide range of particle beam, plasma and radiation applications. His research interests include plasma-

based accelerators and other high-gradient concepts, the nonlinear dynamics of high-intensity hadron beams, electron cooling,

synchrotron and FEL light sources, X-ray optics, computational reproducibility, and high performance cloud computing.

CHAO CHANG (GSM’10-M’11-SM’16) is a full professor in Xi’an Jiaotong University and Associate Director of Advanced

Interdisciplinary Technology Research Center, having gained a PhD at Tsinghua University, China (2010) and postdoctoral research

experiences at Stanford University, USA (2011-2013). His expertise includes mechanisms of intense nanosecond microwave-driven

window breakdown, dielectric-loaded accelerators, and free electron lasers. He discovered a novel technique for multipactor

suppression on high-power microwave windows and a novel electromagnetic undulator for free electron lasers. He has given seven

plenary/invited talks at international conferences and published 42 peer-reviewed papers as the first or corresponding author, including

two in Physical Review Letters and seven in Applied Physics Letters.

Dr. Chang has been a very active volunteer for IEEE. For example, he is the convener and Chair of the IEEE-sponsored Asia-Pacific

Conference on Plasma and Terahertz Science (often known as the Asia-Pacific version of ICOPS). He has been a member of the

organizating committee or the scientific advisory committee for the 43rd (2016, Canada) and 42nd (2015, Turkey) IEEE Int. Conf. on

Plasma Science (ICOPS) as well as for the 16th IEEE Int. Vacuum Electron Conf. (IVEC, 2015, Beijing).

Dr. Chang won the IEEE Nuclear and Plasma Science (NPSS) Early Achievement Award in 2017 and the IEEE Outstanding Student

in Plasma Science Award in 2011. He is an IEEE Senior Member, the founding chair of IEEE NPSS Xi’an Chapter, and Chief Guest

Editor of IEEE Trans. Plasma Sci. Special Issue for Plenary, Invited and Selected Papers from the 2018 Asia-Pacific Conference on

Plasma and Terahertz Science.

MATTHEW FRANZI (M’13) Dr. Franzi received the B.S. degree in Nuclear Engineering from the University of Michigan, Ann

Arbor, MI in 2008 and his MS and Ph.D. degrees in Nuclear Engineering from the University of Michigan in 2010 and 2014

respectively. His doctoral thesis focused primarily on the development of novel high power microwave sources for which he received

the best student paper award at IVEC 14’. Upon receiving his degree, he took a position as an Engineering Physicist within the

Technology and Innovation Directorate of SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, CA where he has worked from ’14 to

present. Dr. Franzi currently has 14 published peer review journal articles, one granted patent, and two pending. His area of expertise

includes the development and implantation of efficient, cost effective, RF sources and high power, over-moded, microwave networks

for normal conducting high gradient accelerator applications. Additional research areas encompass the study of cryogenic thin film

materials, applications of high voltage piezoelectrics, very high power handling non-reciprocal media, and characterization of

breakdown and conditioning in accelerating structures.

MAX LIGHT (M’17) is a plasma physicist at the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL). He received the BS degree in Electrical

Engineering from the University of New Mexico in 1989, and the MS and PhD degrees in Electrical Engineering from UCLA in 1994

and 2000 respectively. He joined LANL in 1994 where his research focused on anomalous transport in radio frequency helicon

plasmas. His research then shifted to plasma cathode electron beam generation and radio frequency plasma thruster development

through a collaborative effort with NASA. In 2010, he joined LANL’s electromagnetic pulse sensor development group in support of

the United States Nuclear Detonation Detection (USNDS) mission. His research focus is on trans-ionospheric electromagnetic wave

propagation, and ionospheric scintillation.

Dr. Light has an extensive background in plasma diagnostic theory and implementation, plasma wave theory, and electromagnetic

wave propagation through magnetized plasmas. He lectures plasma physics at the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology.

TAMMY MA (M’16) is an experimental physicist in inertial confinement fusion (ICF) and high energy density physics at the

National Ignition Facility (NIF) at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL). She graduated from Caltech in 2005 with a

B.S. in Aerospace Engineering, then received her M.S. in 2008 and Ph.D. in 2010 both from the University of California, San Diego.

Tammy subsequently completed a postdoc at LLNL before transitioning to a staff scientist in 2012, where she now leads a number of

the fusion experiments at the NIF and currently heads the X-Ray Analysis Group for the ICF program. She has authored or co-

authored over 140 refereed journal publications and is strongly committed to education and scientific outreach. In 2016, Tammy was

awarded the Presidential Early Career Award for Science and Engineering (PECASE), the highest honor bestowed by the United

States government on science and engineering professionals in the early stages of their independent research careers, as well as the

2016 Stix Award for Outstanding Early Career Contributions to Plasma Research from the American Physical Society Division of

Plasma Physics for her work in quantifying hydrodynamic instability mix in ICF implosions and for contributions to experiments

demonstrating fusion fuel gains exceeding unity.

Dr. Ma is currently the Chair of the LLNL Lab-Wide Laboratory Directed Research and Development Committee; a Member-at-Large

of the Executive Committee, and member of the Educational Outreach Committee of the Division of Plasma Physics of the American

Physical Society; a session organizer for the IEEE International Conference on Plasma Science (ICOPS) 2018, and also serves on a

number of other program committees and review panels. She previously served on the NIF Users’ Group Executive Committee, the

Omega Laser Facility Users’ Group Executive Committee, and on the High Energy Density Science Association (HEDSA) Council.

TOBIN MUNSAT (M’14) is a professor of physics at the University of Colorado, Boulder. He received a B.S. in Physics from the

University of North Carolina in 1994, and a Ph.D. in Plasma Physics from Princeton University in 2001. His dissertation was on the

topic of electron thermal transport in the CDX-U spherical torus, with a focus on experimental design and diagnostic development. In

2001 he was awarded a D.O.E. Fusion Energy Postdoctoral Fellowship, during which he helped a team from PPPL and UC Davis

develop a combined millimeter-wave imaging system consisting of an Electron Cyclotron Emission Imaging and Millimeter-Wave

Imaging Reflectometer. This system was installed on the TEXTOR tokamak, and subsequent systems following this heritage have

since been installed on tokamaks around the world. Following two years as an associate research physicist at PPPL, in 2004 he

became an assistant professor at the University of Colorado at Boulder (CU), where he is now a full professor. During his tenure at

CU, he continued his collaborative work on tokamak diagnostics, working on systems at NSTX, DIII-D, and KSTAR, while

developing small, local experiments in Boulder. In 2005 he received a Department of Energy Plasma Physics Junior Faculty

Development Award, and in 2010 he received a Department of Energy Office of Science Early Career Research Award.

Over the past decade his research has branched into space plasma physics, dusty plasmas, and planetary science, with investigations

into plasma and cosmic dust interactions with planetary surfaces. To this end, he is the Deputy Principal Investigator of the Institute

for Modeling Plasma Atmospheres and Cosmic Dust (IMPACT), a node of NASA’s Solar System Exploration Research Virtual

Institute (SSERVI) [impact.colorado.edu]. Current research in this area is focused on two experiments: a 3 MV linear “dust

accelerator” for studies of impact-plasma chemical reactions and diagnostic tools, and the Colorado Solar Wind Experiment, a large-

diameter flowing plasma device for studies of the solar wind interaction with the surfaces of airless bodies such as our moon. He has

mentored 9 graduate students and over 35 undergraduates as research assistants and is author on over 85 research articles. He is a

member of the American Physical Society, the Executive Committee of the University Fusion Association, and a member of IEEE

PSAC, where he was the general chair of ICOPS 2018.

MARTIN NIETO-PÉREZ (AM’09-M’12-SM’14) has a BS in Chemical Engineering from Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana,

granted in 1997. He was a Fulbright Scholar for postgraduate studies from 1998 to 2000, and obtained his MS (2001) and a PhD

(2004) degrees in Nuclear Engineering, both from the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. He was postdoctoral associate at

Argonne National Laboratory, a research unit of the US Department of Energy, from 2004 to 2006. Since 2008 he is tenured professor

at Instituto Politécnico Nacional, working at Centro de Investigación en Ciencia Aplicada y Tecnología Avanzada Unidad Querétaro.

