CLASS OF 2010
The Newly Elected AdCom Members

Sandra Biedron

Sandra Biedron is the reelected member of AdCom representing the Particle Accelerator Science and Technology community. Since she was featured in the March 2006 issue we are not repeating her biography here, but welcome her back to a full term on AdCom.

Eric Frey

Eric C. Frey, Ph.D., is currently an Associate Professor in the Division of Medical Imaging Physics in the Department of Radiology and Radiological Sciences at Johns Hopkins University. He has been a member of IEEE and the NPSS since 1991 and a Senior Member since 2005. He was the Deputy MIC Chair for the 2001 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference (NSS/MIC), a member of the Nuclear Medical Imaging and Sciences technical council (NMISTC) in 2001-2002, and a member of the site selection committee for the 2005 NSS/MIC; he will be the MIC Chair for the 2007 NSS/MIC. He is a regular reviewer of manuscripts for IEEE TMI and TNS as well as other scientific journals.
He has been a regular participant in the NSS/MIC since 1989 and reviewed abstracts for the meeting since 1993. His major research interests are in SPECT image reconstruction with compensation for image degrading factors, dual isotope imaging, quantitative imaging for targeted radionuclide therapy dosimetry, and reconstruction and instrumentation for x-ray microcomputed tomography applications. He has been the advisor of 5 Ph.D. students, the P.I. of 4 NIH-funded grants, and an author of more than 64 refereed publications in scientific journals.

James R. Schwank

James R. Schwank (S’78-M’78-SM’89-F’94) received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the
University of California at Los Angeles. Jim joined Sandia National Laboratories in 1979, and is a Principal Member of the Technical Staff in the Radiation Physics, Technology, and Assurance Department. At Sandia, Jim has been involved in programs investigating the mechanisms of radiation effects in semiconductor devices (including the discovery of the rebound effect), developing radiation-hardened devices, and improving hardness assurance test methods. He is currently investigating SOI technology for radiation-hardened applications and is the inventor of the BUSFET radiation-hardened SOI transistor. Jim has participated actively in numerous activities within the radiation effects community. For the NSREC, he has served as General Conference Chairman, Short Course Chairman, Short Course Instructor, Liaison to RADECS, and Publicity Chairman. In addition, he was a Technical Program and Short Course Chairman for the Hardened Electronics and Radiation Technology (HEART) Conference, Guest Editor for the Journal of Radiation Effects and RADECS, and served on the RADECS Conseil d’Administration and the IEEE SOI Conference Technical Program Committees. Jim is the author of more than 150 publications, encyclopedia articles, and short courses including papers that received ten NSREC and three HEART Conference Outstanding Paper Awards. He is also the recipient of an R&D 100, an Industry Week Technology, and a Discover Magazine Technology Award, and is on the ISI Highly Cited list of most highly cited researchers worldwide. Jim is a Fellow of the IEEE and a member of the NPSS.

Rick Van Berg

Rick Van Berg (M’78) directs the University of Pennsylvania High Energy Physics Instrumentation and Engineering group. This group specializes in front end and data acquisition electronics for major HEP experiments with expertise ranging from front end ASIC development through DAQ code architecture. The group has designed and built whole experiments (the electronics and DAQ chain for Kamiokande II and the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory, SNO) and parts of larger experiments (the wire chamber front end and time of flight system for CDF and the wire chamber front end for the ATLAS TRT). The group is also using its expertise in fast electronics to effect improvements in PET scanning and in a series of novel radiation and optical probes for medical use.
Mr. Van Berg received his BA from Haverford College, Haverford Pa., in 1964 and his MS from the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, in 1966. He has been on the technical staff at Penn since 1966. He is presently a member of the SNO, ATLAS, and LSST collaborations. He has authored or co-authored numerous technical and physics articles in refereed journals. He is active in promoting science for high school students as lead for the Penn Quarknet project and as a teacher in the Penn Summer Science Academy. He is an associate editor of Transactions on Nuclear Science and was Deputy Program Chair for the NSS in 2002.