Uwe Bratzler
Uwe Bratzler of CERN and Tokyo Metropolitan University (TMU) is a member of the ATLAS Collaboration at CERN where he has been working on the Muon Detector Project for the last nine years. His current job function is Project Manager (for TMU at CERN).
After professional training and several years of experience working in the telecommunication field in Germany, his home country, he entered the University of Karlsruhe (Germany) where he completed his Diploma/M.S. in physics (1990) with high honors and received a Fulbright Scholarship to study in the United States. He obtained his Ph.D. in experimental particle physics from the University of Washington, Seattle, USA, in 1995. He returned to Germany to the Max-Planck Institute (MPI) in Munich to lead the development, production and testing of the first large-scale, high-precision MDT muon detector for the ATLAS project at CERN. During this time, Dr. Bratzler was elected to the MPI Institute Board. In 1998, he moved to CERN to focus on the continuing ATLAS Muon Project tasks there, and was a member of the project management team at CERN. Dr. Bratzler is a collaborator of research teams and institutions from a number of countries around the world, such as IHEP Protvino (Russia), MIT (USA), NTU Athens (Greece) and TMU (Japan). This gives him a broad background, insight and vision concerning our international science communities, their situation and problems but also their potentials in different countries. He is author or co-author of numerous publications and has made several crucial contributions to the development of large-scale particle detector systems. In addition to these project tasks and activities, Dr. Bratzler has been working for physics education and outreach both in Europe and the USA and in the last several years for the promotion of the IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium (NSS) and Medical Imaging Conference (MIC). He has been an IEEE member for 13 years and has served on the IEEE Transnational Committee (TNC) for the last three years. He was the program chair of the 2003 IEEE NSS and is the leader of the IEEE NSS/MIC Conference Information and Promotion (CIP) team. Most recently, Dr. Bratzler was elected to the NPSS Radiation Instrumentation Steering Committee (RISC) where he will serve for the next 4 years. He has been elected to AdCom to chair the Transnational Committee and to bring international interests and concerns to AdCom.

Christopher Deeney

Christopher Deeney was born on October 28th, 1963 in Bellshill, Scotland. In June 1984, he graduated with a First Class Honours B.Sc. in Physics from the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow. From October 1984 to October 1987, he completed his Ph.D. research on the formation of hotspots and electron beams in gas puff Z pinches and plasma focii at Imperial College in London. Dr. Deeney was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Stuttgart, Germany until May 1988 when he joined Physics International Company, California.
At Physics International he became the program manager for Z-pinch-based plasma radiation source development, for X-ray laser research and the application of pulsed corona technologies to pollution control. In 1991, he was promoted to be the Department Manager of the Plasma Physics Group.
In February 1995, Dr Deeney became the first foreign national employee of Sandia National Laboratories where he has been one of the experimenters on the 8-MA Saturn and 20-MA Z pulsed-power generators. From August 1999 to August 2000, Dr. Deeney was on detail in the Office of Inertial Confinement Fusion, where he was responsible for planning activities associated with various science campaigns, including the Nuclear Survivability Campaign, the Secondary Physics Campaign, and the Inertial Confinement Fusion Program. In 2000, he was promoted to a department manager position at SNL with responsibilities in areas including Z-pinch development and applications of pulsed power to material dynamics studies.
To date, Dr. Deeney has published 85 journal papers on Z-pinch physics, X-ray lasers, spectroscopy, plasma focus research, X-ray diagnostics, dynamic material properties, and high repetition rate pulsed power for pollution mitigation.
He is also an active member of the IEEE, having sat on the PSAC EXCOM and being the Chairperson for 1999 International Conference on Plasma Science, and is the chair for a Z-pinch Minicourse at ICOPS 2005 in Monterey. In 1999, he was awarded an APS Fellowship in the Division of Plasma Physics, and is a senior member of the IEEE. He has participated in many program reviews for Sandia and DOE.

Ronald J. Jaszczak

Ronald Jaszczak received his B.S. degree with High Honors in Physics from the University of Florida in 1964, ranking 4th in a class of 980. In 1968, he received his Ph.D. degree in Physics from the same university. He was awarded a U.S. Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) Post-Doctoral Fellowship at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) and remained in its Physics Division as a Staff Physicist until 1971. He then joined the Research Department at Nuclear Chicago Corporation (now Siemens Medical Systems) as a Principal Research Scientist, and was promoted to Chief Scientist in 1977. In 1979, he was recruited to Duke University Medical Center as an Associate Professor in the Department of Radiology, and was promoted to Professor of Radiology in 1989. Currently, he is also a Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Duke.
Professor Jaszczak’s research interests are in the field of medical imaging science. He has over 32 years of experience in the design and application of nuclear medical imaging systems. He has contributed to the development of single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT), and is credited with coining the term SPECT. He designed and built early prototype SPECT devices, and for the past several years his research activities have focused on advancing the quantitative imaging capabilities of emission tomography.
In 1981, he and his wife, Nancy, co-founded Data Spectrum Corporation (DSC) in Hillsborough, NC, a leading manufacturer of quality assurance and research phantoms for the nuclear medical imaging community. He has authored or co-authored over 300 peer-reviewed journal articles, conference proceedings and book chapters. Professor Jaszczak received the 2000 Paul C. Aebersold Award from the Society of Nuclear Medicine, and a 2004 Outstanding Alumni Award from the University of Florida, Gainesville.
Professor Jaszczak has been actively involved in the IEEE Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society (NPSS) since 1975. He has held several appointed and elected positions on the NPSS Administrative Committee (AdCom) including, for example: NPSS President and Vice President, NPSS AdCom Member, NPSS Awards Chair, NPSS Nominations Committee Chair, NPSS Fellow Evaluation Committee Chair, IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging (TMI) Steering Committee Chair, Associate Editor of TMI, Nuclear Medical and Imaging Sciences (NMIS) Technical Committee Chair, IEEE Medical Imaging Conference (MIC) Program Chair, and NSS/MIC Site Selection Committee member. In 1993, he was recognized for his contributions to nuclear medicine imaging by being elected an IEEE Fellow.