JERZY (JERRY) BERNHOLC

 

Personal

U.S. citizen. Married, two children.

 

 

Education

B.S., major in both Physics and Mathematics, University of Lund, Sweden, with Highest Scholastic Honors, 1973.

 

Ph.D., Physics, University of Lund, Sweden, 1977.

 

 

Address

Center for High Performance Simulations, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695-7518, phone (919) 515-3126; fax (919) 513-4804; email: bernholc@ncsu.edu.

 

 

Professional Experience

Drexel Professor of Physics and Director, Center for High Performance Simulation, 2004-present; Drexel Professor of Physics, 2000-2004; Professor 1990 - 2000; Associate Professor, 1986-1990.

 

 

 

Senior Physicist, Corporate Research Science Laboratories, Exxon Research and Engineering Company, Clinton, NJ, 1980-1986.

 

 

 

Postdoc, International Business Machines (IBM), Inc. Research Division, Yorktown Heights, NY, 1978-1980.

 

 

Concurrent Positions

Visiting Distinguished Scientist, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, 7/02 – present.

 

 

 

Visiting Associate, Department of Chemistry, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, 2/82-3/82.

 

 

 

Visiting Scientist, Department of Theoretical Physics, University of Lund, Sweden, 9/78-12/78.

 

 

Research Interests

Theoretical condensed matter physics, materials science and chemistry; computational physics, electronic structure theory, nanoscale science and technology, nano and molecular electronics, nanotubes, surfaces and interfaces, impurities in semiconductors, multiscale methods, parallel computation.

 

 

Honors and Awards

Jesse Beams Award for Outstanding Research, Southeastern Section of the American Physical Society, 2003.

 

Marquis Who's Who in the World, 2002-.

 

Chair, Division of Computational Physics, American Physical Society, 2003-4. (Vice Chair, 2001-2, Chair Elect, 2002-3, Past Chair, 2004-5.)

 

Marquis Who's Who in America, 2001-.

 

Finalist, Computerworld Smithsonian Science Award, 1997.

 

Creativity extension for FY97 and 98, NSF, 1996.

 

Nominee for Computerworld Smithsonian Technology Leadership Award for Breakthrough Computational Science, 1993.

 

Alumni Outstanding Research Award, NCSU, 1992.

 

Fellow, American Physical Society, 1991.

 

American Men and Women of Science, 1982-

 

"Outstanding Innovation Award" for work on "Electronic Structure of Point Defects in Solids," IBM Research Division, 1979.

 

The King Oscar the IInd Award, Sweden, 1978.

 

Lund Mathematical Society Award, Sweden, 1972.

 

 

Boards and Panels

Board of Directors, Telluride Research Center, 1986-92.

 

Joint Peer Review Board for the Pittsburgh and Illinois Supercomputing Centers, 1988-91.

 

Technical Advisory Council of the North Carolina Supercomputing Center, 1990-92.

 

NSF Panel on High Performance Computing and Communications, Washington, DC, August 1992.

 

ONR Panel on Foreign Field Offices, Lansdowne, VA, August 1992.

 

NCSU representative, Academic Affiliates of the Pittsburgh Super­computing Center, 1993-7.

 

Committee on Hardware Upgrades, NC Supercomputing Center, 1993-94.

 

Panel on massively parallel computing, Fifth Conference on Computational Research on Materials, Morgantown, West Virginia, May 1995.

 

Chair, North Carolina Committee on Partnerships for Advanced Computational Infrastructure, 1996-9.

 

NC Supercomputing Center Hardware Upgrade Committee 1997-present.

 

NC Supercomputing Center's Advisory Group, 1998-present.

 

Leader of Nanomaterials/Electronic Structure Team, National Computational Science Alliance (NCSA), 1998-2002.

 

Executive Committee, National Computational Science Alliance (NCSA), 1998-2002.

 

Specialist Editor in Computational Materials Science, Computer Physics Communications, Elsevier, 1998-2002.

 

Committee of Visitors, NSF, Supercomputing Centers and Computational Infrastructure Program, May 1999.

 

Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Review Committee for Advanced Scientific Computing, FY2001 Director's R&D Fund, August 2000.

 

Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Review Committee for Advanced Scientific Computing, FY2002 Director's R&D Fund, August 2001.

 

Testimony to NSF's Blue Ribbon Panel on Cyber Infrastructure, December 2001.

