APS has selected Dr. Stephen R. Forrest, Professor of Physics at the University of Michigan, to serve as interim Editor of Physical Review Applied. Steve will take over this role from Troy Shinbrot, and we would like to thank Troy for his service in guiding the journal since its inception in December 2013.
Stephen Forrest is the Peter A. Franken Distinguished University Professor, and the Paul G. Goebel Professor in Electrical Engineering, Materials Science and Engineering, and Physics at the University of Michigan. He received his Ph.D. in Physics in 1979 at the University of Michigan after which he joined Bell Labs, where he investigated photodetectors for optical communications. He was also part of the Electrical Engineering and Materials Science Departments at the University of Southern California where he worked on optoelectronic integrated circuits, and organic semiconductors. In 1992, he became the James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor of Electrical Engineering at Princeton University, where he went on to serve as Chair of the department from 1997 to 2001. He was also director of the National Center for Integrated Photonic Technology, Director of Princeton’s Center for Photonics and Optoelectronic Materials (POEM) and the CSM Visiting Professor of Electrical Engineering at the National University of Singapore. He is currently also Distinguished Visiting Professor of Electrical Engineering at the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology. He is a Fellow of the APS, IEEE and OSA and a member of the National Academy of Inventors, the National Academy of Engineering, and the National Academy of Sciences, and is co-founder or founding participant in several companies, including Sensors Unlimited, Epitaxx, Inc., NanoFlex Power Corp., Universal Display Corp. (NASDAQ: PANL) and ASIP, Inc., and is on the Board of Directors of Applied Materials.
