Dr. Stefan Zollner received his Ph.D. in Semiconductor Physics in 1991 from Universität Stuttgart (Germany) with research performed at the Max-Planck-Institute for Solid State Research. After a postdoctoral position at IBM Yorktown Heights, he accepted a tenure-track faculty position at Iowa State University in 1992. From 1997 to 2010, he held various engineering and management positions at Motorola, Freescale Semiconductor, and IBM related to semiconductor process development (CMOS, BiCMOS, GaAs). Since 2010, he has been Professor and Physics Department Head at New Mexico State University in Las Cruces.
Dr. Zollner has published about 180 journal articles and chapters and given nearly 300 conference presentations. Since 2010, his external research expenditures at NMSU have been over 1.6 million dollars. He is an IEEE Senior Member and a Fellow of the American Physical Society and the American Vacuum Society. During the 2018/19 academic year, he was a visiting researcher at the Air Force Research Laboratory (Albuquerque, NM, and Dayton, OH) and the Institute of Physics at the Czech Academy of Sciences in Prague, Czech Republic.
Research Description
Dr. Zollner’s research investigates the optical constants of solids using spectroscopic ellipsometry.