| Biography |
Dean Sieglaff
received a Bachelor of Arts cum
laude from Saint Olaf College,
Northfield, Minnesota
in 1988, where he majored in physics and mathematics. He received a
Master of Arts and Doctor of Philosophy from Rice University,
Houston, Texas, by 1993, for work in the area of experimental atomic
collisions, particularly those involving atomic oxygen. Dean also met
and married his wife Kristin during his time in Houston.
Dean took a post-doctoral research fellowship with the Pacific Northwest National
Laboratory, at the Hanford
Nuclear Reservation outside of Richland,
Washington,
working in an analytical chemistry group in the area of
electron-molecule physics and negative ion mass spectrometry. He also
started teaching at that time as an adjunct faculty member of Columbia
Basin College, Pasco,
Washington.
In 1995, he received an assistant professorship with the Department of
Physics, Grove City College, Grove City, Pennsylvania.
During his time at Grove
City College,
Dean continued to carry out atomic and electronic collisions research
at Rice University′s Atomic
and
Molecular Collisions Group in
the summers. In January of 2001, Dean and family moved to the San
Francisco Bay Area to take an electron beam engineering job with the
silicon valley-based KLA-Tencor
Corporation, the world leader in
semiconductor yield management. Called back to the life and work of
professor in the liberal arts, Dean began a tenure-track associate
professorship with the Department
of
Physics and Astronomy, Augustana
College, Rock Island,
Illinois
in the fall of 2004. Dean continued to work as scientific consultant
with KLA-Tencor, developing test targets and methods for characterizing
highly sensitive light-optical subsystems in support of electron beam
technologies for semiconductor defect review solutions. In the fall of
2008, Dean began a tenure-track associate professorship with the Department
of Physics and Astronomy, Nebraska
Wesleyan
University, Lincoln,
Nebraska.
Dean recently
received a
significant amount of equipment from Rice University
for the experimental study of electronic and atomic collisions, which
he is currently bringing to an operating state with the help of his
students, in the hope of continuing and extending the world-class
experimental measurements for which the Rice lab was well known. The
lab is currently housed in Nebraska Wesleyan
University's
Olin Hall of Science, Room H.
Recent work in the lab is
highlighted in this poster.
Dean and his
wife Kristin have
three sons Sander (age 12), Jonas (age 10), and Charles (age 8).
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