Abroad and from the younger generation, emerged people like Professor Ghassan Jabbour whose discoveries are widely appreciated and reported by both the professional and the mainstream media around the world (CNN, FoxNews,...).
Ghassan is Professor and Director of Research and Development Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering at Arizona State University, ASU Research Park. He holds degrees in Electrical Engineering, Physics, and Materials Science and Engineering. Professor Jabbour attended Northern Arizona University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and the University of Arizona (1994).
Dr Ghassan E. Jabbour
He has been selected to the Asahi Shimbun 100 New Leaders of the USA and he received the Presidential Award for Excellence from the Hariri Foundation, Washington D.C., in 1997. Professor Jabbour is the Associate Editor of the Journal of the Society for Information Display (JSID). He is the Track Chair of the Nanotechnology Program for the SPIE Annual Meeting.
Ghassan had been awarded the "fellow" title in the International Society for Optical Engineering , widely known as SPIE, which is a very prestigious membership that is only given to people who made distinct and unique scientific and technical contributions in the fields of optics and photonics, and imaging sciences.
Recently he was invited to give a talk at MRS Symposium X (Frontiers of Materials Research). Only 8 people from around the world are invited to such talks.
Prof. Jabbour has authored and co-authored over 300 publications, invited talks, and conference proceedings. He is the editor of several books and symposia proceedings involving organic photonics and electronics, and nanotechnology. Prof. Jabbour is the guest editor of the MRS Bulletin issue on “Organic Photovoltaics”. He is the Chair and/or Co-Chair of over 50 conferences related to photonic and electronic properties of organic materials and their applications in displays and lighting, hybrid photosensitive materials, and hybrid integration of semiconducting and nanotechnology.
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