Leslie A. Kolodziejski

Professor of Electrical Engineering in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT. Her research group, Integrated Photonic Devices and Materials Group, implements compound semiconductor materials for photonic devices such as lasers, saturable Bragg reflectors, modulators, and photonic integrated circuits fabricated in her lab, The Nanoprecision Deposition Laboratory. Professor Kolodziejski is the founder of the graduate women leadership institute Leaders in Life.

CatherineDidion

Committee on Women in Science, Engineering, and Medicine (CWSEM) of the National Research Council (NRC). The mission of CWSEM is to serve as a resource for organizations and individuals seeking information and analysis about the status of women in STEM education and employment as well as an institutional focal point on women in science, engineering and medicine in support of complementary activities across the National Academies.

In addition to her work at the NRC, she is a Senior Program Officer at the National Academy of Engineering (NAE). Her charge there is to provide staff leadership to the Academy's efforts to enhance the diversity of the engineering workforce at all levels. As part of her responsibilities she is the Project Director for the Engineering Equity Extension Service Project (EEES) which is working with engineering societies to enhance their gender equity principles within their professional development materials.

Before joining the National Academies, Didion was Vice President of the Didion Group, a public affairs and communications firm, as well as the director of the International Network of Women in Engineering and Science (INWES). Didion previously served 14 years as the Executive Director of the Association for Women in Science (AWIS). During her tenure AWIS was awarded the U.S. Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics, and Engineering Mentoring and she was the principle investigator for 17 government and foundation grants. Didion has presented testimony before the United States Congress and U.S. federal agencies.

Didion is an internationally recognized expert on issues of equity and gender in science and engineering. She has worked extensively with the European Commission, the South African Ministry of Science and Technology, the Organization of American States, and many other organizations on these issues. She has been an invited speaker on mentoring, networking, and women in science and engineering at over 200 conferences and has authored over fifty publications on women in science and engineering. She was the editor for Women in Science Column for the Journal of College Science Teaching from 1993-2002.

Didion has extensive experience on Capitol Hill including staff positions at the U.S. Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee, Office of Senator Robert Packwood (R-Oregon), the Senate Computer Center, and the Senate Press Gallery.

Didion's honors and awards include AAAS Fellow (2005); AWIS Fellow (2001); Drucker Foundation Fellow (2000); Texaco Management Institute Fellow (1999); Secretary of the US Air Force Inaugural Environmental Civic Leaders Tour (1996); and Certificate of Commendation and Distinguished Service, Embassy of the United States of America (1989).

Kim Budil

Dr. Budil is a Senior Advisor to the Under Secretary for Science at the Department of Energy. In this role she provides technical assistance on matters related to the National Nuclear Security Administration including its missions, the scientific and technical capabilities of the NNSA laboratories and complex, and the relationship between the NNSA and the broader DOE. Dr. Budil is detailed to this assignment from the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory where most recently she was the Associate B Program Leader for Science, Technology and Experiments within the Weapons and Complex Integration (WCI) Directorate. In this role she managed the fundamental research program supporting WCI including the Dynamic Material Properties Campaign and the Advanced Simulation and Computing (ASC) Physics and Engineering Models Program.In 2003 she was detailed to NNSA headquarters in Washington, D.C. for two years where she was assigned to the Office of Defense Science. In this role she managed the Dynamic Materials Properties Campaign, served as the Chair of the Pit Lifetime Working Group and provided technical advice on a variety of issues.

During her career at LLNL Dr. Budil has pursued research in a number of areas including High Energy Density Physics, performing experiments on the Nova, and later Omega, lasers investigating hydrodynamic instabilities, equations-of-state, and radiation transport, and computational studies of fundamental materials properties and other weapon physics issues. In 2002 she was selected to be the Scientific Editor for the Laboratory publications Science and Technology Review and National Security Review. Dr. Budil is currently a member of the APS Panel on Public Affairs, which is charged with performing objective studies of issues at the intersection of science and technology and public policy. She has actively participated in numerous other activities focused on increasing the participation of women in physics. Dr. Budil was a senior member of the U. S. delegation to the 1st International Union of Pure and Applied Physics Conference on Women in Physics in 2002 and co-chaired the U. S. delegation to the 2nd conference in 2005, and has served on a number of site visit teams assessing the climate for women in physics under the auspices of the APS Committee on the Status of Women in Physics.

