Dr. Horwitz joined the Material Science and
Engineering Division at the Basic Energy Science Office of the Department of
Energy in April 2003. He received his
B.S. degree in Chemistry from the University
of
New Mexico
and his Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University
of California
at Santa Cruz. He
was a postdoctoral research fellow at Wesleyan
University
and the University
of California
at Riverside prior to
receiving a National Research Council
Fellowship to work at the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) in Washington,
DC. ..From
1989 to 2003, Dr. Horwitz was a staff member at the Naval Research Lab in the
Surface Modification Branch of the Material Science Division. His research at NRL focused on laser/material interactions relevant
to the pulsed laser deposition of multicomponent thin films.
The work at NRL included the deposition and application of electronic
ceramic materials in addition to organic and biological thin film materials.
He has served as vice chair and chair for the Gordon
Research Conference on Laser Interactions with Materials and
co-chair for the 5th and 6th International Conference
on Laser Ablation. He has published over 125 papers and is co-author
on 5 patents. He also served as NATO Program Director for a Science
for Peace project in collaboration with Armenian National Academy of
Sciences. He is a member of the
American Chemical Society, American Physical Society, and Materials Research
Society and served on the Editorial Board of Applied
Physics A
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