IEEE Senior Member | IEEE Council on Superconductivity

Senior Member is the highest grade for which IEEE members can apply. IEEE members can "self-nominate", or be "nominated", for Senior Member grade. Prospective members who would like to apply directly for Senior Member grade must first join IEEE and then submit the Senior Member application form. An IEEE Member Number is required on the Senior Member application.

Benefits of Senior membership:

Recognition: The professional recognition of your peers for technical and professional excellence.
Leadership eligibility: Senior members are eligible to hold executive IEEE volunteer positions.
Ability to refer other candidates: Senior members can serve as a reference for other applicants for Senior membership.

IEEE CSC Senior Members are listed below by award year.

Prize:

In addition to your new benefits, the following rewards are sent to you via postal mail:
Complimentary Society Voucher: You may use this voucher to join one new IEEE Society.
Senior Member plaque: An engraved plaque you can proudly display to colleagues, clients, and employers. The plaque, an attractive fine wood with bronze engraving, is sent approximately eight weeks after elevation.
Review panel: Senior members are invited to be on the panel to review Senior member applications.
Letter of Commendation: A letter of commendation on the achievement of Senior member grade will be sent to your employer (upon request.)
Announcements: Announcement of your elevation can be made in section/society and/or local newsletters, newspapers, and notices.

Eligibility:

To be eligible for application or nomination, candidates must:

Be engineers, scientists, educators, technical executives, or originators in IEEE-designated fields;
Have experience reflecting professional maturity;
Have been in professional practice for at least ten years (with some credit for certain degrees);
Show significant performance over a period of at least five of their years in professional practice

Application Details:

Prospective members who would like to apply directly for Senior Member grade must first join IEEE and then submit the Senior Member application form. An IEEE Member Number is required on the Senior Member application. The Senior Member portal may not be accessible for 24 hours if you have joined or renewed your IEEE membership. There is no additional fee to apply for Senior Member grade.

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2015

Boris Karasik

Alan Kleinsasser

Ashok Mittal

Behnam Mohammadi-Ivatloo

Karen Pedersen

2014

Richard Arsenault

Henrique Boneti

Harry Braunstein

Erik DeBenedictis

Dongmei Han

Congzheng Han

Alan Kadin

Abdel Rahman Khatib

Chunhua Liu

John Michaels

David Mindham

Antonio Morandi

8 (Africa, Europe, Middle East)

Biography

Antonio Morandi holds a PhD in Electrical Engineering. Since 2006 he has been with the Department of Electrical, Electronic and Information Engineering where is appointed professor of Elements of Electrical Engineering, Electric Energy Storage and Applied Superconductivity. He is also supervisor of PhD programs on Applied Superconductivity. His research interests are on power applications of High-Temperature Superconductors and advanced energy systems. He has coordinated several research projects in this field funded by Public Agencies and by private companies and has contributed to the prototyping of superconducting power apparatus (FCL and SMES) and to the development of modelling and design tools. Antonio Morandi is the author of about 50 technical papers published in international journals and conferences. He is the inventor of two patents. He is a reviewer of research projects in the energy sector for the European Commission, the Italian Ministry of Education, Universities, and Research and foreign research institutes. He has given several invited talks at international conferences and research associations and has moderated several technical discussions. He is a member of the Italian mirror Committee IEC TC90 – Superconductivity and is a member of the International Steering Committee on HTS Modeling. He has been a member of program committees in international conferences. He has been the chairman of the 5th International Workshop on Numerical Modelling of High-Temperature Superconductors, Bologna-Italy, 2016. Antonio Morandi is a member of the ESAS board. He is a senior member of IEEE and serves as a technical editor for IEEE Transaction on Applied Superconductivity.

Affiliation(s)

University of Bologna

Italy

Adebowale Onifade

Henryk Piekarz

Horst Rogalla

5 (Southwestern U.S.)

Website

Biography

Dr. Horst Rogalla was appointed as an IEEE CSC Distinguished Lecturer in 2013. Dr. Rogalla was born in Germany in 1947, studied physics and mathematics in Münster and did his habilitation in Giessen, both in Germany. After 2 years in the group of Prof. Tinkham in Harvard, he accepted in 1987 a professorship in Low-Temperature Physics at the University of Twente in the Netherlands from which he retired recently.

