43rd IUPAC Council Meeting
Nominee for Bureau
Elsa Reichmanis
(USA)
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Elsa Reichmanis
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Dr. Reichmanis research interests include the chemistry, properties,
and application of materials technologies for photonic and electronic
applications, with particular focus on polymeric and nanostructured
materials for advanced communications technologies
Education and Career
Reichmanis is Bell Labs fellow and director of the Materials Research
Department at Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies. She received her
Ph.D. and B.S. degrees in chemistry from Syracuse University, and joined
Bell Labs in 1978 after completing a post-doctoral fellowship program.
IUPAC Involvement
Reichmanis has been active in IUPAC throughout her career. She was a
member of the U.S. National Committee for IUPAC for six years and has
served on the U.S. delegation to the IUPAC General Assembly three times.
She has been active in the Macromolecular Division of IUPAC, having
served a term as a titular member.
Related Professional Activities
In 2003, Reichmanis was president of the American Chemical Society (ACS).
She is past-chair of the ACS Polymeric Materials Science and Engineering
Division and has served as a member of the executive committee of the
division since 1986. She is a member of the ACS Committee on Science
and has served on the ACS Publications Committee and the Chemical and
Engineering News Editorial Board, and is associate editor of the ACS
journal Chemistry of Materials.
In other technical capacities, Dr. Reichmanis has served as a member
of the Japanese Technology Evaluation Program Panel in Advanced Materials,
the U.S. National Research Council (NRC) Committee to Survey Materials
Research Opportunities and Needs for the Electronics Industry, and the
NRC Committee on Policy Implications on International Students and Postdoctoral
Scholars in the United States. She is also a former member of the NRC
National Materials Advisory Board. Currently, she serves on the NRC
Board on Chemical Sciences and Technology.
Awards
Reichmanis has received numerous awards, including the 1993 Society
of Women Engineers Achievement Award. She was elected to the U.S. National
Academy of Engineering in 1995 and named Bell Laboratories Fellow that
year. She was the 1996 recipient of the ASM Engineering Materials Achievement
Award, and was elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement
of Science in 1998. She was awarded the 1999 ACS Award in Applied Polymer
Science, the 2001 Society of Chemical Industry Perkin Medal, and the
Arents Medal from Syracuse University. In 2004, she was elected as a
Foreign Member of the Latvian Academy of Sciences. She is also a member
of the American Physical Society, the Materials Research Society, the
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, and the Society of
Photo-optical Engineers.
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