 

Chair, Fellowship Committee of the Division of Computational Physics of the APS, 2002.

 

Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Review Committee for Advanced Scientific Computing, FY2003 Director's R&D Fund, August 2002.

 

Scientific Advisory Committee of the Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, 2002 - present.

 

Steering Committee of the Nanomaterials Theory Institute, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, 2002 - present.

 

Panel on Grand Challenges in Nanotechnology. Annual Meeting of American Institute of Chemical Engineers, Indianapolis, Indiana, November 2002.

 

Strategic Planning Workshop, Office of Science, Department of Energy, Washington, D.C., January 2003.

 

Advisory Committee, Division of Computer Science and Mathematics, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, 2003-present.

 

Workshop on Grand Challenges in Nanomaterials: Panels on Virtual Materials and on Binary Logic, NSF, Arlington, VA, June 2003.

 

Workshop on the "Science Case for Large-scale Simulation," Panel on Nanoscience, DOE, Arlington, VA, June 2003.

 

Review panel of Materials Sciences Division of Lawrence Berkeley Laboratories, San Francisco, CA, August 2003.

 

Ad Hoc Committee on Condensed Matter Physics, APS, Washington, DC, September 2003.

 

Chair, Fellowship Committee of the Division of Computational Physics of the APS, 2004.

 

Testimony to DOE Basic Energy Sciences Advisory Committee, subcommittee on "Challenges and Opportunities in Theory and Computation," April 2004.

 

Chair, Committee on Government Relations, Division of Computational Physics of the APS, 2004.

 

Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Review Committee for Advanced Scientific Computing, FY2005 Director's R&D Fund, August 2004.

 

Member, Jesse Beams Award Committee, Southeastern Section of the American Physical Society, 2004.

 

Rahman Prize Committee, American Physical Society, Vice Chair, 2004, Chair 2005.

 

Workshop on "Basic Research Needs for Effective Solar Energy Utilization," Panel on "Crosscutting Areas: New Tools," DOE, Bethesda, Maryland, April 2005.

 

Chair, Scientific Advisory Committee of the Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, 2005 - present.

 

NSF Review Panel of the Center of Integrated Nanomechanical Systems" (COINS) at UC Berkeley, May 2005.

 

Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Review Committee for Advanced Scientific Computing, FY2005 Director's R&D Fund, July 2005.

 

Chair, Users Group, National Center for Computational Sciences, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, 2005-present.

 

Roundtable Panel on Nanotechnology for Energy and Environment, First NCSU Workshop on Nanotechnology for Energy and Environment, October 2005.

 

Advisory Committee, National Center for Computational Sciences, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, 2005-present.

 

Member, Scientific Editorial Board, Computational Science and  Discovery Journal, Institute of Physics, 2006-present.

 

NSF Review Panel of the Network for Computation Nanotechnology at Purdue University, June 2006.

 

Review Panel of the Predictive Science Academic Alliance Program, DOE, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, August 2006.

 

 

Program and Organizing Committees

Program Committee, Symposium on High Tempera­ture Superconducting Materials, Chapel Hill, September 1987.

 

Co-Organizer, Symposium on "Impurities, Defects and Diffusion in Semiconductors: Bulk and Layered Structures," MRS Fall Meeting, November 1989.

 

Co-Organizer, Symposium on "Clusters and Cluster-Assembled Materials," MRS Fall Meeting, November 1990.

 

Co-Organizer, C60 Postdeadline Session, APS March Meeting, Cincinnati, Ohio, 1991.

 

Co-Organizer, C60 Focused Session, APS March Meeting, Indianapolis, Indiana, 1992.

 

Chairman, Organizing Committee, The Fourth Annual Workshop on Recent Developments in Electronic Structure Algorithms, Raleigh, NC, May 1992.

 

Program Committee, 7th Trieste Semiconductor Symposium on Wide-Band-Gap Semiconductors, Trieste, Italy, June 1992.

 

Organizer, National Technological University course, "Buckyballs and Buckytubes: Novel Carbon-Based Nanomaterials," broadcast nationwide by satellite, June 1992.

 

Program Committee, Gordon Conference on Point Defects, Line Defects and Interfaces in Semiconductors, Plymouth, NH, July 1992.

