New Faculty Virginia Tech's College of Engineering 2008-2009

etary magnetic field control ionospheric plasma convection
at middle to high latitudes. For his Ph.D. dissertation he used
spacecraft auroral images and data assimilation techniques
with ground-based magnetometers to study geomagnetic activity
at high latitudes. He also participated in yearly trips to the
Greenland icecap to install and maintain magnetometer instrumentation.
As a post-doctoral fellow at the APL, he began working
with the Super Dual Auroral Radar Network (SuperDARN).
Two topics he has used SuperDARN data to study are: heating
of the upper atmosphere due to ionospheric currents; and
convection at middle latitudes associated with magnetic storms
and sub-auroral processes. He has also compared
SuperDARN data with spacecraft measurements to better
understand the electrical connectivity between the magnetosphere
and ionosphere along magnetic field lines.
Among his honors, Baker was given the 2004 JHU APL
Publication Award. He received first class honors in 1993 from
the University of New England. He also won the Australian
Institute of Physics NSW Branch Prize the same year. He is a
member of the American Geophysical Union.
Marius Orlowski is the Virginia
Microelectronics Consortium (VMEC)
Chair at Virginia Tech and a professor of
the Bradley Department of Electrical and
Computer Engineering. Orlowski brings to
Virginia Tech extensive industry experience
coupled with an outstanding publication
record, and an exciting vision for future
university-based research in the microelectronics
field.
Orlowski
Orlowski earned all three of his degrees
from Tuebingen University in Germany where he was
also a member of the faculty. His master’s degree was in experimental
physics and his Ph.D. was in theoretical nuclear
physics in 1976 and in 1979, respectively. He started as an
assistant professor for theoretical physics at Tuebingen University
in 1979, became a visiting scholar at Stanford University in
1981, and a staff member of the Physics Department at Purdue
University in 1982.
From 1984 to 1989 he was with Siemens Semiconductor
Research Laboratories in Munich and in 1989 he joined
Motorola’s Advanced Products Research and Development
Laboratory in Austin, Texas. From 1995 to 1998 he was the
director of Motorola’s Research Laboratory in Moscow, Russia.
In 2000, he became the Fellow of Technical Staff at Motorola.
From 2006 to 2007 he was a co-director at the Crolles Alliance
Research Center in Grenoble, France and responsible for the
development of the fully depleted SOI and multi-channel devices
as well as of the back-end modules.
Orlowski has more than 150 publications in prestigious
scientific journals and conference proceedings. He has
presented invited/keynote talks at a score of premier conferences.
He has 59 patents issued and 28 pending. His present
research interests include exploration of nano-CMOS devices
and the leverage of advanced wafer substrates.
Orlowski received the Freescale Master Innovator Award
and the Platinum Silver Quill (publication) Award by Motorola.
He has also been recognized with a Distinguished Innovator
Award, a Fellow of Technical Staff at Motorola/Freescale, and
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