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Neal Shinn received the B.S. degree in Chemistry and Mathematics from the
Pennsylvania State University in 1978 and the Ph.D. degree in Chemical
Physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1983. Thereafter,
he was a National Research Council Post-Doctoral Fellow at the National
Institute of Standards and Technology, where his research involved the
elucidation of surface reaction intermediates using vibrational and
electronic spectroscopies in conjunction with thermal and stimulated
desorption. In 1985, he joined Sandia National Laboratories as a Senior
Member of the Technical Staff, later becoming the Manager of the Surface and
Interface Science Department.
Dr. Shinn’s research aims to elucidate the structure and ensemble dynamic
properties of self-assembled monolayers and ultra-thin fluid phases on solid
surfaces. He is also an Adjunct Professor in the Physics Department of Utah
State University, where he conducts collaborative research on the electronic
structure at materials interfaces. He has published over 80 scientific
papers and has served on DOE and NIH review panels. He is an officer in
National and international professional organizations.
Dr. Shinn was recently named the interim Outreach Coordinator for the DOE
Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies, a collaborative nanoscience research
center being developed jointly by Los Alamos and Sandia National
Laboratories for the DOE Office of Science. The differentiating strength of
this nanoscience Center is its focus on the integration of research
discoveries into technology platforms that couple to the microscopic and
macroscopic worlds.
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