Jerry Tersoff  Jerry Tersoff photo         

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Research Staff Member
Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY USA
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Curriculum Vitae

 

Education:

B.A. in Physics (High Honors), May 1977, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore PA

Ph.D. in Physics, June 1982, University of California, Berkeley CA.

 

Employment:

 

AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill NJ 07974

      Postdoctoral Member of Technical Staff, 1982-1984

IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights NY 10598

      Research Staff Member, 1984-present.

 

Awards:

Peter Mark Memorial Award, American Vacuum Society, 1988

Materials Research Society Medal, 1996

Davisson-Germer Prize, American Physical Society, 1997

Medard Welch Award, American Vacuum Society, 2007

Member, National Academy of Engineering, 2018

Materials Research Society Von Hippel Award,  2019

 

Fellow:

American Physical Society

American Vacuum Society

Materials Research Society

 

Citations (Web of Science):

Over 39,000 citations;  h-index = 88;

          9 papers cited over 1000 times, all as first or sole author;

          74 papers cited over 100 times.

 

Invited talks:

145 invited talks at conferences and workshops, including 9 Keynote or Plenary talks.

 

Misc:

Chair, Materials Research Society Medal Award Committee, 1999-2002

Charter member, IBM Materials Research Council, 1999-2000

Editorial Board, J. Applied Physics & Applied Physics Letters, 2001-2003

NSF site visit, Harvard University MRSEC, February 2001

Advisory Board, Harvard Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center, 2002-4

Board of Directors, Materials Research Society, 2003-2005

Advisory Board, University of Maryland MRSEC, 2008-10

Advisory Board, University of Wisconsin MRSEC, 2013