Member of the Mexican National Researchers System (SNI) since 2007. Recipient in of the 2010 Research Excellence at IPN Award,

in the Young Researcher category. He has authored more than 30 publications in recognized technical journals and has participated in

multiple technical meetings and workshops related to nuclear energy and applied physics both in Mexico and abroad. His research

interests include plasma-material interaction phenomena in fusion devices and industrial tools, as well as modification of surfaces

using both vacuum and atmospheric plasmas. He has been an IEEE member since 2004, and achieved the Senior Member level in

2014.

MARQUIDIA PACHECO (M’17) received her Master's and PhD in Physics and Plasma Engineering from Paul Sabatier University

in France. In 2003, she joined the Laboratory of Plasmas Applications at the “Instituto Nacional de Investigaciones Nucleares” in

Mexico, where she currently develops plasma technologies to take care of the environment. One of her projects, consisting on

treatment of car exhaust by plasma technology, was developed at the Institut Supérieur de L'Automobile et des Transports, in Nevers,

France during a postdoctoral position. She won in 2009 the prix L'Oréal-UNESCO for Women in Science, in Mexico, with a project

dealing with plasma technology applied to treat greenhouse gases.

She has supervised 15 national and international projects; she has published 1 book, 2 book chapters, 3 national and international

patents, 46 international journals, and 140 conference presentations. She also has co-organized 4 Mexican and international

congresses. She is reviewer of national and international magazines and congresses and founder of “Sembrando ConCiencias” to

involve kids in science.

BHUVANA SRINIVASAN (M’16) received the B.S. degrees in aerospace and mechanical engineering from the Illinois Institute of

Technology in 2004, M.S. in aeronautics and astronautics from the University of Washington in 2006, and a Ph.D. in aeronautics and

astronautics from the University of Washington in 2010. From 2010 to 2013, she was a postdoctoral researcher in the theoretical

division of Los Alamos National Laboratory, following which she became a staff scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory in 2013

and held that position until 2016. She is presently an assistant professor in the Kevin T. Crofton department of aerospace and ocean

engineering at Virginia Tech and has held this position since 2014, where she leads a research group of six PhD students, several M.S.

students, and some undergraduate students.

At Virginia Tech, she teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in computational plasma dynamics, spacecraft propulsion, advanced

spacecraft propulsion, and hypersonic aerodynamics. Her research specialty spans a range of plasmas from low temperature to high-

energy-density plasmas with a focus on numerical simulation of plasmas. Her research areas include plasma-based space propulsion,

inertial confinement fusion, magneto-inertial fusion, space plasma physics, plasma-material interactions, and plasma instabilities. She

has authored and co-authored 17 peer-reviewed journal publications, several conference proceedings, and over 65 invited and

contributed talks and posters. She has served on the program committee and has chaired several technical sessions for APS (American

Physical Society) Division of Plasma Physics. She also serves on the APS Women in Plasma Physics committee.

ALEC G. R. THOMAS (M’18) is an Associate Professor of Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences at the University of

Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA. He received a MSci (hons) degree in Physics from the Imperial College London in 2002. He

obtained his Ph.D. degree in Plasma Physics on the topic of Laser Propagation and Mono-Energetic Electron Beam Injection in Laser-

Wakefield Accelerators at the Imperial College London in 2007. He was subsequently a Research Associate at Imperial College

London studying nonlocal transport in magnetized plasma and plasma code development. He joined the faculty of the Department of

Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences and the Center for Ultrafast Optical Science at the University of Michigan in 2008.

His research includes ultra-high-intensity laser-plasma interactions, compact plasma-based particle accelerators and radiation sources,

relativistic plasma kinetics and magnetized plasma transport theory.

Alec Thomas received the 2007 European-Physical-Society Plasma-Physics-Division PhD Research-Award for best doctoral thesis. At

Michigan he received both National Science Foundation CAREER and Air Force Office of Scientific Research Early Career Awards.

He was the Chair of the High Energy Density Science Association (HEDSA) in 2012. He is an Associate Editor for the New Journal

of Physics.

PENG ZHANG (GSM’06-M’13-SM’18) is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at

Michigan State University. He received his B.Eng. and M.Eng. degrees in electrical and electronic engineering from Nanyang

Technological University, Singapore, in 2006 and 2008, respectively, and his Ph.D. degree in nuclear engineering and radiological

sciences from the University of Michigan (UM), Ann Arbor, in 2012. His research interests are in theoretical and computational

physics in plasmas, nanoelectronics, and accelerator technology. He has been working on a variety of topics, including electrical

contacts, thin films, classical, ballistic, and quantum diodes, space-charge-limited current flows, beam-circuit interaction, multipactor

and breakdown, microwave absorption on rough surfaces, slow wave structures, z-pinches, laser-plasma interaction, and more recently

on vacuum nano devices, quantum tunneling plasmonic junctions, ultrafast photoemission, and novel miniaturized electromagnetic

radiation sources. He has authored or co-authored over 45 refereed journal publications and over 125 conference papers and

presentations. He was a recipient of the 2018 Air Force Office of Scientific Research Young Investigator Program (AFOSR YIP)

Award, the UM Richard and Eleanor Towner Prize for Outstanding Ph.D. Research, the UM Rackham Presidential Fellowship Award,

and the IEEE Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Graduate Scholarship Award. He is currently serving as an Editorial Board Member of

Scientific Reports, a journal published by Nature.

IEEE NUCLEAR AND PLASMA SCIENCES SOCIETY

PULSED POWER SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY TECHNICAL COMMITTEE ELECTION

For the Four-Year Term 1 January 2019 – 31 December 2022

(Vote for UP to FOUR)

STERLING R. BEESON (GSM’10-M’15) Research Electronic Engineer, United States Air Force Research Laboratory, has been

employed at AFRL for 3 years where he has been working in the high power microwave division of the directed energy directorate.

His specialties include rf engineering, EM theory, high voltage/pulse power design, and experimentation. Outside of the lab, he served

on several conference level organizing committees to include: the 2017 IEEE Pulsed Power Conference committee as the mobile app

chair (sponsored by PPST), the 2018 IEEE International Power Modulator ad High Voltage Conference committee as the publicity

and promotions chair (technically co-sponsored by PPST), and is currently on the 2019 Pulsed Power and Plasma Science committee

as the mobile app chair (co-sponsored by PPST). He has also served as a session chair and short course instructor at multiple Directed

Energy Professional Society conferences. Dr. Beeson received his BS in Applied Physics from Angelo State University in 2009 and

his MS and PhD in Electrical Engineering from Texas Tech University in 2011 and 2015, respectively. While in graduate school, his

focus was on high power microwave driven plasmas, with an emphasis in pulsed power, rf engineering, and plasma discharge physics.

Statement: My goal to serving on the Pulsed Power Science and Technology Committee is to help advance the science of the field,

promote research and development and overall collaboration between the many entities associated. Partnerships between industry,

government and universities (foreign and domestic) benefit all parties involved by inspiring innovation, broadening our perspectives,

and utilizing the strengths of each other. With my main objective of encouraging professional development (especially in young

upcoming individuals), advancing the technical knowledge base and engineering capabilities in the fields related to the pulsed power

community – serving on the Pulsed Power Science and Technology Committee will be a great platform to accomplish these goals.

WEIHUA JIANG (M’99-SM’10-F’14) received his undergraduate degree and Master degree in China from National University of

Defense Technology in 1982 and from Institute of Atomic Energy in 1985, respectively. He moved to Japan in 1987 and received his

PhD in Energy and Environmental Engineering from Nagaoka University of Technology in 1991. Since then, he has been teaching in

the Department of Electrical Engineering while conducting research in Extreme Energy-Density Research Institute at Nagaoka

University of Technology. During this time, he had also spent one year in Texas Tech University, Lubbock TX, as a Visiting

Associate Professor and two years in Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, as a Professor.

Dr. Jiang’s research interests have been in high-power particle beams, high-power microwaves, and pulsed power technologies.

Together with his collaborators, Dr. Jiang has developed different switching technologies and circuit configurations for pulsed power

generation. In addition, he has carried out a series of experimental demonstrations for applications of pulsed power technology to

environment protection and accelerator development. He has authored/coauthored more than 230 journal articles and has received

2018 Kenneth Germeshausen Award from IEEE International Power Modulator and High Voltage Conference. Dr. Jiang served as a

member of IEEE NPSS Administrative Committee (AdCom) during 2014~2017. He has been a Senior Editor of IEEE Transactions

on Plasma Science since 2012. He has been IEEE Fellow since 2014.

