DR. ALAN GARSCADDEN Dr. Alan Garscadden, a member of the scientific and professional cadre of senior executives, is Chief Scientist, Propulsion Directorate, Air Force Research Laboratory, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, and Edwards Air Force Base, Calif. He serves as technical adviser to the laboratory commander on a wider spectrum of aeronautical research, including many facets of propulsion, aerospace power, hypersonics, laser physics, combustion and plasma phenomena and applications. Dr. Garscadden, a native of Glasgow, Scotland, is known for his work in theoretical and experimental basic and applied research in nonequilibrium plasmas and energized gas flows, lasers, laser-based measurements, plasma-processing of thin films, optical and mass spectroscopic measurements, electron impact cross sections and their influence on electron transport and the derivation of collision cross sections from transport data. Dr. Garscadden has authored more than 250 publications and presentations and served on many organizing committees for both national and international meetings and symposiums, some of which were held in the United Kingdom, Japan and Europe. Dr. Garscadden has served on various technical committees and several professional societies; reviewed more than 400 publications; has authored several book chapters and has conducted approximately 120 invited lectures and presentations to peer audiences, including plenary talks at international meetings. He has served as thesis adviser and adjunct professor for several local and national universities, and has been a research fellow at Wright Laboratory since 1988. He has been involved in various consultations and calculations on Department of Defense activities involving different diverse areas such as lasers, hypersonics, combustors, and laser and IR sources. EDUCATION 1958 Bachelor of Science degree in physics, with honors, Queens University of Belfast 1962 Doctor of Philosophy in physics, Queens University of Belfast CAREER CHRONOLOGY 1. 1962 - 1975, research physicist, later, Director, Plasma Physics Laboratory, Aerospace Research Laboratories 2. 1975 - 1995, research physicist, later, Chief Scientist, Aero Propulsion and Power Directorate 3. 1995 - 1997, Chief Scientist, Wright Laboratory, Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio 4. 1997 - present, Chief Scientist, Propulsion Directorate, Air Force Research Laboratory, Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio, and Edwards AFB, Calif. AWARDS AND HONORS Research Fellow Award, Wright Laboratory USAF Basic Research Award 2003 Meritorious Executive Presidential Rank Award 2007 Distinguished Senior Professional Presidential Rank Award OTHER ACHIEVEMENTS 1969 - present, adjunct professor, Air Force Institute of Technology 1987 - 1989, adjunct professor, University of Oklahoma 1988 - present, research fellow, Wright Laboratory (now AFRL Fellow) 1989 - 1994, adjunct professor, University of Texas PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS AND ASSOCIATIONS Fellow, American Physical Society Fellow, Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers Fellow, AIAA Fellow, Institute of Physics (United Kingdom) Former member, National Research Council Committee on plasma processing and data base Former member, National Research Council Committee on plasma sciences Past chairman, Gaseous Electronics Conference Past chairman, Gordon Conference on plasma chemistry Invited speaker at NATO Advanced Study Institutes Invited speaker at European meetings on atomic and molecular physics Former member, AIAA Technical Committee on plasma dynamics Former associate editor, Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers Plasma Sciences Journal Former joint editor, Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers Plasma Sciences Journal Special Issue Technical committees for the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, Strategic Defense Initiative Organization and NATO Editorial Board, Plasma Sources Science and Technology Advisory Board, Aerospace Engineering Department, University of Cincinnati Advisory Board, Aerospace Engineering Department, The Ohio State University (Current as of October 2009)