Dr. Steven George, Co-Founder, Member of Scientific Advisory Board

Prof. Steven M. George is Professor in the Dept. of Chemistry and Biochemistry and Dept. of Chemical and Biological Engineering at CU-Boulder. Dr. George is a world recognized expert in ALD Chemistry. He has more than 190 peer-reviewed publications in the areas of surface science, thin film growth and physical chemistry. Dr. George has received a number of awards including an NSF Presidential Young Investigator and an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellow. Dr. George served as Chair of the first American Vacuum Society Topical Conference on Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD2001) held in Monterey, California. He was also on the Conference Committees for ALD2002 in Seoul, Korea and ALD2003 in San Jose, California. He has served as Vice-Chair (2001) and Chair (2002) of the Thin Film Division of the American Vacuum Society. He was recently appointed the Program Chair for the National American Vacuum Society Meeting in November 2005 in Boston, Massachusetts. Other past organization roles include co-chairing the 1997 Gordon Conference on Chemistry of Electronic Materials. He has served as Guest Editor and Associate Editor for Chemical Reviews and has been a member of a number of national advisory boards. He also was a member of the Defense Science Study Group (1989-1991). Dr. George is a Fellow of the American Vacuum Society (2000) and a Fellow of the American Physical Society (1997). Dr. George received his B.S. in Chemistry from Yale University (1977) and his Ph.D. in Chemistry from UC – Berkeley (1983).