Statement: I hope I can represent the pulsed power communities of both Japan and China, in the IEEE Technical Committee for

Pulsed Power Science and Technology. I will try to encourage more active involvement of Asian pulsed-power experts in the IEEE

events and activities. I am also going to push for more IEEE support and benefit to the Members of these countries.

CLAUDIO COSTA MOTTA (M’96) Dr. Motta received the B.Eng. degree in electronics engineering from the College of

Engineering of S. Jose dos Campos, SP, Brazil, in 1982, the M. Sc. degree in plasma physics from the Technology Institute of

Aeronautics (ITA), S. Jose do Campos, Brazil, in 1986, and the Ph. D. degree in laser-plasma physics from the University of Sao

Paulo, (USP), in 1996. He undertook a Post-doctoral research in klystron modulators at SLAC, National Accelerator Laboratory,

Menlo Park, CA, USA, in 2010 and another in linear proton accelerators at Institut de Physique Nucléaire d’Orsay – IPNO, France

(2013). At ITA he worked as a plasma technology development engineer and a graduating lecturer of Quantum Mechanics and

Classical Electrodynamics courses. Since 2002, he became an Associate Professor at the University of São Paulo, (USP). At USP, Dr.

Motta is an employed microwave engineering researcher and a graduating lecturer of Fundamentals of Microwave Engineering

course. His research interests include microwave vacuum electronics, laser-plasma technology, klystrons, and klystron modulators,

pulsed power, and microwave charged particle accelerating structures. He has been the author or co-author of over 100 published

journal articles and conference proceedings. Dr. Motta is a member of the Microwave and Optoelectronics Brazilian Society and the

IEEE Electron Devices Society in the United States of America.

Statement: As a member of the IEEE NPSS PPST committee, I will have the chance of promoting the pulsed power science among

the people in general, undergraduate and graduate students and young researchers, especially in our region. Also, I will have the

opportunity to acquire experience abroad on management and interchange of technology and science information as well as

conference and meeting organization. Besides that, this position can contribute significantly to be awarded with grants and

scholarships in this field or related areas for new projects and graduate students, respectively.

LUIS M. S. REDONDO (M’06-SM’15) was born in Lisbon, Portugal in 1968. He received the Doctor degree in Electrical and

Computer Engineering in 2004, from IST, Lisbon University, Portugal. He is currently Coordinator Professor at Lisbon Engineering

Superior Institute, ISEL, teaching Power Electronics and Pulsed Power. Prof. Luis Redondo participate in 7 Portuguese research

projects as scientific Coordinator, has 5 Portuguese Patents, 4 international book chapters and 43 papers in international peer-review

journals. He is Senior Member of the Nuclear and Plasma Science Society from IEEE, since 2015. Also, invited Editor of the October

2012 Special Issue on Pulsed Power Science & Technology of the Transactions on Plasma Science IEEE journal and invited Editor of

the October 2015 Special Issue for Selected Papers from EAPPC 2014 of the Transactions on Plasma Science IEEE journal. In 2011

he founded the company EnergyPulse Systems, EPS, where he is R&D manager, and in 2015 the non-profit organization Association

for the Advancement of Pulsed Power, A2P2, for the dissemination of pulsed power technology and applications, where he is Vice-

President. His main achievements are related to solid-state monopolar and bipolar Marx generator topologies to industrial applications.

Statement: I have a long history in serving the Pulsed Power international community, as I was a voting member of the Pulsed Power

Science & Technology Committee of the IEEE Nuclear and Plasma Science Society, PPST/NPSS, from 2011 to 2016, being

nominated Distinguished Lecturer of the PPST/NPSS from 2011 to 2016 and Publication Chair for the Pulsed Power Conference since

the 2013 conference. In addition, I was the General Chair of the EAPPC-BEAMS-MEGAGAUSS 2016 in Estoril, Portugal. Currently,

I am a member of the International Organizing Committee of the Euro-Asian Pulsed Power Conference, EAPPC and a member of the

International Advisory Committee of the International Conference on High-Power Particle Beams, BEAMS. My willingness to serve

the international pulsed power community is clear by my active contribution on launching a non-profit international association for the

dissemination of this technology and applications, the Association for the Advancement of Pulsed Power, A2P2, where I am Vice-

President, and with which I intend to establish close cooperation with the PPST/NPSS. Finally, one of my long-term goals is to be the

chair of the Pulsed Power Conference in Portugal contributing to spread Pulsed Power technology and applications worldwide.

EMILY A. SCHROCK (S’14-M’15) (nee Hirsch) received her MS and BS degrees in electrical engineering from Texas Tech

University (TTU). Her master’s thesis involved research in wide bandgap semiconductor devices for pulsed power applications. She

was president of the IEEE – HKN honor society at TTU where she led her organization’s volunteering at robotics competitions for

elementary through high school students. In addition, she volunteered as the lead mentor of 12 high school students for an engineering

apprenticeship program. After completing her master’s degree at TTU, Emily joined Sandia National Laboratories (SNL) as part of the

Directed Energy Special Applications team. At SNL, Emily researches compact pulsed power and nonlinear transmission lines, and

she serves as co-PI of a photoconductive semiconductor switch (PCSS) ARPA-E project for power electronics. Emily has 13

publications from her research in compact pulsed power and power electronics technologies. In Albuquerque, Emily continues her

volunteer work by mentoring under-represented undergraduate STEM students at the University of New Mexico (UNM), and by

giving presentations to elementary school classes in Albuquerque to promote STEM careers. Emily will continue her pursuit of a

Ph.D. by taking directed energy related courses at UNM in the fall of 2018.

Statement: I have a history of service and leadership in and outside of IEEE organizations, and I have served as a reviewer for IEEE

Transactions on Plasma Science. I am passionate about outreach and mentoring to promote diversity in engineering and specifically in

the pulsed power community. I have strong leadership experience and believe I could bring a new perspective to the IEEE NPSS

PPST committee.

JAMES A. SCHROCK (S’13-GSM’14-M’18) completed his BS, MS, and PhD in electrical engineering at Texas Tech University.

His graduate research determined the failure mechanisms and optimized design of advanced Silicon Carbide switches for pulsed

power and power electronic applications. As an undergraduate student, he joined Air Force ROTC and was an officer in the IEEE

honor society. Dr. Schrock is currently a captain at the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), Directed Energy Directorate at

Kirtland AFB. At AFRL, he serves as a high power electronics engineer and as the Chief of the Numerical Simulation Section. As a

high power electronics engineer, he designs circuits for the empirical evaluation of pulsed power components, performs Spice

simulations that influence the design of advanced Marx generators, vectors research in nonlinear transmission line RF sources, and is

the PI of a poly-phase resonant dc-dc converter project. As Chief of the Numerical Simulation Section, he leads both civilians and

military simulating and designing next-generation high power electromagnetic sources, and is responsible for their professional

growth and performance evaluations. Additionally, he serves as the STEM outreach liaison for AFRL at Kirtland. Dr. Schrock has 30

publications in the areas of pulsed power and power electronics.

Statement: I have proven experience with leadership and service in IEEE. I currently serve as a reviewer for IEEE Transactions on

Plasma Science and IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices. I have also served as session chair for the IEEE International Power

Modulator and High Voltage Conference. Additionally, I am a professional leader in the DoD. I will bring my commitment to service

and my leadership experience to further develop the objectives of this committee.

MARK A. SINCLAIR (M’04) was awarded a BSc(Hons) degree from the University of Manchester in England and an MSc in Laser

Engineering and Pulsed Power Technology from the University of Strathclyde, Scotland. He then joined the Pulsed Power Group at

the Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE), the last to join whilst Charlie Martin was still active in the field. At AWE he started work

on the E Minor machine and progressed to be the lead scientist on Mogul E which became AWE’s most powerful flash x-ray machine

for Hydrodynamic radiography. He then progressed to build up a broad understanding of AWE’s full suite of Pulsed Power machines,

examining and refining their design and operation and archiving and analysing past performance data. He also participated in AWE’s

early investigations in Laser Driven X-Ray sources at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratories. He progressed to become the Team

Leader for Pulsed Power at AWE, managing a group of 14 scientists and engineers and took on the budget responsibilities for Pulsed

Power capability development. These responsibilities led to the development of closer links and collaborations with other companies

and government organisations within Europe and the USA. Currently, he is leading efforts on AWE’s next generation x-ray

capabilities to support its core programme. These capabilities are being jointly developed with CEA in France for the mutual benefit

of both countries. In 2017 he also chaired the 21st IEEE Pulsed Power Conference in Brighton, the first time this conference has been

held outside the USA.