Silke Zollinger
Max Planck Institute for Physics, Munich

Born on February 2nd 1980 in Speyer, Germany, Silke Zollinger is a highly motivated communications specialist with experience in media, writing and science. As Press and Public Relations Officer at the Max Planck Institute for Physics (MPP) in Munich, Germany, she currently manages all press and outreach activities. At MPP, she develops strategies to meet the needs of target audiences by combining the use of communication, didactics and scientific information to share information about the field of particle and astroparticle physics. With her excellent media skills, a very good understanding of how to convert highly scientific content into readable text, and a knack for collaboration with colleagues and the public she is responsible for the institute's popular scientific communication success with the public and the institute's visibility in print and broadcast media.

She previously worked with excellent research organizations like CERN in Geneva, Fraunhofer Research Society in Munich, and the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. She developed her business expertise working in the software development industry with giants like SAP in Germany and Delcam in Great Britain.

She obtained her academic qualifications from the Technical Communication program of the University of Applied Sciences in Karlsruhe, Germany. In addition she is a Certified Engineering Draftswoman (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology).

She loves hiking and playing guitar and kayaking is one of her hobbies. As a former competitive athlete with the German National Team, she currently teaches kayaking to individuals and groups.

Linda G. Blevins

Senior Technical Advisor in the Office of the Deputy Director for Science Programs in the DOE Office of Science.  Her responsibilities include providing advice on science program management.  Her efforts contribute to the normalization of management practices across the science programs, including the use of advisory committees and committees of visitors, the execution of peer review for research and facilities, the use of electronic tools for program management, and the development and execution of staffing plans.  She manages the Office of Science Early Career Research Program and various other cross-cutting activities, and she assists with coordination of international activities in the science programs.  She represents DOE on the Research Business Models subcommittee of the Committee on Science of the National Science and Technology Council and was recently a member of the White House task force on Scientific Integrity.  She previously served as an advisor to the director of the DOE Office of Basic Energy Sciences; as a program manager at the National Science Foundation; as a Senior Member of the Technical Staff at Sandia National Laboratories; and as a staff researcher at the National Institute of Standards and Technology.  She received a Ph.D. from Purdue University, a M.S. from Virginia Tech, and a B.S. summa cum laude from the University of Alabama.  All of her degrees are in mechanical engineering.  Her research in combustion science has led to more than 20 archival papers and more than 70 reports and conference papers.  She testified before a Congressional subcommittee in 2008 on the topic of gender equity in science and engineering.  Blevins has served on the Executive Board of the California Biomass Collaborative, the Executive Committee of the Western States Section of the Combustion Institute, the University of AlabamaCollege of Engineering Leadership Board, and the University of Alabama Mechanical Engineering Advisory Board.  She is a Purdue University Outstanding Mechanical Engineer and a University of Alabama Department of Mechanical Engineering Distinguished Fellow.  She was a contributor to the book, Giving Much/Gaining More: Mentoring for Success, written by Emily M. Wadsworth and published by Purdue University Press in 2002.  As a graduate student at Purdue, she was a National Science Foundation Fellow, a Clare Boothe Luce Fellow, and a Link Foundation Energy Fellow.

Beverly Karplus Hartline

Associate Provost for Research and Dean of Graduate Studies at the University of the District of Columbia. Previously she has held teaching, research and leadership positions in universities, in Department of Energy laboratories, at NASA, and worked in policy at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy from 1996-1998. From 1985 through 1996 she was a member of the leadership team for the Continuous Electron Beam Accelerator Facility, which became Jefferson Lab after completion. As Associate Director for Project Management she was responsible for ensuring completion of the project within cost, on schedule, and achieving the performance goals. A passionate educator enthusiastic about attracting students to science and engineering, Hartline organized and led JLab's first education/outreach programs - focused especially on broadening participation to include more women and minorities. As a member of the Committee on Equal Opportunities in Science and Engineering (2003-2009, chairperson in 2007), she became interested in institutional transformation of the science enterprise to take full advantage of the ideas and energy of America's and the world's diverse population. She is a charter member of the International Working Group on Women in Physics of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics. This working group has organized three international conferences: one in Paris in 2002, one in Rio de Janeiro in 2005, and one in Seoul in 2008. She is the lead editor for the proceedings from these conferences. She has raised substantial funding to support full participation in the conferences. Her Ph.D. is in geophysics from the University of Washington, and she has a bachelor's degree in chemistry and physics from Reed College. She and her husband, Fred, have two sons, both with Ph.D.s in theoretical computer science.

