Victor L. Granatstein received the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Columbia University, NY in 1963. He was a research scientist at Bell Telephone Laboratories from 1964 to 1972. From 1972 to 1983, he was with the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory where he was Head of the High Power Electromagnetic Radiation Branch. He joined the Maryland faculty in 1983 and was appointed Director of the Institute for Plasma Research (now IREAP) from 1988 to 1998. In 1994, he spent a semester as a Visiting Professor at the University of Tel Aviv, Israel. He is presently leading studies of electromagnetic radiation from relativistic electron beam and advanced concepts in millimeter-wave tubes, especially gyrotron amplifiers, and the effect of high power microwaves on integrated electronics. He has coauthored more than 200 research papers in scientific journals and has coedited three books. He holds a number of patents on active and passive microwave devices.
Dr. Granatstein is a Life Fellow of the IEEE and a Fellow of the American Physical Society. He has received a number of major research awards including the E. O. Hulbert Annual Science Award (1979), the Superior Civilian Service Award (1990), the Captain Robert Dexter Conrad Award for scientific achievement (awarded by the Secretary of the Navy, 1981), the IEEE Plasma Science and Applications Award (1991), and the Robert L. Woods Award for Excellence in Electronics Technology (1998).
Gregory S. Nusinovich was born in Berdichev, Russia. He received the B.Sc., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees from Gorky State University, Russia, in 1967, 1968, and 1975, respectively.
In 1968, he joined the Gorky Radiophysical Research Institute. From 1977 to 1990, he was a Senior Research Scientist and Head of Research Group at the Institute of Applied Physics of the Academy of Sciences of the U.S.S.R. From 1968-1990, his scientific interests were aimed at developing high-power millimeter- and submillimeter-wave gyrotrons. In 1991, he emigrated to the United States, where he joined the research staff at the Institute for Plasma Research (presently IREAP), University of Maryland, College Park. Since 1991, he has also served as a Consultant to the Science Applications International Corporation, the Physical Science Corporation, and Omega-P, Inc. In 1996 he was a Guest Co-Editor of the Sixth Special Issue of IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science on High Power Microwave Generation and in 1999 he was a Guest Co-Editor of the Special Issue of IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science on Cyclotron Resonance Masers and Gyrotrons. He has published more than 140 papers in refereed journals. His current research interests include the study of high power electromagnetic radiation from various types of microwave sources.
Dr. Nusinovich was a member of the Scientific Council on Physical Electronics of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR. He currently serves on the Editorial Board of the IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science. He is also a Fellow of IEEE and APS.
John C. Rodgers served in the U.S. Navy from 1975 to 1981 where he worked on military satellite communications, navigation and radar systems. In 1981 he joined the Space Systems Department at Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab where he developed automated electronic and radiation testing systems for flight hardware. He received the B.S. in electrical engineering in 1987 from the University of Maryland and a Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering in 2003 from the Far Infrared Center, Fukui University. In 1985 he joined the Institute for Research in Electronics and Applied Physics where he is an associate research scientist and has served as associate director since 1996.
He has worked on the propagation and applications of intense relativistic particle beams, collective ion acceleration, large orbit gyrotrons, broadband plasma-microwave interactions, and free electron lasers. Recent activcities include development of harmonic gyro-oscillators, amplifiers, and plasma assisted microwave sources. He also leads an experimental group at IREAP studying microwave effects in high-speed communications electronics. He has authored or co-authored over 60 regular journal articles and has contributed to several books on related research topics.