supercomputer
and prototype for NORAD and stationed at the
MIT Lincoln Laboratory.
While in college at Clarkson he returned to
work summers at IBM on thin magnetic film memory development, silicon
epitaxial film growth and laser spectroscopy. His Harvard PhD
thesis addressed the optical properties and band structure of
semiconductor thin films.
Upon
completing graduate school, Dr. Grant was posted to the IBM San Jose
Research Laboratory where he pursued a variety of basic research studies
on the physical properties of magnetic semiconductors, organic and
polymer metals, and high temperature superconductors and participated in
the initial development of laboratory automation software and systems.
His IBM career also included management and divisional executive staff
responsibilities to evaluate IBM’s printer, storage and display
technologies. In addition, he served a two-year sabbatical as IBM
Visiting Professor of Materials Science at the National University of
Mexico.
In 1993, Dr. Grant retired from IBM to accept
a position as Science Fellow at EPRI where he oversaw a variety of
exploratory studies on wide bandgap semiconductors and power
applications of superconductivity, and served as a consultant to EPRI’s
executive management and utility membership on a broad range of energy
science issues. He retired from EPRI in early 2004 to undertake a
variety of personal and professional interests.
Dr. Grant has published over 100 papers in
scientific peer-reviewed journals, as well as numerous articles on
science and energy issues in the popular press and interviews on
television which have earned him several awards as a science writer and
commentator. He is a co-inventor on the international base patent for
high temperature superconductivity and consults regularly with the US
Department of Energy on power applications of superconductivity. Dr.
Grant is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and has served on
the Executive Committees of the Society for Industrial Physics and
Education, as well as on the editorial
advisory board of The Industrial Physicist. In 2005, he was
appointed a Fellow of the Institute of Physics and a Visiting
Scholar in Applied Physics at Stanford University.