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Bob R. Keller (Fed)
Leader, Nanoscale Reliability Group, Applied Chemicals & Materials Division, NIST Material Measurement Laboratory
Dr. Keller has served as a Group Leader and Project Leader in the Applied Chemicals & Materials Division in NIST's Material Measurement Laboratory, after receiving a National Research Council Post-Doctoral Fellowship in 1993. He has spent time working abroad, first as a visiting scientist at the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg in Germany from 1991-1992, and later during a NIST sabbatical at the Max-Planck-Institute for Metals Research in Stuttgart, Germany from 2000-2001. He holds a B.S. and a Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering, both from the University of Minnesota. Bob's research interests lie in deformation of materials, failure analysis, reliability testing & physics, and electron microscopy.
Professional Activities:
Symposium Organizer, Advances in Scanning Electron Microscopy: Transmission Modes and Channeling Effects, M & M (2017)
Organizer, NIST-MML Workshop on Electron Microscopy Frontiers: Opportunities and Challenges, NIST (2017)
Organizer, NIST Workshop on Analytical Transmission Scanning Electron Microscopy (2015)
Symposium Organizer, Carbon-Based Electronic Devices – Processing, Performance, and Reliability, MRS (2010) - you will be leaving NIST webspace when selecting this link
Member, Material Measurement Laboratory People Council, NIST (2007 to 2014)
Member, Boulder Editorial Review Board, NIST (2006 to 2009)
Organizer, NIST-NSF-CU Workshop on Materials Characterization for Nanoscale Reliability (2007)
Organizer, NIST-NSF-CU Workshop on Reliability Issues in Nanomaterials (2004)
Member, NIST Research Advisory Committee (1999-2001)
Symposium Organizer, Materials Reliability in Microelectronics VII, MRS (1997) - you will be leaving NIST webspace when selecting this link
Professional society affiliations: Materials Research Society, TMS, Microscopy Society of America
Semiconductor Research Corporation – technical advisory board member, nanoelectronics research initiative team member
Awards
CO-LABS Governor's Award for High-Impact Research – 2017
U.S. Department of Commerce Silver Award – 2016
U.S. Department of Commerce Bronze Award – 2008
National Research Council Post-Doctoral Fellowship – 1993