Marc Sher

Several years ago, Laurie McNeil (now Chair of Physics at UNC) and I conducted a survey concerning dual career couples in physics. The response was overwhelming, and an extensive report was written (which has now been downloaded 40,000 times, and has had a significant impact on policy within federal agencies). The survey results will be discussed in detail, including the extent of the problem, a number of "horror stories", and various suggested solutions (and, yes, some success stories). Recent developments in academia will also be discussed, as the institutional responses to the "two-body problem" have changed substantially in recent years.

Kathleen McCloud

Dr. McCloud received her BS in Physics from the College of William and Mary in 1988, and her PhD in Physics from the University of Pittsburgh in 1995 under the direction of Dr. James Maher. After a year of a postdoc at the University of Pittsburgh, she began her career at Xavier University of Louisiana, a Historically Black University located in New Orleans, as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Physics and Dual Degree Engineering. In 2001 she was promoted to Associate Professor and was elected Chair of the Department, a position she held until leaving Xavier for the National Science Foundation in 2006. She is currently the Program Officer in charge of the Education and Interdisciplinary Research Program in the Physics Division at the National Science Foundation.

Dr. McCloud's primary research focus is pattern selection and interfacial dynamics in fluid systems, and she was able to successfully involve and mentor many undergraduate students at Xavier in her research activities. As a faculty member and as Chair, she also helped build and manage the undergraduate physics program at Xavier, as well as the associated dual degree engineering program. The undergraduate physics program at Xavier is known for consistently graduating the most African-American students with physics degrees in the nation

Howard Georgi

Born January 6, 1947, in San Bernardino, California, Georgi was an undergraduate at Harvard in Chemistry and Physics from 1964-67, received a PhD from Yale in 1971 under Charles Sommerfield. Returning to Harvard, he was a postdoc, a Junior Fellow in the Society of Fellows, joined the faculty in 1976 as an Associate Professor and was promoted to Professor in 1980. He served as department chair from 1991-94, and is now a Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics. He was a Senior Fellow in the Society of Fellows for 15 years before he resigned in 1998 to become Master of Leverett House. His work in particle theory has involved many aspects of the standard model, particularly QCD and grand unified theories. The latter were first constructed by Georgi and Sheldon Glashow in 1973. Much of Georgi's research has been in collaboration with his many graduate students, a group that includes four of the outstanding women in particle theory: Sally Dawson, Ann Nelson, Lisa Randall and Elizabeth Simmons. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Physical Society and a member of the National Academy of Sciences. He received the Sakurai Prize from the APS in 1995, the Dirac Medal from the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics in 2000 and the Pomeranchuk Prize from the Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics - Moscow in 2006. In addition to his research interests, Georgi is active in physics education and in the status of women and minorities in physics. He has served in the Chair line of the Division of Particles and Fields of the APS, the executive committee of the APS Forum for Education, the APS committee on the status of women in physics, as an external advisor to the Hunter College Gender Equity Project, and on the Advisory Board of Boston University Women in Science and Engineering. He co-chaired the NRC committee on women in science and engineering from 1996-99. In 2009 he was elected as a Fellow of the Association for Women in Science. He has served on a number of Harvard committees related to gender issues and was involved in trying to repair the damage done by Larry Summers in his (in)famous remarks about women and science. Below, is a message Georgi sent to Harvard Physics and Chemistry and Physics concentrators shortly after the comments hit the papers.
I am sure that many Physics and Chemistry and Physics concentrators and perhaps other science concentrators are puzzled, as I was, by the spate of news about Larry Summers' recent remarks on women in science. As Head Tutor in Physics and Chemistry and Physics, I thought it might be appropriate to pass along some of my own views on the subject.

It would be foolish to deny that different people have different talents. You have only to look around at your fellow students to see that this is true in physics as in other human endeavors. Given the biological differences between men and women, it would be surprising if the distribution of talents were identical for women and for men, though we have no convincing evidence for important differences in the intellectual realm.

