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New Appointments

John Vig has been appointed as the new Frequency Control Web Editor.

Andrei Kholkin has been appointed as the new Ferroelectrics Web Editor.

Upcoming Symposia

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Distinguished Lecturer

2010-2011 UFFC-S Distinguished Lecturer
Dragan Damjanovic: Piezoelectric materials - microscopic mechanisms, novel compositions and advanced applications

Dr. Damjanovic received his diploma (summa cum laude) in physics at the University of Sarajevo in 1980. From 1982 to 1987 he worked as a research assistant at Materials Research Laboratory (MRL), The Pennsylvania State University (PSU), USA, where he was awarded PhD in Ceramics Science in 1987 for his work on lead-titanate based materials for piezoelectric transducer applications. From 1987 to 1988 he worked at the Materials Research and Development Center - CIRM, Energoinvest Corp., Sarajevo. He joined again MRL at PSU in 1988 where he stayed until 1991, working on pyroelectric properties of synthetic polypeptides, piezoelectric properties of relaxor ferroelectrics, and ceramics-polymer composites, with emphasis on medical and underwater applications. In 1991, he joined the Ceramics Laboratory, Institute of Materials, at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology-EPFL. He works in the field of the piezoelectric, dielectric and ferroelectric properties of ceramics, single crystals, thick and thin films, and their applications. He was appointed lecturer in 1995, Privat Docent in 1999, adjoint scientifique in 2001, senior scientist/MER in 2006 and adjunct professor in 2008. He presently teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on electrical properties of materials and organizes experimental exercises on ceramics properties. He teaches a course on piezoelectric and ferroelectric materials at the EPFL’s doctoral school. He has authored more than 170 publications and two patents. In the last ten years he participated in or directed a dozen of Swiss and European projects. He was awarded ISIF outstanding achievement award in 2007, Ferroelectrics Recognition Award of the IEEE UFFC Society in 2009, was elected a Fellow of IEEE in 2009.

2011-2012 UFFC-S Distinguished Lecturer
Ton van der Steen: Intravascular ultrasound: assessment of atherosclerosis

Prof.dr.ir. Van der Steen received his MSc degree in Applied Physics at the Technical University in Delft in 1989 and his PhD in Medical Sciences in 1994 at the University of Nijmegen. From 1994 to 1996 he was a senior scientist at the Laboratory for Experimental Echocardiography of the Thoraxcentre and since 1997 he is the head of this laboratory. Current research interests are in vulnerable plaque detection, intravascular ultrasound, ultrasound contrast agents and transducer design for special applications, including transesophegeal, three-dimensional and harmonic imaging.
He is project leader of a national program on vulnerable plaque visualisation (ICIN32) and was appointed the 2000 NWO PIONIER Technical Sciences for Vulnerable Plaque Detection. In 2000 he was appointed Associate Professor at the Royal Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Erasmus University Rotterdam and in 2002 Professor in Biomedical Engineering in Cardiology at the Erasmus University Rotterdam and the Interuniversity Cardiology Institute of the Netherlands.
He is the treasurer of the Dutch Foundation for Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology (DFUGB), the president of the section Ultrasound Techniques of this society and the Dutch representative at the Board of Directors of the European Federation Societies in Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology (EFSUMB). He is a member of the scientific committee and/or local organisation of the semi-annual scientific meetings of the DFUGB, the IEEE Ultrasonics symposiums, the EFSUMB, Ultrasonics International, World Conference of Ultrasonics, Acoustical Imaging and the International Conferences on Ultrasound Biomicroscanning.

2012-2013 UFFC-S Distinguished Lecturer
Michael Driscoll: Low Noise Signal Generation and Verification Techniques

Michael Driscoll joined the Westinghouse Defence Centre (now part of Northrop Grumman Electronic Systems) in Baltimore in 1965 after graduating from the University of Massachusetts in Amherst. Since 1968, he has worked primarily on the design and development of low noise signal generation hardware for use in high performance radar systems and other special applications. He was a Senior Consulting Engineer at Northrop Grumman until retiring in February, 2008. He is currently a Contract Engineer, Consulting at Northrop Grumman. His responsibilities include the design and development of high stability oscillators as well as characterization and reduction of phase noise in RF signal processing components and circuits. He is a past Secretary, Treasurer, and President of the Baltimore, Washington, and Northern Virginia chapter of the UFFC. He has been a member of the IEEE Frequency Control Symposium Technical Program Committee since 1987. He is an Associate Editor and Associate Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics and Frequency Control (UFFC) and was the Conference Chair for the 2005 and 2006 IEEE International Frequency Control Symposia. In 1991, he was elected as an IEEE Fellow, cited for "Contributions to the development of lownoise acoustic resonator-stabilized oscillators". In 1997, he was the recipient of the IEEE UFFC Society CADY award, cited for Contributions to Low Noise Signal Generator Design. In 2006, he was a recipient of the Northrop Grumman Lifetime Achievement Award. He has published and presented over 60 papers in IEEE Journals and at IEEE Conferences. He has presented several IEEE Tutorials and Northrop Grumman Instructional Courses and holds 16 U.S. Patents dealing with the subject of Low Noise Signal Generation.