Emilio Mendez Named Director of Brookhaven Lab's Nanocenter
Emilio Mendez, a physics professor at Stony Brook University, has been named Director of the Center for Functional nanomaterials (CFN) at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory, effective November 1.
Currently under construction, the CFN at Brookhaven is one of five nanocenters supported by the Department of Energy and located at a national laboratory. Due to be completed by April 2007, the CFN will provide scientists from universities, industry and other laboratories with state-of-the-art facilities to study materials at nanoscale dimensions. The center is expected to eventually house about 100 researchers and support staff, and it will be used by up to 400 researchers annually, primarily from the northeastern U.S.
After earning his undergraduate degree from the University of Madrid, Spain, Mendez came to the U.S. to continue his education in physics, earning a Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1979. He then took a postdoctoral position at the IBM T. J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, New York, where he became a research staff member and eventually a member of the strategic planning group and a line manager. He joined Stony Brook University in 1995 as a physics professor, and in 2004 he became Director of the Undergraduate Program in the Department of Physics and Astronomy.
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