However, having taught physics for many years and having interacted with literally thousands of Harvard physics students, I can say some other things about the issue with equal confidence.
1 - Talent is not a unitary thing. It is multidimensional and difficult to measure or quantify precisely.
2 - Many different kinds of talents are critical to the advancement of physics or any other science interesting enough to be worth doing.
3 - The spread of talents within any group, sex, race, etc, is very large compared to any small average differences that may exist between such groups.
4 - Talent can to be developed and enhanced by education, encouragement, self-confidence and hard work.

For these reasons, I think that it is not particularly useful to talk about innate differences to explain the differences in representation of various groups in physics. Instead, I conclude that we need to try harder to teach our wonderful subject in a way that nourishes as many different skills as possible.

Catherine Fiore

Catherine Fiore received her PhD in Plasma Physics from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in August of 1980 after completing her thesis work developing a heavy ion beam as plasma diagnostic for measurement of the internal electric field in a tokamak plasma.

She immediately joined the newly formed Plasma Fusion Center at MIT as a staff research scientist in the Alcator tokamak program, specializing in ion temperature diagnostics. Her work has continued into the third tokamak in the Alcator series, C-Mod where she specializes in nuclear source measurements and plasma transport studies. In addition to her ongoing research responsibilities, since 1991 she has managed the environmental, safety and health program for the Plasma Science and Fusion Center.

Catherine has been active in women in science/physics issues for many years. She led the Boston Chapter of AWIS for several years in the early 1980s, and served as co-chair of the national AWIS affirmative action committee until 1992. She has been a member of the APS-DPP Weimer award committee since 2005, serving as vice-chair in 2005 and chair in 2008. She joined CSWP in 2006, and chaired the committee in 2008. She has worked as a steering committee member for the CSWP Gender Equity Project since 2006, and became the project PI in 2008. Catherine is also active in Girl Scouting in Lexington, MA where she recently coached an FLL Robotics team of area Girl Scouts.

David J. Ernst
Professor of Physics
Department of Physics and Astronomy, Vanderbilt University

Professional Preparation
Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Physics - SB, 1965
Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Physics - PhD, 1970
Case Western Reserve University - Research Associate - 1972-1975

Academic Appointments

• Professor, Vanderbilt University, 1992-present
• Adjunct Professor, Fisk University, 2005-present
• Chair, Department of Physics, Vanderbilt, 1992-1995, 1997-1999, 2002-2003
• Visiting Scientist, Jefferson Laboratory, 2001-2002
• Interim Director, W.M. Keck Free Electron Laser Center, Vanderbilt, 1999-2000
• Associate Dean, College of Arts & Science, Vanderbilt, 1995-1997
• Professor, Texas A&M University, 1985-1992
• Associate Director, Center for Theoretical Physics, Texas A&M, 1988-1991
• Co-Director, International Institute for Theoretical Physics, Texas A&M, 1990-1992
• Associate Professor, Texas A&M University, 1980-1985
• Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Washington, 1979-1980
• Assistant Professor, Texas A&M University, 1975-1980
• Research Associate/Instructor, Case Western Reserve University, 1972-1975
• Assistant Professor/ Professor, Centro de Investigacion y de Estudios Avanzados del Instituto Politecnico Nacional, Mexico, 1970-1972

Related Publications

• . D.C. Latimer and D.J. Ernst, "Physical region for three-neutrino mixing angles," Phys. Rev. D 71, 017301 (2005).
• . D.C. Latimer and D.J. Ernst, "Neutrino oscillations: measuring θ13 including its sign," Phys. Rev. C 71, 062501(R) (2005).
• . D. C. Latimer, J. Escamilla, and D. J. Ernst, "Measuring the mass of a sterile neutrino with a very short baseline reactor experiment, "Phys. Rev. C 75, 042501 (R) (2007).
• . D.C. Latimer, J.Escamilla, and D.J.Ernst,"Detecting CP violation in a single neutrino oscillation channel at very long baselines," Phys. Rev. C 76, 05502 (2007).
• . J. E. Roa, D. C. Latimer, and D. J. Ernst, "Atmospheric, Long Baseline, and Reactor Neutrino Oscillation Data Constarints on θ13," Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 061804 (2009).

