Where are the electrons?
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Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, SPAIN
Xavier Oriols received his BS and MS in Physics from the Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona (UAB) in 1993 and 1994 respectively. During 1997, he worked at the Institute d' Electronique, Microelectronics and Nanotechnology in Lille (France). He received his doctoral degree in Electronic Engineering from UAB in 1999 with an extraordinary doctoral award. During 2002 he was a visiting professor at the State University of New York (USA). He is full professor of electronics in the UAB and has authored more than 150 contributions to scientific journals and conferences. He is author of the book "Applied Bohmian Mechanics: from nanoscale system to cosmology" and he has developed the device simulator BITLLES (http://europe.uab.es/bitlles). In 2008, he received the prize for young researchers in the framework of the Spanish I3 Program and the prize for research excellence in 2008 and 2010. The research activity of Dr. Oriols combines both his practical interest in quantum nanodevices, and his interest in the foundations of quantum mechanics, in general, and in Bohmian mechanics, in particular. His research covers a wide spectrum, from fundamental issues of physics to practical engineering.
Arizona State University, USA
David Ferry is Regents’ Professor Emeritus in the School of Electrical, Computer, and Energy Engineering at Arizona State University. He was also graduate faculty in the Department of Physics and the Materials Science and Engineering program at ASU, as well as Visiting Professor at Chiba University in Japan. He came to ASU in 1983 following shorter stints at Texas Tech University, the Office of Naval Research, and Colorado State University. In the distant past, he received his doctorate from the University of Texas, Austin, and spent a postdoctoral period at the University of Vienna, Austria. He continues active research. The latter is focused on semiconductors, particularly as they apply to nanotechnology and integrated circuits, as well as quantum effects in devices. In 1999, he received the Cledo Brunetti Award from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, and is a Life Fellow of this group as well as Fellow of the American Physical Society and the Institute of Physics (UK). He is the author, co-author, or editor of some 50 books and about 900 refereed scientific contributions.