Dan van der Weide

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Daniel van der Weide received a BSEE from the University of Iowa in 1987, and a Master’s and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University in 1989 and 1993, respectively. He held summer positions with Lawrence-Livermore National Laboratory and Hewlett-Packard, and full-time positions with Motorola as an Engineer and Watkins-Johnson Company as a Member of the Technical Staff. From 1993-95 he worked as a post-doctoral researcher with the Max-Planck-Institut für Festkörperforschung (Solid State Research) in Stuttgart, Germany, after which he joined the University of Delaware Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering as an assistant and associate professor and director of the Center for Nanomachined Surfaces. In 1999 he joined the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison as an associate professor, and was made full professor in 2004. He received the National Science Foundation CAREER and PECASE awards in 1997 and the Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Program award in 1998; he is a University of Wisconsin Vilas Associate for 2002-04. His current research involves ultrafast electronics, low-dimensional electron systems and the application of high frequency techniques in biotechnology. He is the Principal Investigator on a 2003 AFOSR MURI overseen by Lt Col Gernot Pomrenke entitled, “Nanoprobe Tools for Molecular Spectroscopy and Control.”

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