ALISON  A.  BASKI

EDUCATION:

1991           Ph.D. in Applied Physics, Stanford University
                   Dissertation: "Scanning Tunneling Microscopy of Metal Growth and Reconstruction on Si(100) and Si(111)"
                   Advisor:  Prof. Calvin F. Quate;  AT&T Ph.D. Fellowship
1987           B.S. in Engineering Physics, University of Colorado, Boulder

PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS:

2006-present     Chair, Virginia Commonwealth University, Dept. of Physics, Richmond, VA
2010-present     Professor, VCU Department of Physics
2001-2010         Associate Professor, VCU Department of Physics
1996-2001         Assistant Professor, VCU Dept. of Physics (joint appt. in School of Engineering)
1993-1996         NRC Research Associate, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC
1991-1993         Postdoctoral Fellow, BASF, Polymer Laboratory, Germany
1987-1991         Research Assistant, Stanford University, Dept. of Applied Physics, Stanford, CA

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS:

American Physical Society (since 1990),  AVS Science & Technology Society (1990),  Materials Research Society (2001),  American Association of Physics Teachers (1997),  Sigma Xi (1987),  Tau Beta Pi (1987)

HONORS and PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES:

Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science (2010).

Distinguished Teaching Award from the VCU College of Humanities and Sciences (2010).

Elected Board member of AVS Science & Technology Society (2008-2010); AVS Surface Science Division Executive committee (2003-08); Division Chair (2006-07); Program Chair (2005-06).

Editorial Board, Journal of Vacuum Science and Technology (2007-2010).

Elected member of AIP Media and Government Relations Advisory Committee (2009-2011).

Member of conference organizing committee for:  SPIE Integrated Optoelectronic Devices Symp. (2006-2009), Intl. Conf. on Theory of Atomic and Molecular Clusters (2007),  ISCANA conference in Richmond (2003),  III-nitride Workshop in Richmond (2002).

Served on NSF review panels for CAREER (2001, 2008), NIRT (2005), and CCLI (2004); Reviewer for funding agencies (NSF, Research Corporation, PRF); Review for journals (Phys. Rev. B, Phys. Rev. Lett., Surf. Sci., J. Vac. Sci. and Tech., Nanotechnology, Thin Solid Films).

Nominated for VCU Grace E. Harris Leadership Institute (2006).

Recipient of NSF CAREER award  (1997).

STM data featured on covers of: Ultramicroscopy, vol. 86 (2001) and Modern Physics, Bernstein, Fishbane, and Gasiorowicz, Prentice Hall, NJ, (2000); STM data included in Physics in the Twentieth Century, Abrams, Inc. (1999) and Encyclopedia of Chemical Physics and Physical Chemistry, Vol. 1:Fundamentals, Ed. J. H. Moore, N. D. Spencer.

Alan Berman Research Publication Award (Naval Research Laboratory, 1996) for Science article (1995) highlighted in Science News, “Unveiling Silicon’s New Face.”

AT&T Ph.D. Fellowship (1988-1991)  and  Boettcher scholarship  (1983-1987)

PATENTS:

U.S. Patent #6,413,880 B1, “Strongly Textured Atomic Ridge and Dot Fabrication,” A. Baski and D. Kendall (StarMega Corporation), Issued July 2, 2002.