Statement: As one of the first non-US members of the IEEE Pulsed Power Science and Technology Committee I have been able to

support the committee as it has broadened its remit and transitioned from appointed to elected membership. In addition to chairing

PPC 2017, I have served as technical area chair, session organiser and Student Paper Conference co-ordinator to previous conferences.

If elected to the committee I would be able to bring my experience in the running of the conference to the committee. In addition I

would work to ensure that we continue the process already started to make Pulsed Power at IEEE inclusive to all regions of the IEEE.

RICK B. SPIELMAN (M’07) received his Ph.D. in Plasma Physics from the University of California, Davis, CA in 1978. He joined

Sandia National Laboratories in 1979 as a Member of the Technical Staff in the pulsed-power center, advanced to Principal Member

of the Technical Staff, and finally promoted to Distinguished Member of the Technical Staff. He was the Chief Scientist and Project

Manager at Sandia for the successful Z Machine – the most powerful pulsed-power driver in the world. In 1999, he was promoted to

be the Manager of the Pulsed Power Research Department in the Pulsed Power Center at Sandia. He left Sandia to go into private

industry in 2001. From 2005-2012 he was the Vice President of Pulsed-Power for Ktech Corporation in Albuquerque, NM. In 2013,

he joined Idaho State University where he is presently a Professor of Physics and Director of the Idaho Accelerator Center. His

research focus is pulsed-power engineering and pulsed-power physics as it relates to high-energy-density physics. This includes the

fields of electron-beam radiography, pulsed-power-driven z-pinch radiation sources, x-pinch radiation sources, intense particle beam

generation, high density plasmas, and inertial confinement fusion. Dr. Spielman presently consults for multiple US laboratories and

business. He has published over 200 articles in refereed journals—and has been cited more than 6585 times with an H index of 42

according to Google Scholar.

Statement: I have nearly four decades of experience in the field of pulsed power and have attended the IEEE Pulsed Power

Conferences since 1985. I personally knew or know most of the past Marx award winners. I have been the guest editor for the IEEE

Transactions on Plasma Science. I am also a reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science and many other journals. The

success of the IEEE Pulsed Power Conference is based on the excellence of research presented in the publications and proceedings. It

is critical that excellence be a part of all decision making for the IEEE Pulsed Power Conference and all award processes. I have been

a member of the American Physical Society (APS) since 1974 and a member of the Institute of Electronics and Electrical Engineers

(IEEE) since 2006.

IEEE NUCLEAR AND PLASMA SCIENCES SOCIETY ELECTION

RADIATION INSTRUMENTATION STEERING COMMITTEE ELECTION

For the Three-Year Term 1 January 2019 – 31 December 2021

(Vote for UP to FIVE)

REYNOLD J. COOPER (M’17) is a Staff Applied Physicist and Group Leader in the Applied Nuclear Physics Program at Lawrence

Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL). Reynold received B.Sc., M.Sc., and Ph.D. degrees from The University of Liverpool, UK before

undertaking postdoctoral research at Oak Ridge National Laboratory where he worked on the development of novel High Purity Germanium

(HPGe) detectors for neutrinoless double beta decay search and nuclear structure physics. Reynold joined LBNL in 2011 where he currently

leads a research program in the development of radiation detectors and imaging systems, algorithms, and modeling tools for fundamental

physics and nuclear security.

Statement: My research career has focused on the development of instrumentation and algorithms for radiation detection applications in

basic physics, nuclear security, and medicine. My interests range from understanding and overcoming the performance limits of HPGe

detectors to the development of systems and algorithms for gamma-ray detection and imaging in real-world environments. I wish to become

a member of the RISC in order to promote the science and application of radiation detection technology and to support and advocate for the

scientific community at large. If elected, I will serve the core functions of the RISC in planning the IEEE NSS/MIC conferences. In doing

so, I will seek to engage early career scientists, students, and postdoctoral researchers and allow their perspectives on the evolution of the

field to inform the long range planning of these meetings. I will also promote opportunities for graduate students and young scientists to

become more involved in the radiation instrumentation community. I have regularly contributed to the IEEE NSS/MIC meetings and

SORMA conferences. I serve as a reviewer for IEEE TNS and have acted as a reviewer for IEEE NSS/MIC and RTSD since 2011. I served

as an organizing committee member and topic chair for the 2016 SORMA West conference and I will serve as the program chair for the

next SORMA West conference to be held in 2020.

AUDREY CORBEIL THERRIEN (GSM’11-M’17) is a Visiting Scientist working in the LINAC Coherent Light Source (LCLS) Data

Acquisition department at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. She received her Ph.D in Electrical Engineering from the Université de

Sherbrooke in 2018, where she worked on the development of new generation Positron Emission Tomography detectors. She has been an

active member of the IEEE NSS-MIC Conference Information and Promotion (CIP) committee since 2011 and was CIP table Chair in 2017.

She received the Paul Phelps Continuing Education Grant in 2011 and became the first recipient of the IEEE Glenn F. Knoll Graduate

Educational Grant in 2017. She currently holds the Banting Postdoctoral Fellowship for her work on high bandwidth detector readout at

SLAC.

Statement: I have been involved with the IEEE NSS-MIC conference since the beginning of my graduate studies, serving on the CIP

committee. This has given me ample opportunity to interact with people from all backgrounds who come to our conferences for a variety of

reasons. In addition, I have also been involved in several initiatives to recruit high school students to STEM careers.

If I were elected to RISC, I would help the committee with their efforts towards inclusivity in the organization of conferences, the

recruitment of volunteers and the addition of new members. The evolution of the telecommunications technologies has changed how young

scientists and engineers interact and we need new approaches to connect with them and include them. In addition, I have been to several

conferences for women scientists and technologists and I believe there are several aspects we could include in our conferences to make them

more welcoming for all people.

GRZEGORZ W. DEPTUCH (M’99-SM’07) received a M.Sc. in electronics from the AGH University of Science and Technology,

Krakow, Poland, in 1996 and a Ph.D. in physics-electronics jointly from Université Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg, France and from the AGH

University of Science and Technology, Krakow, Poland in 2002. He was as a research assistant at the AGH University of Science and

Technology, Krakow, Poland since 1996, then a postdoctoral researcher with Laboratoire d'Electronique et Physique des Systèmes

Instrumentaux, Strasbourg from 2002 to 2004, and in 2005, he joined the Instrumentation Division at Brookhaven National Laboratory,

Upton, NY, as an assistant physicist. For the last decade, he has been with Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, IL where since

2011 he has led the ASIC Development Group. He received IEEE NPSS Radiation Instrumentation Early Career Award in 2008. He is

senior member of IEEE since 2007. He is an author or co-author of about 120 publications and holds three US patents. His interests lie in

mixed-mode integrated circuits for reading out signals from radiation detectors with emphasis on pixel detectors, where he seeks for

innovative technologies allowing bringing new generations of devices with more in-situ processing to life.

Statement: I have carried out research on radiation detectors and integrated electronics, processing signals from these detectors, for much

of my career. My first design of an integrated circuits was in a 1.2 um CMOS process, now I work in 65 and 40 nm nodes. I have been

looking comprehensively into the development of new detector systems to understand well optimization of individual components, like a

sensor, readout integrated circuit, data acquisition, but also their interplay to build instruments allowing collecting good sets of data. If

elected to RISC, I would work in a similar manner seeking for cohesion, helping to maximize benefit to the radiation instrumentation

community through carrying about the detailed exposure of core components and justifying their specifications by good understanding of

applications and instrumentation systems. I would be advocating for such a balanced content for the benefits of NSS/MIC/RTSD meetings

programs. I think that this is important for attraction of more young scientists into the field and for keeping the high quality of the

NSS/MIC/RTSD meetings. I have contributed presentations to IEEE meetings over many years, while my first meeting was in 2001 in Lyon,

France. Since 2009, I have been regularly involved in shaping of the meetings through serving as topic convener for sessions on novel

semiconductor detectors. I hope that my experience and my intrinsic curiosity would make me an effective member of RISC.

