Biographical Information for IXS Election Nominees

June, 2000

Chair, James Penner-Hahn
Position 1 - Europe, Dimitri Arvantis;
Position 3 - North America, Yves Idzerda;
Position 6 - Japan, Iwao Watanabe;
Position 7 - At Large, Andrea Di Cicco

Vice Chair (vote for one)

• Yves IDZERDA. Head, Artificially Structured Materials and Non-linear Physics, Naval Research Laboratory, USA. BS Washington University (1981), Ph.D. University of Maryland (1986). Interplay between magnetic and chemical structure for magnetic surfaces, interfaces, and ultrathin films and multilayers.
• Tsun-Kong (T.K.) SHAM. Professor of Chemistry, The University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada. Scientific Director, Canadian Synchrotron Radiation Facility (at Aladdin), Stoughton WI, USA. Senior Scientific Consultant, The Canadian Light Source, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada. B.Sc. The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1971. Ph.D. The University of Western Ontario, 1975. Synchrotron radiation spectroscopy, electronic structures and chemical properties of low dimension materials and nanostructures.

Treasurer (vote for one)

• Hiroyuki OYANAGI. Assistant Director, Physical Science Division, Electromechanical Laboratory, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan. B.S. University of Tokyo (1975), Ph.D. University of Tokyo (1980). Synchrotron radiation X-ray spectroscopy and exotic materials science, Local structure of electron-correlated system and photo-induced phenomena.

Position 2 - Europe (vote for one)

• Wolfram MEYER-KLAUCKE. Staff scientist, European Molecular Biological Laboratory, Outstation Hamburg, Germany. Diploma (B.S.) Hamburg University (1992), Ph.D. Hamburg University (1996). Catalytic mechanism of metalloenzymes: Structure - function relation.
• Sakura PASCARELLI. Scientist responsible of the Dispersive XAS beamline at the ESRF, Grenoble, France. Laurea in Fisica, Universita di Roma "La Sapienza", Rome, Italy (1989), Ph.D. Universite Joseph Fourier, Grenoble France (1997). Structure of bulk and epitaxially strained semiconductor alloys.

Position 4 - North America (vote for one)

• Britt HEDMAN. Senior Research Associate, Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory and Department of Chemistry, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA. B.S. Umea University (1971), M.S. Umea University (1972), Ph.D. Umea University (1978). Understanding structure and function of metalloenzyme active sites through use of x-ray absorption spectroscopy. Methology and instrumentation development for synchrotron radiation research in structural molecular biology.
• Stephen WASSERMAN. Associate Director, Commercial Collaborative Access Team, Advanced Photon Source, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL USA. B.S. Yale University (1979), M.A. (1981) and Ph.D. (1988) Harvard University. Speciation and reactivity of metal ions at native and chemically modified mineral interfaces. Development of principal component analysis and other methods for interpretation of XAS data.

Postion 5 - Other Regions (vote for one)

• Biju Raja SEKHAR. Member of the Faculty at Institute of Physics, Marg, Bhubaneswar, India. M.Sc. (1988), Ph.D. (1992). XANES, EXAFS, and Photoelectron Spectroscopy on HTSC materials, CMR compounds and nano clusters.
• Helio C.N. TOLENTINO. Researcher in Physics, Head of the X-ray spectroscopy and Instrumentation group at LNLS, Brazilian Synchrotron Light Laboratory (Laboratorio Nacional de Luz Sincrotron/LNLS), Campinas-SP, Brazil. B.S. Parana State University Universidade Federal do Parana) (1984), Ph.D. Universite de Paris Sud, LURE, Orsay, France (1990). Structure and electronic properties of magnetic materials; X-ray magnetic circular dichroism; Synchrotron Instrumentation.

Positions 8 and 9 - At large (vote for two)

• Simon R. BARE. Research & Development Associate, UOP LLC, Des Plaines, IL, USA. B.Sc. University of Liverpool, UK (1979), Ph.D. University of Liverpool, UK (1982). Research interests include atomic level structure of catalysts, molecular level understanding of catalytic processes, and the application of synchrotron radiation based techniques (XAFS, QEXAFS, DEXAFS, micro-XANES) to probe catalyst structure especially under reactions.
• Masaharu NOMURA. Professor of Photon Factory, Institute of Materials Structure Science, KEK, Japan. B.S. Shizuoka University(1972), Ph.D. University of Tokyo (1982). Development of reliable XAFS system, time-resolved XAFS method and extend the detection limit of fluorescence XAFS.
• James G. TOBIN. Staff Scientist, Chemistry and Materials Science Directorate, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, USA. B.S. Chemistry, University of Wisconsin-Madison(1978), Ph.D. Physical Chemistry, University of California-Berkeley (1983). Structure-Property Relationships in Complex Systems such as Nanomagnetics, Actinides and High Temperature Superconductors.
• Toshihiko YOKOYAMA. Associate Professor of Chemistry, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan; B.S. The University of Tokyo (1983), M.S. The University of Tokyo (1985) Ph.D. The University of Tokyo (1990). Structure, dynamics and magnetism of surfaces and bulk materials.