IEEE offers Institute Awards and the Societies and Society Technical Committees also offer awards. While not exactly an award, elevation to the member status of Fellow is extremely prestigious and we include these individuals elevated to Fellow in our Awards section. Each year the IEEE Board of Directors elects no more than 0.1% of the full membership to the grade of Fellow. Nominations are made from among Senior Members and must be supported by at least six Fellows. After being reviewed and ranked by the appropriate IEEE Society, the nominations are forwarded to the Fellow Committee of the IEEE Board who then recommend a list of candidates for the Board’s consideration. The NPSS is pleased that the following members were elected by the Board this year, and extends its congratulations to each of them.

Richard T. Kouzes

Richard T. Kouzes is a Laboratory Fellow at the Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) working in the areas of computational applications, nonproliferation, and homeland security. As Chief Scientist for the Computer and Information Sciences Directorate he is responsible for creating focus and a global view of the future scientific directions of computation. His work on homeland security has been for the deployment of radioactive material interdiction equipment at U.S. borders, and for three years he was the Principal Investigator and Technical Lead for the U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s Radiation Portal Monitor Project. He works on issues related to the implementation of bilateral and trilateral programs, and was Principal Investigator for the DTRA Transparency Program in the authentication of monitoring systems. He is the director of the Radiation Detection and Analysis Laboratory for PNNL as part of the Homeland Security Initiative. His other research interests are in the field of collaborative computing for the enabling of scientific research independent of geographical location, in nuclear physics for disarmament verification, and in neutrino research. He is an adjunct Professor of Physics at Washington State University.
Formerly, as the director of program development for science and engineering and professor of physics at WVU, he was responsible for facilitating the growth of research and economic development programs in the physical and biological sciences and engineering. Before moving to WVU, Dr. Kouzes was a staff scientist at PNNL. He was an initiator of, and a Principle Investigator for, the DOE's Collaboratory program. His research program at PNNL was in computer-assisted cooperative work, advanced data acquisition system development, neural network applications, and precision atomic mass measurements.
Before moving to PNNL, Dr. Kouzes was a senior research physicist and lecturer at Princeton University, where for 15 years he was a leading researcher in solar neutrino and nuclear structure experimentation.
Dr. Kouzes earned his Ph.D. in physics from Princeton University in 1974 and did postdoctoral work at Indiana University. He is a founder and past chair of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Committee for Computer Applications in Nuclear and Plasma Sciences, and has been an elected member of the IEEE Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society Administrative Committee. He is the author of over 300 papers.
Citation: For contributions to nuclear radiation detection systems.
Dr. Kouzes can be reached at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, PO Box 999, MS K7-36, Richland, WA 99352; Phone: +1 509 372-4858; Fax: 509-372-4969; E-mail: Richard.kouzes@pnl.gov.

Wim P. Leemans

Wim Leemans obtained an electrical engineering/applied physics degree from the “Vrije Universiteit Brussel,” Belgium in 1985, and the MS and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering with emphasis on plasma physics, in 1987 and 1991 respectively, from UCLA. He received the 1092 American Physical Society Simon Ramo award for outstanding doctoral thesis research work in plasma physics. In 1991 he joined the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), as a Staff Scientist and, in 1994, started the LOASIS group in the Accelerator and Fusion Research Division. He is also an Adjunct Professor in physics at the University of Nevada, Reno. His current research interests are in laser-based advanced accelerator concepts for electrons and ions, ultra-short X-ray pulse and THz generation and the interaction of electron beams with plasmas. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, the current Chair of the International Committee for Future Accelerators (ICFA) Panel on Advanced and Novel Accelerator, the corecipient of the 1996 Klaus Halbach Award for X-ray Instrumentation, the recipient of the 2005 United States Particle Accelerator School Prize for Achievement in Accelerator Physics and Technology and the corecipient of Outstanding Performance Awards in 2005 and 2006 at LBNL.
Citation: For contributions to the field of advanced accelerators, in particular laser-plasma acceleration of electrons.
Wim Leemans can be reached at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, One Cyclotron Road, MS 71-259, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA;E-mail: wpleemans@lbl.gov.

