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Dr. Marc H. BrodskyDr. Marc H. Brodsky
Executive Director and CEO
American Institute of Physics


Welcoming Remarks

Biographical Sketch
Marc H. Brodsky is the Executive Director and CEO of the American Institute of Physics (AIP). AIP is a nonprofit member corporation of ten physics and astronomy related Societies. It has an annual budget of $68M and a combined membership of more than 125,000 scientists, engineers and students. AIP publishes and distributes journals, Physics Today and other magazines, and conference proceedings. It also provides publishing, data preparation and online platform services to scientific societies, including 95 journals that appear on the AIP Online Journal Publishing Service (ojps.aip.org). In addition to its publishing activities, AIP is a significant provider of resources for the physics community in the areas of education, history, careers, statistical surveys, public information, government affairs, industrial and other outreach programs.

Brodsky is a physicist and electronic engineer. Prior to his AIP position, he was at the IBM Watson Research Center for 25 years as a researcher (in semiconductor physics and devices), manager and executive. He received his bachelor and doctorate degrees in physics from the University of Pennsylvania. He has been an adjunct or visiting faculty or researcher at Columbia University, University of Paris, Dundee Univeristy, and the Max Planck Institute (Stuttgart). He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and the IEEE. He has published over 90 technical papers, 30 invention disclosures, edited a book on amorphous semiconductors, and co-edited another. He holds seven U.S. Patents in semiconductor technology and consumer electronics.

During 1991-92, under the auspices of the IEEE, the Sloan Foundation and IBM, Brodsky was an Executive Fellow with the Under Secretary for Technology at the U.S. Department of Commerce. While there he studied issues related to competitiveness in high technology industries requiring large capital investments and cost-efficient, volume manufacturing.

URL: http://www.aip.org

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