Awards

• Texas A&M Association of Former Students Outstanding Teacher Award, 1983
• Fellow, American Physical Society, 1985-present
• Alexander Heard Distinguished Professor, Vanderbilt University, 2002-2003
• Affirmative Action and Diversity Initiative Award, Vanderbilt University, 2005
• Fellow, National Society of Black Physicists, 2009-present

Synergistic Activities
National Society of Hispanic Physicists
President, 2008-
Secretary, 1996-2007
Board of Directors, Member, 1996-present
Co-Chair, Program Committee, Joint Annual Conference of the National Society of
Black Physicists and the National Society of Hispanic Physicists, 2005-present

National Society of Black Physicists
Fellow, 2009-present
Co-Chair, Division of Nuclear and Particle Physics, 2006-present

Southeast Universities Research Association
Fellow, 2006-present
Board of Trustees, 1993-present; Executive Committee, 1999-2003, 2010-;
Vice Chair, 1999; Chair, 2000-2001; Past Chair, 2002-2003;Chair-Elect, 2010-
Nominating Committee, Chair, 2003
Working Group on Photon Science in the Southeast, Chair, 1999-2001
Director, Minority Serving Institutions Project, 2006-present

American Physical Society
Executive Board, Council, 2006-2009
Forum on International Physics, Vice Chair, 1998; Chair Elect, 1999; Chair, 2000;
Past Chair, 2001; member, 2006-2009
Committee on International Scientific Affairs, Member, 1999-2002, Chair 2000
Southeast Section, Member, Executive Committee, 2000-2003; Vice Chair, 2007; Chair-
Elect, 2008; Chair, 2009; Past Chair, 2010
Bouchet Award Committee, 2000-2001; Wheatley Award Committee, Chair 2003

American Institute of Physics
Liaison Committee for Under Represented Minorities, 2007-present

American Association of Physicists in Medicine
Member, Sub-Committee on Under-Represented Minorities, 2006-present

Collaborators and Advisors
Collaborators: I. Stancu, U. Alabama; D. C. Latimer, U. Kentucky; Mikkel Johnson, Los
Alamos National Lab; Chin Ming Chen, SJSMIT, Taiwan, J. Escamilla-Roa, Vanderbilt.
Advisors: Graduate, F. M. H. Villars, MIT; Postdoc, R. M. Thaler, Case Western Reserve

Mentored Graduate Students (last known employer)
Robert McLeod, Phd (1976), Wayland, MA, High School
John McClain, MS (1978), PhD (1981), Texas A&M University
Ann Fitchard, PhD (1982), Oil Exploration, Houston, TX
Gregory Parnell, MS (1980), PhD (1983), Rand Corporation, Santa Monica, CA
Chahriar Assad, Texas A&M, MS (1984), Hughes Aircraft, Los Angeles, CA
Dharam Ahluwalia, MS (1984), Phd (1989), Canterbury U., Christchurch, New Zealand
Charles Albert, MS (1984), PhD (1989), Rundle Inc., Austin, TX
Chin Ming Chen, MS (1985), PhD (1990), St. John & St. Mary Institute of Technology, Taiwan
Steven Jacobson, PhD (2001), GAC Inc., Newport News, VA
Lei Guo, MS (2001), PhD (2004), Los Alamos National Lab, Los Alamos, NM
Jesus Escamilla Roa, PhD (2008), Vanderbilt University
Bernadette Cogswell, PhD (2014)

Postdoctoral Fellows
David Giebink (1992-1995), industry;
David Latimer (2003-2005), University of Kentucky;
Jesus Escamilla Roa (2009-present), Vanderbilt University

Stephanie Bird

Dr. Stephanie J. Bird is an independent consultant, internationally-known speaker, and co-editor of the journal Science and Engineering Ethics. She is a laboratory-trained neuroscientist whose research interests focus on the ethical, legal and social policy implications of research and technology, especially in the area of neuroscience. She lectures and consults on the integration of the responsible conduct of research and ethics into science and engineering education. Her theoretical and laboratory training have been complemented by work in areas of ethical and legal philosophy.

As Special Assistant to the Provost and Vice President for Research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) from 1992 to 2003, Dr. Bird worked on the development of educational programs that addressed ethical issues in science and engineering, professional responsibilities, and ethical issues in research practice and science and engineering more generally. She also taught in her areas of expertise at MIT including both courses on the responsible conduct of research, and those that consider the ethical and social policy implications of science and technology. Dr. Bird headed the Ethics Domain of the VaNTH biomedical engineering educational consortium of which the Harvard-MIT Health Science and Technology program is a part, and has written numerous articles on issues in the responsible conduct of research and on mentoring and other responsibilities of science and engineering professionals.

