Sorin Cristoloveanu

Dr. Cristoloveanu received the PhD (1976) in Electronics and the French Doctorat ès-Sciences in physics (1981) from the National Polytechnic Institute, Grenoble (INPG), France. He joined the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) and became a Senior Scientist in 1982 and a Director of Research in 1989. In 1989, he joined the University of Maryland, College Park, as an Associate Professor for one sabbatical year. He also worked at JPL (Pasadena), Motorola (Phoenix), and the Universities of Florida (Gainesville) and Nashville. From 1993 to 1999, he served as the director of the LPCS Laboratory of INPG. Between 1999-2000, he was in charge of the creation of the Center for Advanced Projects in Microelectronics (CPMA Grenoble). He is the author or co-author of more than 400 technical journal papers and communications at international conferences (including 80 invited contributions). He is the author or the editor of 13 books, and he has organized 9 international conferences. His expertise is in the area of the electrical characterization and modeling of semiconductor materials and devices, with special interest for silicon-on-insulator structures. With his students, he has received 5 Best Paper Awards, an Academy of Science Award (1995), and the Electronics Division Award of the Electrochemical Society (2002). He is a Fellow of IEEE, a Fellow of the Electrochemical Society, and Editor of Solid-State Electronics.