Biography

Robert J. Nemanich is Regents’ Professor of Physics at Arizona State University. He received BS and MS degrees at Northern Illinois University and PhD from the University of Chicago. Prior to joining ASU he was a senior member of the research staff at Xerox PARC and professor at North Carolina State University. He is a Fellow of the Materials Research Society and has served as President of MRS. He is a Fellow of the American Physics Society and has served as Chair of the Division of Materials Physics. He was the Editor-in-Chief of Diamond and Related Materials. He has used surface science, surface microscopy and optical techniques to study interface phenomena, and his current research is related to energy and electronics applications of diamond, GaN, polar oxides and other wide and Ultra wide bandgap materials.