Warren B. Mori

Warren B. Mori obtained his M.S. and Ph.D. from UCLA in 1984 and 1987 respectively. He is currently a full professor in both the Physics and Astronomy and Electrical Engineering departments at UCLA. He is also the Director of the UCLA Institute for Digital Research and Education. Prof. Mori holds patents on novel methods for generating tunable radiation by upshifting the frequency of light by rapid plasma creation and by the use of relativistic ionization fronts. He received the International Center for Theoretical Physics Medal for Excellence in Nonlinear Plasma Physics by a Young Researcher in 1995, in 1997 he was elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society for his “outstanding contributions to particle simulations of complex laser-plasma phenomena and of plasma based light sources,” and he was recently elected a Fellow of IEEE for his contributions to plasma science. He is currently a member of the NERSC Users Group, he is chair of the organizing committee of the 2007 Anomalous Absorption Conference, and was on the organizing committee for the 2006 SciDAC Conference. He has served on the executive committee of the Division of Plasma Physics within APS and the best thesis prize committees for both the Division of Plasma Physics and the Division of Beams. He was guest editor of an IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science special issue on the Generation of Tunable Radiation Using Plasmas in February 1993. His current research interests are in high-performance computing, plasma-based accelerators, inertial confinement fusion, and high-energy-density science. He is a co-architect of the fully parallelized particle-in-cell codes OSIRIS and QuickPIC which are widely used throughout the plasma-based accelerator, inertial confinement fusion, and intense beam-plasma interactions communities. He has coauthored 220 articles including over 130 articles in refereed journals of which four were in Nature, 12 were in IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science, and 42 in Physical Review Letters. He has graduated six students of whom two have received APS sponsored best thesis prizes. Prof. Mori has also mentored 7 post-doctoral scholars and he is currently advising six graduate students. He is a referee for IEEE, Physics of Plasmas, and Physical Review. He is currently on the editorial board of the Computational Science and Discovery Journal.
Citation: For contributions to plasma physics
Prof. Mori can be reached at the University of California, Los Angeles, Dept. of Physics, PO Box 951547, 4-913 PAB, Los Angeles, CA 90095 USA; Phone:

Xiaochuan Pan

Xiaochuan Pan received his B. S. in Physics from Beijing University in 1982, his M. S. in Physics from Institute of Physics of Academia Sinica in 1985, his M. S. and Ph. D. in Physics from The University of Chicago in 1988 and in 1991. He is currently a full Professor with tenure in the Department of Radiology, the College, the Committee on Medical Physics, and the Cancer Research Center at The University of Chicago. Dr. Pan is also a fellow of SPIE. The research interests of Dr. Pan’s laboratory center on imaging physics and mathematics, signal processing, image quality assessment, and their applications to a wide range of medical imaging problems. Dr. Pan has authored and co-authored more than 250 journal and proceeding papers on a variety of tomographic imaging approaches, including computed tomography, emission tomography, and diffraction tomography.
Citation: For contributions to nuclear and noninvasive imaging.
Xiaochuan Pan can be reached at The University of Chicago, Department of Radiology, MC2026 5841 S. Maryland Avenue, Chicago, IL, 60637-2026, USA; Phone: +1 773 702-1293; Fax: +1 773 702-3766; E-mail: xpan@uchicago.edu

Ronald Lee Pease

Ronald L. Pease is President and sole employee of RLP Research, which he formed in 1993. His recent work has focused on radiation effects in bipolar linear microcircuits and radiation hardness assurance for his primary customer, the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA). He has been the principal investigator for the DTRA programs on enhanced low dose rate sensitivity (ELDRS) and analog single event transients (ASETs) in bipolar linear circuits. After graduating with honors with a B.A. in physics from Indiana University (1965) and doing a year of graduate work in physics at the University of Washington (Seattle) he went to work for the U.S. Navy in 1966 as a civil servant at what is now NAVSEA Crane, Indiana. While at Crane he performed radiation effects testing on missile electronic components and served as the Chairman of the Space Parts Working Group Hardness Assurance Committee. In 1977 Mr. Pease left civil service and joined the BDM Corporation in Albuquerque, NM. After two years at BDM he joined Mission Research Corporation (Albuquerque) where he remained until forming his own company. At Mission Research (now ATK Mission Research) he was the Manager of the Microelectronics Division for several years before becoming the Chief Scientist for the Division. His work at MRC included serving as the principal investigator on many Department of Defense contracts on radiation effects in microelectronics. Mr. Pease has authored over a 100 refereed journal articles and written several radiation hardness assurance guideline documents and test procedures. He has served on the NPSS Radiation Effect Steering Committee and in numerous positions on the Nuclear and Space Radiation Effects Conference (NSREC) committee, serving as the Conference Chairman for the 2000 conference in Reno, NV. Mr. Pease is a four time winner of the NSREC Outstanding Conference Paper Award and a four time winner of the Outstanding Radiation Effects Data Workshop Presentation.
Citation: For contributions to radiation response of microelectronic devices, circuits, and systems
Ron Pease can be reached at 8 Songbird Lane, Los Lunas, NM 87031; Phone: +1 505 565-0548; FAX, same but call first; E-mail rpease@rlpresearch.com

Ned R. Sauthoff

Ned Sauthoff received his education at MIT and Princeton University. He developed X-ray instrumentation of tokamak plasmas and studied MHD instabilities using these new tools. He was a co-discoverer of internal MHD modes called “sawteeth.” He managed design and operations of the control and data systems for the Tokamak Fusion Test Reactor. He was project manager of the PBX-M tokamak, head of the PPPL Computer Division, head of Experimental Projects, and head of the Plasma Science and Technology Department, all at Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL). In 2006, he moved to the Oak Ridge National Laboratory where he is Director of the US ITER Project Office. He is a fellow of APS and AAAS as well as IEEE.
Citation: For contributions to plasma physics and fusion energy.
Dr. Ned Sauthoff can be reached at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, US ITER Project Office, PO Box 2008, Bldg 1055COM, MS-6483, Oak Ridge, TN 37831-6483; Phone: +1 865 574-5955; Fax: +1 865 574-6018; E-mail: nrsauthoff@ornl.gov.