James Logan Merz

Background

Merz, James Logan was born on April 14, 1936 in Jersey City. Son of Albert Joseph and Anne Elizabeth (Farrell) Merz.

Education

Bachelor of Science in Physics, U. Notre Dame, 1959; postgraduate, U. Göttingen, Federal Republic Germany, 1959-1960; Master of Arts, Harvard University, 1961; Doctor of Philosophy in Applied Physics, Harvard University, 1967; Doctor of Philosophy (honorary), Lingköping U., Sweden, 1993.

Career

Member technical staff, Bell laboratories, Murray Hill, New Jersey, 1966-1978; professor electrical engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara, 1978-1994; professor materials, University of California, Santa Barbara, 1986-1994; department chairman electrical and computer engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara, 1982-1984; associate dean for research development College Engineering, University California, Santa Barbara, 1984-1986; acting associate vice chancellor, University of California, Santa Barbara, 1988; director semiconductor research corporation core program on Gallium Arsenide digital ICs, University of California, Santa Barbara, 1984-1989; director Compound Semiconductor Research laboratories, University of California, Santa Barbara, 1986-1992; director National Science Foundation Center for Quantized Electronic Structures, University of California, Santa Barbara, 1989-1994; Freimann professor electrical engineering, U. Notre Dame (Indiana), since 1994; vice president for graduate studies and research, dean Graduate School, U. Notre Dame (Indiana), since 1996. North Atlantic Treaty Organization Advanced Study Institute lecturer International School Materials Science and Technology, Erice-Sicily, Italy, 1990. Member Executive Committee California Microelectronics Innovation and Computer Research Opportunities Program, 1986-1992.

Mem.NRC commission on Japan, NAS/National Academy of Engineering, 1988-1990. Member international advising committee International Symposium on Physics of Semiconductors and Applications, Seoul, Republic of Korea, 1990, Conference on Superlattices and Microstructures, Xi'an, China, 1992. Participant, member committees other professional conferences and meetings.

Achievements

• James Logan Merz has been listed as a noteworthy engineering, researcher, educator by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Fellow Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, American Physical Society. Member Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Lasers and Electro-Optics Society(program committee annual meeting 1980), Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Electron Device Society (secretary 1994, 95), American Vacuum Society (Executive Committee electronic materials and processing division 1988-1989), Electrochemical Society, Materials Research Society (editorial board journal 1984-1987), Society for Values in Higher Education, Institute Electronics, Information and Comm. Engineers (overseas advising committee), Sigma Xi, Eta Kappa Nu.

Connections

Married Rose-Marie Weibel, June 30, 1962. Children: Kathleen, James, Michael, Kimarie.

Father:

Albert Joseph Merz

Mother:

Anne Elizabeth (Farrell) Merz

Spouse:

Rose-Marie Weibel

child:

Michael Merz

child:

James Merz

child:

Kathleen Merz

child:

Kimarie Merz