 

Organizing Committee, 6th International Symposium on Small Particles and Inorganic Clusters, Chicago, September 1992.

 

Organizing Committee, The Fifth Annual Workshop on Recent Developments in Electronic Structure Algorithms, State College, PA, May 1993.

 

Organizing Committee, The Sixth Annual Workshop on Recent Developments in Electronic Structure Algorithms, Santa Barbara, CA, June 1994.

 

Organizing Committee, The Seventh Annual Workshop on Recent Developments in Electronic Structure Algorithms, St. Mary's College, Maryland, May 1995.

 

Co-organizer, Symposium on Recent Progress in Computational Materials Science, IV Intern. Conf. on Advanced Materials, Cancun, Mexico, August 1995.

 

Program Committee, The Third Intern. Symp. on Atomically Controlled Surfaces and Interfaces, Raleigh, NC, October 1995.

 

Organizing Committee, The Seventh Annual Workshop on Recent Developments in Electronic Structure Algorithms, Minneapolis, Minnesota, June 1996.

 

Co-organizer, CECAM workshop on Grid, Multigrid and Wavelet Methods in Electronic Structure Calculations, Lyon, France, July 1996.

 

Discussion Leader, Gordon Conference on Point and Line Defects in Semiconductors, Andover, New Hampshire, August 1996.

 

Symposium on Wide-Gap Nitrides, APS March meeting, Kansas City, Missouri, 1997.

 

Organizing Committee, Symposium on Quantum Theory and Simulation of Bulk, Surface and Interface Phenomena, Raleigh, NC, June 1997.

 

Organizing Committee, The Ninth Annual Workshop on Recent Developments in Electronic Structure Algorithms, Ithaca, New York, May 1997.

 

Organizing Committee, The Tenth Annual Workshop on Recent Developments in Electronic Structure Algorithms, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, May 1998.

 

Co-organizer, 1998 Division of Materials Physics Focused Session on III-V Nitride Semiconductors, APS March Meeting, Los Angeles, California (1998).

 

Organizing Committee, The Eleventh Annual Workshop on Recent Developments in Electronic Structure Algorithms, Urbana, Illinois, May 1999.

 

Co-chairman, NATO Research Workshop on Multiscale Computational Methods in Chemistry and Biology, Israel, April 2000.

 

Organizing Committee, The Twelve Annual Workshop on Recent Developments in Electronic Structure Algorithms, Atlanta, Georgia, May 2000.

 

Co-organizer, Division of Materials Physics Focused Session on Multiscale Modeling of Materials: From Atoms to Devices, APS March Meeting, Seattle, Washington (2001).

 

Organizing Committee, The Thirteenth Annual Workshop on Recent Developments in Electronic Structure Algorithms, Princeton, New Jersey, June 2001.

 

Discussion Leader, ORNL Nanophase Materials Sciences Workshop, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, October 2001.

 

Discussion Leader, Workshop on Computational Modeling in Science and Engineering Education, Research Triangle Park, February 2002.

 

Symposium on "Computational Physics on the Nanoscale," APS March Meeting, 2002.

 

Organizing Committee, The Fourteenth Annual Workshop on Recent Developments in Electronic Structure Algorithms, Berkeley, California, June 2002.

 

Discussion Leader, Second ORNL Nanophase Materials Sciences Workshop, Knoxville, Tennessee, June 2002.

 

Member, Program Committee, International Conference on Computational Physics, San Diego, California, September 2002.

 

Organizing Committee, The Fifteenth Annual Workshop on Recent Developments in Electronic Structure Algorithms, Minneapolis, Minnesota, May 2003.

 

Chair, Program Committee, Division of Computational Physics of the APS, 2003.

 

Symposium on "Computational Physics on the Nanoscale," APS March Meeting, 2003.

 

Symposium on "Computational Biophysics" APS March Meeting, 2003.

 

Member, Scientific Committee, 7th International Conference on Intermolecular and Magnetic Interactions in Matter, Miedzyzdroje, Poland, September 2003.

 

Member, Program Committee, Division of Computational Physics of the APS, 2004.

 

Member, Program Committee, Southeastern Section of the APS, 2003.

 

Organizing Committee, The Sixteenth Annual Workshop on Recent Developments in Electronic Structure Algorithms, New Brunswick, New Jersey, May 2004.

 

Symposium on "Computational Materials Science" APS March Meeting