The international journal Science and Engineering Ethics explores issues of direct concern to scientists and engineers related to both the practice and application of science and technology. In its fifteenth year of publication, the journal is widely abstracted and indexed and was cited by the National Academy of Science as a leading resource for scholarly articles on research integrity. Special issues of Science and Engineering Ethics have focused on various topics including "Integrating Ethics into Engineering Education and Practice", "Mentoring and the Responsible Conduct of Research", "Communicating Science" and "Web-based Education in Science and Engineering Ethics".

Dr. Bird is an active member and Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and has been Secretary of the Societal Impacts of Science and Engineering Section of the AAAS since 1995. She is also an active member of the Society for Neuroscience and chaired the Social Issues Committee from 2003-2005.

In 1990 and 1991, Dr. Bird served as President of the Association for Women in Science (AWIS), a national organization with 5000 members and over 80 chapters across the US. She was Director of the first AWIS Mentoring Project which was designed to encourage and support undergraduate and graduate students in their pursuit of careers in math, science and technology.

Dr. Bird gives talks and workshops at professional societies, conferences, medical schools, and research and teaching institutions on teaching research ethics, on various aspects of professional standards and ethical values in science including mentorship, and on neuroethics.

Eric Mazur

Professor of Physics and Applied Physics at Harvard University. An internationally recognized scientist and researcher, he leads a vigorous research program in optical physics and supervises one of the the largest research groups in the Physics Department at Harvard University.

After obtaining a Ph.D. degree in experimental physics at the University of Leiden in the Netherlands in 1981, Dr. Mazur came to Harvard University in 1982. In 1984 he joined the faculty and obtained tenure six years later. Dr. Mazur has made important contributions to spectroscopy, light scattering, the interaction of ultrashort laser pulses with materials, and nanophotonics.

In 1988 he was awarded a Presidential Young Investigator Award. He is Fellow of the Optical Society of America and Fellow of the American Physical Society, and has been named APS Centennial Lecturer during the Society's centennial year. In 2007 Mazur was appointed Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar. In 2008 Mazur received the Esther Hoffman Beller award from the Optical Society of America and the Millikan Medal from the American Association of Physics Teachers. Dr. Mazur has held appointments as Visiting Professor or Distinguished Lecturer at Princeton University, Vanderbilt University, the University of Leuven in Belgium, National Taiwan University in Taiwan, Carnegie Mellon University, and Hong Kong University.

In addition to his work in optical physics, Dr. Mazur is interested in education, science policy, outreach, and the public perception of science. He believes that better science education for all -- not just science majors -- is vital for continued scientific progress. To this end, Dr. Mazur devotes part of his research group's effort to education research and finding verifiable ways to improve science education. In 1990 he began developing Peer Instruction a method for teaching large lecture classes interactively. Dr. Mazur's teaching method has developed a large following, both nationally and internationally, and has been adopted across many science disciplines.

Dr. Mazur has served on numerous committees and councils, including advisory and visiting committees for the National Science Foundation, has chaired and organized national and international scientific conferences, and presented for the Presidential Committee of Advisors on Science and Technology. He serves as consultant to industry in the electronics and telecommunications industry. In 2006 he founded SiOnyx, a company that is commercializing black silicon, a new form of silicon developed in Mazur's laboratory. Mazur is currently Chairman of the Scientific Advisory Board for SiOnyx. Mazur is Chairman of the Instructional Strategy Advisory Group for Turning Technologies, a company developing interactive response systems for the education market. He also serves on the Scientific Advisory Panel for Allied Minds, a pre-seed investment company creating partnerships with key universities to fund corporate spin-outs in early stage technology companies, and on the Scientific Advisory Board for the Lifeboat Foundation, a nonprofit nongovernmental organization dedicated to encouraging scientific advancements.

Dr. Mazur is author or co-author of 225 scientific publications and 12 patents. He has also written on education and is the author of Peer Instruction: A User's Manual (Prentice Hall, 1997), a book that explains how to teach large lecture classes interactively. In 2006 he helped produce the award-winning DVD Interactive Teaching.