Biography

David B. Graves joined the University of California at Berkeley Department of Chemical Engineering in 1986 after receiving his PhD (Chemical Engineering) from the University of Minnesota. He retired from UCB in May 2020 and joined the Princeton Plasma Physics Lab, serving as Associate Lab Director from 2020 - 2022. He is also Professor in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at Princeton University. His research interests are in plasma materials processing, biomedical and other applications of non-equilibrium, low temperature plasma phenomena. His group studies the physics, chemistry and biology of chemically active low temperature plasmas.

David Graves is a fellow of the American Vacuum Society and the Institute of Physics and was the recipient of the Electrochemical Society Young Author Award, the NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award, the Tegal Plasma Thinker Award, and the 3rd annual Plasma Prize of the Plasma Science and Technology Division of the AVS. He was named the first Lam Research Distinguished Chair in Semiconductor Processing at UC Berkeley for 2011-16. He received the Allis Prize for the Study of Ionized Gases from the American Physical Society in 2014 and the 2017 International Symposium of Dry Processes Nishizawa Award. In 2022, he received the Plasma Materials Science Hall of Fame Prize, from the Center for LTP Sciences, Nagoya, Japan. In 2024 he received the ISPLasma Prize.