In his time at the University of Twente, he was Director of the Material Science Institute CMO for a number of years and a founding member of the MESA+ micro-/nano-technology institute. In the European Community, he was a member of the board of the Network of Excellence in Superconductivity SCENET and director of the European Network PiShift. He was a founding member of the European Society of Applied Superconductivity ESAS and the European Foundry Network FLUXONICS. He also organized major conferences in Superconductivity and Superconducting Electronics and many national and international workshops. Currently, he is a Research Professor at the University of Colorado and a scientist at NIST.

In his scientific career, he worked on the materials' properties of superconductors, their deposition as thin films and their application in Superconducting Electronics. Before the finding of High-Temperature Superconductivity (HTS), he worked on the application of Nb3Ge nano bridge Josephson-junctions in Superconducting Electronics operated in liquid hydrogen. After the finding of HTS, he invented the HTS ramp-type Josephson junction and developed with his co-workers in Twente an HTS integration technique, which resulted in superconducting circuits with up to 4 superconducting layers. This technique was successfully applied to HTS Superconducting Electronics devices. Later on, he was involved among others in the development of sd-wave Josephson junctions based on Nb/YBCO ramp-type junctions, which allowed to realize and apply π- Josephson junctions, in the development of integrated micro-coolers and the application of Nb-based Josephson junctions in highly sensitive magnetic sensors for biomagnetism and gravitation wave detectors.

Currently, he is working on noise thermometry using normal and superconducting electronics and also on arrays of YBCO split-ring resonators for cloaking applications.

He is a long-time member of the IEEE receiving the IEEE Max Swerdlow Award for Sustained Service to the Applied Superconductivity Community in 2011. In 2013, he was awarded an honorary lifetime voting membership on the board of the European Society of Applied Superconductivity (ESAS).

Affiliation(s)

National Institute of Standards & Technology (NIST)

Jeff Tallon

10 (Asia and Pacific)

Biography

Dr. Jeff Tallon CNZM, FRSNZ, HonFIPENZ is Senior Principal Scientist at Robinson Research Institute, Victoria University of Wellington and, until recently, was concurrently Professor of Physics at Victoria University. He is internationally known for his research and discoveries in high-Tc superconductors (HTS), both fundamental and applied, leading to commercialization through the company HTS-110 Ltd. With colleagues, he secured European and US patents for Bi2Sr2Ca2Cu3O10 and a number of other HTS and over the past 25 years has led research in materials science, processing, flux pinning, novel superconducting materials and wire development. His more fundamental studies have focused on thermodynamics, magnetism, spectroscopy and electronic transport properties of HTS; especially in elucidating the phenomenology and nature of the once mysterious pseudogap that competes with superconductivity and which imposes severe limits on critical currents and critical fields. Dr. Tallon’s other research interests include nanotechnology, hybrid organic/inorganic materials, spin crossover materials and physics at high pressure. He has received many awards for his work, including the Rutherford Medal, the Dan Walls Medal for Physics and the inaugural New Zealand Prime Minister’s Science Medal for commercialization of fundamental science. Dr Tallon has been a frequent Visiting Professor at Cambridge University and a Visiting Fellow of Trinity College Cambridge. He has published nearly 300 papers, with a Hirsch index of 50 and total citation close to 10,000. HTS-110 manufactures magnets, NMR systems, ion-implantation equipment, current leads and coils for motors and generators – all based on HTS Dr. Jeff Tallon CNZM, FRSNZ, HonFIPENZ is Senior Principal Scientist at Robinson Research Institute, Victoria University of Wellington and, until recently, was concurrently Professor of Physics at Victoria University. He is internationally known for his research and discoveries in high-Tc superconductors (HTS), both fundamental and applied, leading to commercialization through the company HTS-110 Ltd. With colleagues, he secured European and US patents for Bi2Sr2Ca2Cu3O10 and a number of other HTS and over the past 25 years has led research in materials science, processing, flux pinning, novel superconducting materials and wire development. His more fundamental studies have focused on thermodynamics, magnetism, spectroscopy and electronic transport properties of HTS; especially in elucidating the phenomenology and nature of the once mysterious pseudogap that competes with superconductivity and which imposes severe limits on critical currents and critical fields. Dr. Tallon’s other research interests include nanotechnology, hybrid organic/inorganic materials, spin crossover materials and physics at high pressure. He has received many awards for his work, including the Rutherford Medal, the Dan Walls Medal for Physics and the inaugural New Zealand Prime Minister’s Science Medal for commercialization of fundamental science. Dr. Tallon has been a frequent Visiting Professor at Cambridge University and a Visiting Fellow of Trinity College Cambridge. He has published nearly 300 papers, with a Hirsch index of 50 and total citation close to 10,000. HTS-110 manufactures magnets, NMR systems, ion-implantation equipment, current leads and coils for motors and generators – all based on HTS technology.technology.