MAREK FLASKA (M’06-AF’08-AM’11-M’12-AF13-M’17) is an assistant professor of Nuclear Engineering of the Mechanical and

Nuclear Engineering Department (MNE) at the Pennsylvania State University (PSU). He received his Ph.D. in Applied Physics from the

Delft University of Technology in 2006. Since then, he has been actively working in the fields of nuclear nonproliferation, nuclear

safeguards, nuclear forensics, and fundamental nuclear physics. He is the founder and director of the Radiation Detection, Characterization,

and Imaging Laboratory at MNE PSU. His interests include novel detection methods and algorithms for identification and characterization

of nuclear materials for nuclear nonproliferation, homeland security, and nuclear-forensics applications, particle imaging, neutron activation

analysis, neutron and gamma-ray spectroscopy, time-of-flight experiments, low- and high-energy nuclear physics, fundamental-physics

experiments, Monte-Carlo simulations, and novel digital data-acquisition systems with real-time processing capabilities for various radiation

detectors. During his professional career he has supervised a large number of graduate and undergraduate students and published more than

190 papers in peer-reviewed scientific journals and international conference proceedings. His PSU teaching activities include

undergraduate- and graduate-level courses on radiation detection for nuclear nonproliferation and safeguards, radiation detection

instrumentation, radiation transport, and health physics.

Statement: I would like to utilize my radiation detection expertize to help promoting the development and utilization of radiation detectors

throughout the scientific community and public, as well as to serve the interests, desires, and needs of participants of the annual NSS/MIC

meetings. I perceive this meeting as the most relevant radiation detection conference of the year, and it will be my mission, if elected as a

member of the Radiation Instrumentation Steering Committee, to promote this perception throughout the research and public communities

by popularizing the main topics of the meetings. These meetings need to continue being greatly beneficial to the attendees by strategically

selecting meeting programs and topics. Another important objective I would like to pursue is to attract even more young scientists (young

professionals and undergraduate/graduate students) to attend the NSS/MIC meetings, to further reinforce the importance of the meetings and

to achieve their long-term quality and continuity. I have been contributing to the NSS/MIC meetings for more than 13 years and I am

looking forward to, if given the opportunity, to serve the NSS/MIC community to the best of my capabilities by effectively supporting and

promoting the annual meetings, and making them the ultimate annual meetings for the entire radiation detection community.

GIULIA HULL (M’17) is a Research Engineer at the CNRS (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique) in France. Since 2010 she

works in the Instrumentation and Computing Division of the “Institut de Physique Nucléaire d’Orsay”, where currently is the head of the

R&D Detector department. Giulia received her PhD in Physics from the University of Rome “Roma Tre” (Italy) in 2005, defending an

experimental thesis on the development of new scintillator-based instrumentation for medical imaging applications. She further pursued this

research activity as a post-doctoral collaborator for one more year. In 2006 she joined the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory as Post-

Doctoral Research Staff member in the “Physics and Advanced Technologies” directorate. Her work at LLNL focused on the study of the

detection properties of new scintillator materials, with particular attention to the light yield, the energy resolution and the non-

proportionality effect.

Giulia’s current activity is centered on the design and R&D of ionizing radiation detectors for physics experiments, in different fields of

applications. In particular she is the lead engineer for the development of scintillator based-detectors, mostly for gamma rays and neutrons.

Her most recent work includes the development and characterization of the Central Neutron Detector for the CLAS12 experiment at the

Jefferson National Laboratory (VA, USA), the R&D activity on extruded plastic scintillators and wavelength shifting fibers in the

framework of the Pierre Auger Observatory upgrade (AUGER Prime), and the R&D activity for the European projects NuPNet-GANAS (as

leader of the working package) and ENSAR2-JRA1 PASPAG for the development of new scintillator materials for possible application in

nuclear physics experiments.

Statement: Since my PhD I have been involved in the activities of the IEEE-NPSS, regularly attending the NSS-MIC conferences and,

since 2008, serving as a TNS reviewer. At many levels the IEEE-NPSS activities have contributed in defining my professional life. I believe

it is now my turn to offer my contribution to the community.

In these latest years the IEEE-NPSS has strived to constantly increase the involvement of people working in the radiation instrumentation

field, from all over the world - a clear example of this effort being the choice of the locations for the conferences, first of all the NSS-MIC,

which has been organized in Europe, Asia and now, Australia. I truly believe this effort to be of the utmost importance. It is crucial to

pursue in this direction, bringing together the largest international community by actively engaging the more and more members from all

over the world, with particular attention to women and young professionals.

It is my opinion that one of the main strengths of IEEE-NPSS is the ability to gather people from different fields, with very complementary

expertise, and at different stages of their career, fostering a virtuous and fruitful exchange of ideas. This is necessary for the professional

growth of the young generations, who can exchange with the most prominent personalities in their field, but as well for the senior scientist

and engineers, who can share their knowledge and profit of the enthusiasm and engagement of the younger fellows.

PAUL LECOQ (M’03-SM’13-F’15) has received his diploma as Engineer in Physics Instrumentation at the Ecole Polytechnique de

Grenoble in 1972, under the leadership of Nobel Laureate Louis Néel. After two years of work at the Nuclear Physics laboratory of the

University of Montreal, Canada, he got his PhD in Nuclear Physics in 1974. Since then he has been working at CERN in 5 major

international experiments on particle physics, one of them led by Nobel Laureate Samuel Ting. His action on detector instrumentation, and

particularly on heavy inorganic scintillator materials has received a strong support from Carlo Rubia and Georges Charpak. He has been the

technical coordinator of the electromagnetic calorimeter of the CMS experiment at CERN, which played an important role in the discovery

of the Higgs boson.

Paul Lecoq is the founder of the CERN-based international Crystal Clear collaboration regrouping 28 institutes and companies worldwide

contributing to the development of scintillator science. He has also created the SCINT conference series in 1991, which gathers every

second year the international community working on fundamental aspects, production technologies and applications of scintillators. Member

of a number of advisory committees and of international Societies he is since 2002 the promoter of the CERIMED initiative (European

Center for Research Research in Medical Imaging) for networking physics and medicine in the field of medical imaging. He has been

elected in 2008 member of the European Academy of Sciences and in 2017 head of the Physics division of the Academy. He has been

awarded an ERC advanced grant in 2013 by the European Research Council. He has been elected IEEE fellow in 2015.

Statement: I have been deeply involved in the NPSS activities as early as 1990, first as a regular attendee of the NSS/MIC conferences,

then as a RISC member (2003-2006), NMISC member (2010-2013), member of the JOS for site selection (since 2009), ADCOM member

(since 2015), IEEE fellow (since 2015).

I would like to propose my candidature to the RISC, as I consider important to balance the necessary introduction of new blood in this

committee with the experience of a few senior people, in order to help defining the best strategy for an as adiabatic as necessary evolution

and reactivity to a rapidly changing world. Indeed, in a few years, our conferences, originally based in USA, have become global, rotating

between USA, Europe and Asia. But the field is also evolving and the competition with other conferences is high. In order to keep the

attendance at a high level (in number and in quality) we have to capitalize and communicate on the unique multidisciplinary spirit, which

has always animated the NSS conferences, and to create new incentives, particularly in the direction of students and young postdocs.

I would like to contribute to this ambitious and very important task.

AZAREE T. LINTEREUR (S’06-AM’11-M’15) joined the Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering Department at Penn State University as

an Assistant Professor in August 2017 and is establishing a detector development laboratory. Prior to joining Penn State University, she was

at the University of Utah, where she led the development of a radiation detection research program. She received her PhD from the

University of Florida in 2013 and did postdoctoral work at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in the Radiation Detection and Nuclear

Sciences group where her research focused on 3He alternatives for neutron detection, and pulse shape discrimination methods for neutron-

gamma ray sensitive materials. Her research interests include radiation detector development, nondestructive assay techniques, international

safeguards, and 3He alternative technologies.

Statement: Radiation instrumentation has been the focus of my career for the past 10 years. During this time, IEEE has provided me with

significant opportunities for professional advancement. Consequently, I am committed to promoting and advancing initiatives of

importance to the radiation instrumentation community, as well as working to ensure that the NSS/MIC/RTSD conference remains a premier

venue for technical information and professional networking. As a junior faculty member, I am also interested in increasing student

opportunities and involvement, as well as skill and relationship building for young professionals. I have participated in the NSS/MIC/RTSD

conference through presentations and by chairing sessions, and I look forward to the opportunity to contribute further as a member of RISC.

