The president-elect of the AVS Science and Technology Society for 2005 is Christie Marrian. He succeeds David Aspnes (see Physics Today, January 2004, page 65), who is now the society’s president. Marrian will become president in 2006.

Marrian studied electrical engineering at Cambridge University; there he received his BA in 1973 and his PhD in 1978. After spending three years at CERN, he joined the surface physics branch at the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, DC, in 1980.

Five years later, Marrian started NRL’s first program in nanoelectronics; he became head of the nanoelectronics processing facility there in 1993. From 1998 to 2001, he worked in the microsystems technology office at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. He subsequently moved to IBM, where he is the manager of device and systems innovation at the company’s Almaden Research Center in San Jose, California. His research interests are nanofabrication...

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