NPRE Prof. David N. Ruzic was invested as a Bliss Professor in the College of Engineering on, Friday, November 11, in the auditorium of the Beckman Institute of Science and Technology.
Ruzic is the first NPRE faculty member to have been honored with a named professorship. With his family, several colleagues and many graduate students in attendance, Ruzic was among seven College of Engineering faculty to have been invested during the ceremony. Photos from the event can be viewed on the NPRE at Illinois Facebook page.
A member of NPRE’s team since 1984, Ruzic has made tremendous contributions to the international store of knowledge on experimental fusion research and plasma technology. He founded and directs the Center for Plasma-Material Interactions, which studies particle-surface interactions relevant to fusion power and materials processing systems through a combination of computational and experimental means.
Ruzic is a world-leading researcher in the creation of EUV (extreme ultraviolet) lithography sources and associated equipment for creating semiconductor chips at ever increasingly smaller nodes. He has been an invited speaker on this subject at many international conferences.