Resume

Education

Ph.D. 1983; Chemical Engineering - Massachusetts Institute of Technology (minor: physics of solids)
B.S. 1978; Chemical Engineering - Pennsylvania State University (with high distinction)

Professional Experience

from 1/92

Assistant Professor, Department of Chemical & Materials Engineering, UAH

from 9/90

Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, Adjunct Assistant Professor, Joint Materials PhD Program, UAH

Summer 91

Visiting Fellow, Department of Physical Chemistry, University of New South Wales,Sydney, Australia

Investigated the properties of adhesion promoters on metal surfaces.

1987 - 90

Visiting Scientist, Fritz-Haber-Institut, Berlin, Germany

Determined the intermediates in methanol decomposition on nickel using pulsed field desorption mass spectrometry. Established the phase diagram of carbon monoxide on Rh(110) using low energy electron diffraction and thermal desorption spectroscopy.

1985 - 87

Research Scientist Laboratory for Surface Science & Technology, University of Maine

Managed industrial projects and cooperated in grants dealing with polyimide adhesion in integrated circuit devices. Studied segregation and oxidation on surfaces of solid and liquid lead-tin alloys using x-ray photoelectron and Auger electron spectroscopies.

1982 - 84

Postdoctoral Fakultät für Physik E20, Technische Universität München, Germany

Characterized the interactions of carbon monoxide with potassium on Ru(001) using x-ray and ultraviolet photoelectron, vibrational, and thermal desorption spectroscopies.

1978 - 82

Graduate Student, Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Investigated x-ray photoelectron and reaction properties of model supported catalysts.
Thesis: "Reactions of 2-Methyl-2-Butene and Hydrogen over Platinum on Sapphire, Quartz, and Carbon"

Professional Society Memberships

American Chemical Society - Secretary for the North Alabama Section (1994-95)
American Vacuum Society
Materials Research Society
American Institute of Chemical Engineers

Awards

Max-Planck-Stipend Fritz-Haber-Institut (1987 - 1989)
Shell Fellowship Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1978 - 1979)
AIChE Annual Chapter Scholarship Pennsylvania State University (1976)
Eric and Josephine A. Walker Award Pennsylvania State University (1976)

Funding

"FNAS SGC Distinguished Lecture Series on Materials in Space", NASA-MSFC for $2,500, 4/91 - 1/92.

"The Nature of Bonding at Surfaces of Diamond-Like Carbon Films", UAH Mini-Grant for $2,000, 1/92 - 12/93.

"Modification of Material Surfaces", NSF - EPSCoR Phase II (principal investigator J. M. Harris, UAH) for approx. $135,000, 6/92 - 8/95.

"Acquisition of a Scanning Tunneling Microscope and Atomic Force Microscope", Alabama EPSCoR, $96,000.

"Cleaning Metal Surfaces", Rockwell, Inc. for $10,000, 9/92 - 10/94.

"Surface Analysis", Bowden Industries, service contract, 12/94 - 11/95 (renewable).

"Biomaterials Technology Transfer", NSF - EPSCoR Phase III (principal investigator L. Lucas, UAB) for approx. $135,000, 9/95 - 8/98.

Personal

Born May 20, 1956 in Rochester, Pennsylvania. Fluent in German.
jjweimer@matsci.uah.edu
9.Jul.96