Affiliation(s)

Robinson Research Institute

Australia

Jok Tin Tan

Allen Windhorn

2013

Ayyoub Akbari-Moghanjoughi

Vasudeva Atluri

Mark Bird

George Clark

Debangshu Dey

David W. Doll

Steven Eckroad

Anandakumar Haldorai

Amol Inamdar

Balamurugan K

Dmitry Kholodnyak

Cij Pearl Kurian

Marc Matsuura

David F. Sutter

2012

Lance Cooley

3 (Southeastern U.S.)

Biography

Lance Cooley is a Florida State University professor in the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering, Department of Mechanical Engineering, in addition to his MagLab roles as director of the Applied Superconductivity Center (ASC) and an associate lab director.

Cooley began his career in superconducting materials in 1986 at the University of Wisconsin – Madison, in the Applied Superconductivity Center under the direction of Prof. David Larbalestier. Lance’s early career, starting with his Ph.D. thesis, explored the ultimate limits of electric current in superconducting wires used for magnets. His thesis was awarded the Materials Research Society Graduate Award for the construction of periodic arrangements of flux-pinning centers at nanometer scale in superconducting wires. He earned a National Research Council Postdoctoral Fellowship at the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Boulder, Colorado, and later returned to Madison, Wisconsin, as a member of the research faculty to further investigate limits of superconductors.

The discovery of superconductivity in magnesium diboride in 2001 prompted Cooley to move to Brookhaven National Laboratory, where he eventually became head of the Superconducting Materials Group. He moved to Fermilab in 2007 to lead the SRF Materials Group, and later the Superconducting Materials Department. During this time, he coordinated external programs at multiple universities, laboratories and industry to improve performance of superconducting radio-frequency cavities and superconducting wires. This led to specifications and international standards related to niobium commerce, for which he received the International Electrotechnical Commission 1906 Award. He joined Florida State University and MagLab in 2017. He is also the manager of conductor acquisition for the Large Hadron Collider High-Luminosity Accelerator Upgrade Project as well as the head of Conductor Procurement and R&D for the National Magnet Development Program, both in the U.S. Department of Energy Office of High-Energy Physics.

Cooley serves as vice-president for publications for the IEEE Council on Superconductivity, which publishes the IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity. He has served on many review panels of the U.S. Department of Energy and the National Science Foundation. He is a fellow of the Institute of Physics and a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE). He has over 120 refereed publications, and has given more than 30 colloquia, plenary or public lectures.

Affiliation(s)

Florida State University

Arnaud Devred

Balbir Gill

Brett Harker

Scott Holmes

Peter J. Lee

Alfred D. McInturff

Daniel Oates

1 (Northeastern U.S.)

Biography

Dr. Daniel E. Oates is a staff member in the Quantum Information and Integrated Nanosystems Group. His current research interests are microwave-frequency superconducting electronics, specifically applications in receiver front ends to reduce noise figure and interference. He is also active in characterization of superconducting materials for microwave applications using resonator techniques he pioneered that have been used to understand the basic physics of high-temperature superconductors.

Prior to joining Lincoln Laboratory, Dr. Oates was an Alexander von Humboldt fellow at the University of Bonn, Germany. He was also employed at Bell Laboratories for several years. Research during his first 11 years at Lincoln Laboratory was in the field of microwave acoustics. He invented and developed temperature-stable surface-acoustic-wave dispersive-delay lines. He also developed surface-acoustic-wave programmable transversal filters in which surface-wave devices were coupled with silicon integrated circuits.

Dr. Oates has published as author or coauthor 86 papers in the field of superconductivity and related areas. He holds seven patents and has written three book chapters. He has given numerous invited talks at the international conferences on superconductivity and has served on the organizing committees for several important conferences. He organized two Materials Research Society Symposia and was the general chair for the 2002 Symposium on High Temperature Superconductors in High Frequency Fields. He is a Life Fellow of the IEEE, serves on the Administrative Committee of the IEEE Council on Superconductivity, and is an associate editor of the IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity.

Dr. Oates received his PhD degree in atomic physics from MIT and his BA degree in physics, with honors, from Yale University.