ABDALLAH LYOUSSI (M’12) is a Physicist in nuclear instrumentation, radiation detection and nuclear measurement at CEA French

Atomic Energy Commission in France. . He received his MSc in nuclear physics from Fes University in 1988 and MSc in Nuclear

Engineering from French institute of nuclear sciences and technologies (INSTN) in 1990. In 1994 he received his PhD in nuclear physics

from Blaise Pascal University (Clermont-Ferrand, France). He received French Nuclear Energy Society Award for his works on

photofission interrogation as nondestructive measurement by using a LINAC machine. He has worked on nondestructive measurement

methods such as photofission interrogation, neutron interrogation by using different kinds of detectors, electronics, data acquisition systems

and advanced particles production machine like LINAC; neutron generators, X tubes. He developed, patented and published various works

and innovative and advanced nuclear measurement methodologies. Abdallah Lyoussi is Professor at INSTN and Aix-Marseille University

where he cochairs a master on “Instrumentation & Measurements in Harsh Media”. He is currently working at CEA (French Atomic &

Alternative Energies) Cadarache research centre as researcher and International Expert in physics of nuclear instrumentation, detection and

measurement. Finally, since May 2010, Abdallah Lyoussi is the founder and scientific chair of a new joint instrumentation and measurement

Lab. LIMMEX between CEA and Aix-Marseille University.

He is the founder and the General Chair of ANIMMA conference (www.animma.com) since 2009.

Abdallah Lyoussi is IEEE distinguish lecturer since 2014.

Statement: I have carried out research on radiation instrumentation and detection as well as innovative nuclear nondestructive

measurement techniques for much of my career. If elected to RISC, I would work to enhance its core functions, helping to maximize benefit

to attendees of NSS-MIC meetings, and advocating initiatives of value to the radiation instrumentation community. I would help to foster

an environment that will attract more young scientists into our field of activities. I have contributed presentations to IEEE meetings over

many years. I founded and lead since 2012 each year during NSS-MIC conference a specific workshop dedicated to instrumentation and

measurement in nuclear media. The workshop attracts each year increasing number of attendees. I also act each year as Session Convenor

for NSS conference where I lead and chair specific scientific session dedicated to my fields of research activities. All these actions have

given me insight to be an effective member of RISC.

MASSIMO MORICHI (M’97) Executive Vice President CAEN S.p.A. & President CAEN SYS

Former: SVP Director Global R&D and Innovation of AREVA Group (France)

VP R&D CTO CANBERRA Industries (BU-NM of AREVA Group) (US) VP R&D Leader of the WG Site Remediation Fukushima Project

(Japan)

He is leading the CAEN Group towards the industrial nuclear field, developing instrumentation technologies, nuclear measuring systems

and solutions (CAEN SYS) in the areas of Fuel Cycle, Reactors and Safeguards applications. Mr. Morichi has more than 25 years’

experience in management, research, engineering, product & program management, Technology scouting, Intellectual Property

Management, Technology Merge & Acquisition.

Mr. Morichi was CTO-VP R&D Innovation of BU Nuclear Measurements (CANBERRA BUNM of AREVA) and later SVP-Director of

R&D Innovation of the AREVA Group (2004-2016) (The largest Nuclear operator worldwide) and was coordinating a group of Engineering

of more tha 280 people and 800 experts in all nuclear technology domains overseeing a Budget of >700MEuro with more than 10 Research

Centers distributed world-wide.

Mr. Morichi start to work in 1986 at INFN and with Min. of Interior for the Chernobyl emergency performing aerial radiological surveys

and coordinating spectroscopy measurements at the Atomic Defence Laboratory of the Fire Brigades, later he went to OakRidge and worked

also for ORTEC as gamma spectroscopy specialist.

Mr. Morichi has been Teacher of Spectroscopy Emergency Measurements for the Min of Interior. Mr. Morichi joint in 1997 the COGEMA

group as Technical and Marketing Manager; in 2005 was appointed VP R&D CTO of the AREVA BU Nuclear Measurements

(CANBERRA Inc. in US) and in March 2011 took the responsibility in Japan of the AREVA Fukushima Project as WG Leader of the site

remediation and mitigation plan where he realized many systems including the first on-site contaminated water treatment system.

He established key technology developments with CEA, DOE National Laboratories, IAEA and major nuclear industries and he actively

promote and participate to the creation of the “Nuclear Reactor Institute” (EDF-CEA-AREVA). Upon graduation in “Nuclear Engineering”,

he specialized in Reactor Core Physics and neutron simulation & modelling (ENEA Dipartimento Reattori Veloci). He participates to PEC

studies on reactivity transient analysis. Mr. Morichi received Doctor in Nuclear Physics from “La Sapienza” University of Rome (Italy).

Mr. Morichi is a certified AREVA international Senior Expert on Instrumentation, Nuclear Measurements and Safety & Protection and he’s

a Certified Radiation Protection Expert. He is member of several scientific Committees; Visiting Committee member of IRSN (Institute for

Nuclear Radiation Safety) and has been Board member of the Nuclear Experimental Reactor J. Horowitz. He’s panellist as invited speaker

at STS-Kyoto Forum on “Nuclear Technology Trends and Future Prospective” He has been awarded with International Patents and has

many International Scientific Publications

Statement: I strongly believe that there is still much to do in improving today Radiation Instrumentation! It is my feeling that most of today

nuclear instrumentation in use, is based on a very conservative one and that very often is very old technology based and using mainly pluri-

decennal proofed technology. Such approach is often limiting the opportunity in implementing novel technologies and techniques/methods

that could support important safety improvements and facilitate operational work about my statements:

" It is my commitment to continuously improve nuclear measurements technologies/methods and products/solutions in Radiation

Instrumentation, implementing innovative solutions and assuring fulfillment of the latest International Standards while maximizing

Operational CONOPS benefits, support Safety enhancements as well as facilitate a commitment/implementation of the ALARA concept "

Today novel recent detection and electronic technologies as well as, what we call " technology enablers " , can facilitate the implementation

of innovations that could impact on Radiation Instrumentation improvements and special effort must be dedicated to create the normative

environment to facilitate the acceptance of such innovative solutions while rigorously assuring the best-in-class radiological performances

and the methods to be used. More and more Radiation Instruments are designed based on VOC (Voice of the Customers) needs, and must be

capable to accomplish and solve issues and problems that are of major complexity. Novel Instrumentation must be conceived with the intent

to create opportunities for significant safety improvements and assure true ALARA implementation.

I've dedicated my career to develop innovative key instruments that could facilitate to solve problems in all Nuclear Measurements both for

Fuel Cycle as well as for the Reactors.

I personally dedicate lots of effort in trying to change a paradigm and as a pure example, here two systems that I believe represent a great

innovation in this field:

1- the VeryFuel for the IAEA to assess minimum quantities of SNM in poisoned Fresh Fuel arrays for Non-Proliferation and Safeguards in

15 min and with uncertainty of 1% and based on gamma-neutron pulse shape discrimination with time correlation analysis while decennial

technology was based on traditional collar monitors and not being able to measure in less than 5 hours with 6-7% uncertainty and still based

on large arrays of He-3 and with an higher cost (>50%).

2- the DigiWaste: a platform that could integrate different technologies such Spectroscopy, Dosimetry, RFID UHF, Video, Audio, GPS

Tracking, Bar Code and that will allow to implement a full ALARA concept in D&D activities and in Waste Management significantly

improving the Quality of the Measurements and reducing to ZERO the data handling in field and in post processing and data consolidation

while assuring the digitization of all Waste Data in the entire waste handling process.

I believe that IEEE is most probably the only/unique real-independent-scientific organization that could lead this process without being

affected from tradition/resistance/influence and in this context I would be honored to be part of what I think could be a transformation

process that could facilitate innovative spirit in Radiation Detection and Methods.

MASAHARU NOMACHI (M’04-SM’13) is a physicist in Institute for Radiation Sciences at Osaka University. He received a Ph.D in

Physics from Osaka University, Japan in 1983, followed by postdoctoral work at Max Planck Institute for nuclear physics and the

department of physics at Heidelberg University. He worked in LEAR (Low Energy Antiproton Ring) experiment at CERN. In 1986 he

joined KEK online data acquisition group. He leads development of UNIX based data acquisition system for SDC/SSC test experiments and

experiments at KEK. In 1993, he joined ATLAS/LHC experiment. In 1995, he moved to RCNP (Research Center for Nuclear Physics) at

Osaka University. He leads computer and network group at RCNP. In 1996, he organized an international workshop for network based data

acquisition system in Osaka. From 2000, he worked in Neutrino physics as a professor of Graduate school of Science, Osaka University. In

2014, He organized 19th Real-Time Conference in Japan.

