CURRICULUM VITAE

STEPHEN GAROFF

 

Business Address

Department of Physics

Carnegie Mellon University

Pittsburgh, PA,  15213

Office: (412) 268-6877

Fax: (412) 681-0648

e-mail: sg2e@andrew.cmu.edu

Web Site: http://info.phys.cmu.edu/interfacial/interfacial_index.html

 

Professional Experience

1988-present

            Professor

            Department of Physics, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA

 (Courtesy Professor of Chemical Engineering and Material Science)

            Primary areas of research:

                  -wetting and spreading of fluids on simple and heterogeneous surfaces

                  -interfacial structure of simple and complex fluids

                  -electrophoresis of complex particles

                  -microscopic origins of friction

1994-1999

            Associate Head, Department of Physics, Carnegie Mellon University

1986-1988

            Research Scientist

            Schlumberger-Doll Research, Ridgefield, CT

            Primary areas of research:

                  -wetting and spreading of fluids on simple and heterogeneous surfaces

                  -interfacial structure of simple and complex fluids

1977-1986

            Research Scientist

            Exxon Research and Engineering Company, Annandale, NJ

            Primary areas of research:

                  -optical probes of finely dispersed materials, thin films, carbonaceous

                  materials, and interfacial regions

                  -electrodynamics of rough metal surfaces

                  -fluorescent solar collectors

                  -molecular structure of organic monolayers

                  -microscopic origins of wetting, and  friction at organic surfaces

1973-1977

            Research Assistant

            Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

            Areas of research:

                  -structure, optical properties, and phase transitions of liquid crystals

1974-1975

            Teaching Assistant

            Harvard University

 

Education

Ph.D.     Applied Physics, 1977

            Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

            Thesis Title:  Ferroelectric Liquid Crystals

            Advisor:  Robert B. Meyer

S.M.Applied Physics, 1974

            Harvard University

B.S.    Physics, 1972

            Yale University, New Haven, CT

 

Awards             

Elected Fellow, American Physical Society, 1998

Harvard University:

            Xerox Corporation Fellowship, 1975-1976

Yale University:

            Phi Beta Kappa

            Graduated magna cum laude with honors in Physics

 

Memberships  

American Physical Society

American Chemical Society

 

Conference Organizing and Professional Activities

Program Committee--American Chemical Society Symposium on Photoprocesses at Solid Surfaces, March, 1983

Organizing Committee--International Symposium on Complex and Supermolecular Fluids, June, 1985

Panel Member--Department of Energy Materials Science Panel on Organic Thin Films, September, 1986

Chairman--Gordon Conference on Organic Thin Films, February, 1988

Panel Member--Department of Energy Materials Science Panel on The Liquid-Solid Interface and Its Role in Ceramic Processing, September, 1988

Program Committee--47th Annual Pittsburgh Diffraction Conference, November, 1989

Organizing Committee--Pennsylvania Summer Surface Science Workshop, August, 1989 and August 1991

Panel Member--Workshop on Interfacial Phenomena and Rheology of Fluid Dispersions sponsored by NSF and U.S. Bureau of Engraving and Printing, January 1991

Panel Member -- NSF/SBIR Proposal Review, 1992, 1993

Organizer -- Future Scientists Day at March Meeting of the American Physical Society, March 1994.

Co-Founder -- Pittsburgh Public School/Carnegie Mellon Outreach Program for Mentoring in Science

Panel Member -- NSF Young Investigator Proposal Review, 2000

Co-Chair -- 2001 American Chemical Society Colloid and Surface Science Symposium

Member -- Microgravity Science and Applications Council, Universities Space Research Association, 2002-2005

 

Consulting (1988-present)

                        Schlumberger-Doll Research

                        Aristech Chemicals

                        PPG Inc.

                        Alcoa Laboratories

                        Rockwell International

                        Graphic Arts Technical Foundation

                        Air Products

                        SEMATECH