Statement: I have carried out research on radiation instrumentation on subatomic physics. If elected to RISC, I would work to attract

young scientists in developing countries especially in Asia into our field. The state-of-art research in leading institutes is not only for

research frontier but also for education. I organized international school of radiation measurements. The school was held 7 times in 10 years

inviting students from Asian countries. Mini school was also organized in Asian countries. Collaborating with NPSS/IEEE, real-time school

was organza in Japan and Vietnam, which have given me insight to be an effective member of RISC.

FRANCISCO JAVIER RAMIREZ-JIMENEZ (AM’03-M’09) is a researcher on Nuclear Electronics in the National Institute for Nuclear

Research, ININ, MEXICO, since 1980. He is engineer in Electronics from the National Polytechnic Institute, Mexico and received a Ph.D

in Electronic Engineering from the Toluca Technological Institute, Mexico in 2005.

He leads the Laboratory of Radiation Detectors at ININ in which the main interest is the research on new radiation detectors and

applications. He also has a continuous participation in scientific/technical events with the International Atomic Energy Agency, IAEA, and

is considered an expert in semiconductor radiation detectors in the IAEA Physics Section, is a member of the consultant team: Technical

Working Group on Nuclear Power Plant Instrumentation and Control, TWG NPPIC of the IAEA Nuclear Power Engineering Section.

Statement: is a researcher on Nuclear Electronics in the National Institute for Nuclear Research, ININ, MEXICO, since 1980. He is

engineer in Electronics from the National Polytechnic Institute, Mexico and received a Ph.D in Electronic Engineering from the Toluca

Technological Institute, Mexico in 2005. He leads the Laboratory of Radiation Detectors at ININ in which the main interest is the research

on new radiation detectors and applications. He also has a continuous participation in scientific/technical events with the International

Atomic Energy Agency, IAEA, and is considered an expert in semiconductor radiation detectors in the IAEA Physics Section, is a member

of the consultant team: Technical Working Group on Nuclear Power Plant Instrumentation and Control, TWG NPPIC of the IAEA Nuclear

Power Engineering Section.

IEEE NUCLEAR AND PLASMA SCIENCES SOCIETY ELECTION

FUSION TECHNOLOGY STANDING COMMITTEE ELECTION

For the Four-Year Term 1 January 2019 – 31 December 2022

(Vote for UP to FOUR)

KEVIN FREUDENBERG (M’17) graduated from the University of Florida with highest honors in 2000 and went on to receive an

MS degree in 2002 from Florida. His graduate research was focused on the tribological behavior of next generation polymer

composites filled with Alumina nano-particles. He began his fusion career shortly after accepting an engineering analyst position at

ORNL/Y12 in 2002. Initially, he was tasked with performing FEA analysis on the Quasi-Poloidal Stellarator (QPS) and National

Compact Stellarator Experiment (NCSX). He conducted both thermal hydraulic and structural non-linear transient FEA studies using

ANSYS for vacuum vessels, viewing ports, magnetic coils and experimental support structures for various fusion reactor designs. The

analysis included problems involving severe temperature gradients and cryogenic material properties with magnetic loading and

contact algorithms. He developed a unique clamping system for the magnetic coils of NCSX, which accounted for thermal expansion,

cooling and localized high pressure areas. During this time, he also designed an experimental liquid Nitrogen shear fixture for testing

field period assembly hardware for the main cryogenic magnets for NCSX. He was responsible for the design and testing effort of a

cryogenic bending test fixture used to determine the material properties of a full scale experimental magnetic field coil.

In 2007, he transitioned to the USITER project and began supporting the magnet team as their lead analyst. His duties included

oversight of other analysts and subcontractors to perform analysis and design in many coil areas such as pre-compression structure,

cryogenic He inlets, superconductor joints, insulation, assembly tooling and various other aspects of coil manufacture and design. He

led the analysis team during CDR, PDR, FDR and Title 3 phases of the CS coil design cycle and developed and managed the analysis

and design resource loaded schedules for USITER magnet systems. He has also served on review teams for contracts issued for R+D

and support services for the USITER project. His team designed the lower gravity flex support for the CS coil to accommodate

relative motion and extreme loading cases (up to 120 MN) induced by the other magnet components. He has also served as a reviewer

on DOE PDR and FDR level design reviews for the NSTX upgrade. In 2016, he was tasked as the Design Assurance Team Lead and

now has analysis responsibility for the other USITER systems in addition to magnets, including vacuum, ICH and ECH heating

systems, disruption mitigation and cooling water.

He is currently the treasurer for the 2019 IEEE 28th Symposium on Fusion Engineering (SOFE).

Statement: I am interested in serving on this committee as a way to broaden my understanding and continue my ongoing education in

the area of fusion energy technologies and applications. Having spent the bulk of my career in fusion, I feel that my experience in this

area will be useful to the committee as it continues to evolve and grow in the future.

TREY GEBHART (M’18) received his bachelors and masters in mechanical engineering from Virginia Tech in 2011 and 2013 with

a heavy emphasis in plasma and nuclear engineering. He received his PhD in nuclear engineering from the University of Florida in

2016. The majority of his PhD work was conducted at ORNL on a pulsed plasma source that he designed to produce ELM-like pulses.

While conducting his PhD research, he was involved with the pellet injection technology laboratory at ORNL working on basic

research on shattered pellet systems for disruption mitigation activities. He has since been hired as a postdoc to continue his work in

the area of pellet injection. His present work involves the development of scientific tools for the advancement of pellet injection

technology for fueling, ELM pacing, and disruption mitigation applications.

While at Virginia Tech, he was the chair of the student section of ANS (2011-2014) and very heavily involved in the student section

committee of ANS national. He is currently the technical program co-chair of TOFE 2018, which is embedded in the 2018 winter

ANS national meeting.

Statement: I have been involved in ANS for years and I believe that serving on the FTC will help broaden my perspective the various

on professional organizations in the fusion technology community. While on the FTC, I will do my best to promote forward thinking

and provide insights on the perspective of young scientists in our field. I plan to use my ANS connections to bridge the gap between

the two societies to enable a more unified fusion technology community.

ANKITA JARIWALA (M’18) earned her Bachelor of Engineering - Production Engineering (Equivalent to B.S.- Mechanical) in

1999, from Saurashtra University in India. She began her career as a Planning Engineer at Universal Orthosytems, India in 2000. She

worked as a Design engineer with leading engineering companies such as Engineering Technique and Larsen and Toubro (L&T), a

global engineering conglomerate in India, till 2004.

She came to the USA in 2005 and started working as an on-site engineer for L&T at Kenworth Trucks, in Seattle. She was a team

member of Kenworth’s product upgrade for “Year 2007 Truck” models, where she contributed in improving tje wiring harness layout

to reduce installation time and increased productivity. In 2007 she worked as L&T’s onsite engineer at UTC Powers, a manufacture of

fuel cell power plants. As a team-member of the stationary power plant development group, she generated trade studies of different

plant layouts.

Her journey with alternate energy continued when I started working at Princeton Plasma Physics lab in 2009, as a Designer, for

Plasma Facing Components (PFC) for NSTX-U. After successfully completion of tasks on the NSTX-U project in 2013 she started

working as a Port Integrator for US-ITER. She was responsible for the design and integration of two US-ITER upper ports. She

interfaced with teams from four different countries who have diagnostic systems in US Ports. She is currently working as a design

engineer for the PFCs for the NSTX Recovery project. Apart from designing tiles, she is also helping with testing of different grades

of graphite to identify a suitable tile material for the PFCs.

Statement: As a strong supporter of “Women in Engineering”, I volunteer in school events and Girls Scouts events to get more and

more girls interested in STEM. I also volunteer for the Young Women’s conference at Princeton and in PPPL’s science outreach

programs.

I would like to serve as committee member of the Fusion Technology Committee (FTC), so I can contribute in bringing those in this

field together and spread the knowledge. By being on this committee I can not only help in organizing various events for FTC, but can

also work on inspiring more women to consider Fusion as a career choice. I understand that it requires a lot of effort from many

people to organize symposium/ conferences and I assure you that with my 8+ years of experience working on Fusion and volunteering

for STEM, I will be a good addition to the committee.

ANDREI KHODAK (M’18) received a M.Sc. degree in engineering physics and the Ph.D. degree in physics and mathematics from

St. Petersburg State Polytechnic University, Saint Petersburg, Russia, in 1988 and 1991, respectively. He has held various research

and engineering positions, related to fluid mechanics and heat transfer. He has been with the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory,

Princeton, NJ, USA, since 2010, where he is involved in multi-physics modeling, including plasma simulation, magneto-

hydrodynamics, computational fluid dynamics, turbulence modeling, and heat and mass transfer.

Below is the list of some of the fusion related projects he has worked on:

Project lead for NSTX high heat flux plasma facing components

Performed coupled structural, thermal, electrical and magnetic field analysis of the coils for new experimental nuclear fusion

devices, including ITER CS and TF insert coils

Magneto Hydro Dynamics flow simulations for blanket and divertor flows of future fusion devices

Two-phase reacting flow simulations for tritium breeding blankets

High-collisional plasma simulations for nano-particle production and MHD generators

Conjugated heat transfer, computational fluid dynamics and non-linear structural analysis for ITER diagnostics first wall

Designed and analyzed high heat load components for DIII-D neutral beams

Statement: Serving on the FTC will allow me to help advance fusion technology development by facilitating the exchange of

information.

INGO KUEHN (M’18) studied civil and structural engineering at the University of Technology in Karlsruhe and the University of

Technology RWTH in Aachen, Germany from 1992-1999 where he received the Diplom-Ingenieur (Masters Degree). He received

certification as a Project Management Professional (PMP) from the Project Management Institute Pennsylvania (US) in 2018.

His fusion-specific professional experience derives from work on ITER as follows:

Design engineer of the ITER vacuum vessel including the integration and configuration control of the interfacing components such

as the blanket modules, divertor, vacuum vessel thermal shield and toroidal field magnet system

Area Manager of Tokamak, Diagnostic and Tritium buildings

Definition and control of the Configuration Management Model (CMM) baseline of the Tokamak Complex

Definition and control of the building interfaces concerning the embedded plates and openings

Panel member of various plant systems and civil works design reviews ranging from conceptual design up to manufacturing

readiness reviews

Plant Integration Team coordinator for all ITER buildings

Preparation of the Engineering Work packages for the plant systems to launch the installation on ITER site

His general skills include civil and structural engineering, design of nuclear fusion plant systems and components, design integration

of in-cryostat & ex-cryostat systems and components, configuration management of nuclear fusion devices, radiation shielding in

nuclear fusion devices, nuclear safety requirements in Tokamak fusion devices.

Ingo has served on the organizing committee of several SOFE conferences beginning in 2011.

Statement: Due to the wide knowledge and experience I have gathered on the ITER project from the different design phases of

systems/components and civil works up to the construction phase I am confident that I can bring added value to the Fusion

Technology Committee.

GREGORY WALLACE (M’15) Dr. Wallace holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) and a

PhD in Applied Plasma Physics from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He was subsequently hired as a postdoctoral

researcher, then as a research scientist at MIT.

Dr. Wallace is an expert in the plasma physics and related technology of high power microwaves in the lower hybrid range of

frequencies (~5 GHz) for steady-state tokamak sustainment. His doctoral thesis work was conducted on the Alcator C-Mod tokamak

at MIT, where his experiments with lower hybrid current drive (LHCD) at high density motivated follow-on joint experiments at Tore

Supra, JET, EAST, and FTU. Dr. Wallace’s current research is focused on advanced current drive actuators applicable to future

burning plasma devices, particularly the design of novel antenna structures suitable for installation on the high field side wall of a

tokamak. Dr. Wallace currently participates in experimental collaborations domestically (DIII-D) and in Europe (WEST) and Asia

(EAST).

Statement: I hope to encourage more engagement with “early career" fusion scientists and engineers who will be the leaders in our

field as we approach the era of burning plasmas. I also would like to raise awareness of fusion technology issues within the fusion

physics community though my role as Plasma-Wave Interaction group leader within the US Burning Plasma Organization (USBPO),

and vice-versa.

YUHU ZHAI (M’18) is a senior mechanical engineer at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory. He received the M. Sc. and Ph.D.

from the University of Florida in Gainesville, FL in 2001 and 2003 respectively with a major in Engineering Mechanics and minor in

Electrical and Computer Engineering. He worked as a chief design engineer for the North China Electric Power Design Institute on

the design and construction of thermal power plants in Beijing before coming to the US. He was a postdoctoral research associate in

the Electrical and Computer Engineering of Duke University from 2003 to 2006, focused on space plasma physics and remote sensing

of the Earth’s magnetosphere. He became a scientist and superconducting magnet design engineer at the National High Magnetic Field

Laboratory, on the research faculty of Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL since 2006 where he developed the Florida Electro-

Mechanical Cable Model for understanding performance degradation of Nb3Sn cable-in-conduit conductors (CICCs) under thermal

and mechanical loading. He joined Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) in 2010 and became chief analyst for the design of

ITER diagnostic first wall and led the multi-physics engineering analysis effort for US ITER diagnostics and port plug engineering.

He was also involved in the final design of ITER in-vessel coils and became an expert in plasma disruption electromagnetic

simulations for component design of the NSTX upgrade project at PPPL. He has authored or co-authored over 50 refereed journal

papers and conference contributions.

Statement: Nuclear fusion is one of the most promising options for a continuous energy source and the future of carbon-free energy

for our ever-increasing global energy demand. To advance fusion technology toward fusion power beyond burning plasma requires

significant science and technology innovations, in pursue of the transformative enabling capabilities such as high-temperature

superconductors (HTS) for compact fusion and liquid metal walls for plasma facing components. The breadth and depth of my

engineering and plasma physics background with years of practical experience in superconducting magnet design and multi-physics

analysis for the design integration of plasma facing components (ITER diagnostic first walls and port plug engineering) will bring

unique contributions to the IEEE Fusion Technology Committee (FCC). My main objectives to better serve the community if elected

on the FTC standing committee include:

• Advance understanding of technology integration with burning plasma for fusion

• Pursue opportunities to close gap between HTS innovation and fusion magnets

• Increase emphasis on bridging physics and technology gaps for compact fusion

• Promote strong national and international collaborations on fusion technology

Representing PPPL, I participated actively in the past and gave talks at the biennial Symposium on Fusion Engineering (SOFE)

meetings and more recently, involved in the US fusion community input meetings organized by the US Fusion Energy Science

Advisory Committee (FESAC). I will provide my professional service to the fusion community for organizing the biennial

Symposium on Fusion Engineering and support the IEEE USA Energy Policy committee in the preparation of energy-related white

papers if selected as a member of the FTC.

HAN ZHANG (M’18) received her Bachelor and Master degrees in Mechanical Engineering from Tsinghua University (China) in

1997 and 2000 and PhD degree from National University of Singapore in 2004. Then she worked at GE global research center on the

R&D of MRI superconducting magnet and permanent magnet module for 2.5 years. Since 2008, she is a project engineer at Princeton

Plasma Physics Lab, mainly working on electromagnetic/structural/thermal analyses using ANSYS. She did eddy current analysis for

NCSX modular coil winding forms, thermal/structural analyses for CMOD, EM/structural/thermal analyses for NSTX upgrade,

thermal/structural simulations for W7x scraper elements, vibration and structural analyses for ITER port plugs and ITER ICH etc.

Statement: Conferences provide an excellent opportunity to develop contacts and to network between different institutes and

organizations. There are various conferences/Exhibitions for fusion internationally. The bigger communities like IEEE NPSS make it

happen more often. Conferences like SOFE and ICOPS are such a huge opportunity for anyone to learn and actually explore the realm

of fusion engineering and plasma science.

In my understanding, as a committee member to organize the conference successfully, the most important are as follows:

1. Keep myself informed about the latest developments in our field and related areas, mainly in fusion machines and component and

analysis. “Let noble thoughts come to us from all directions.”

2. Equip myself with Networking. Help the attendees of the conferences to present their works, including scientists, entrepreneurs,

engineers and even students to come to these conferences and presents. Provide help to current conference activities, future conference

organizations and plans or other issues like coordinating publications etc.

3. It also broadens my own depth of knowledge relating to that field by updating myself with recent advancement with technologies.