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Dr. David N. Ruzic Director of the Center for Plasma Material Interactions at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He really enjoys teaching and tries to blow something up during every lecture.

Dr. David N. Ruzic is the Director of the Center for Plasma Material Interactions at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is a full professor in the Department of Nuclear, Plasma, and Radiological Engineering and affiliated with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Department of Physics, having joined the faculty in 1984. His current research interests center on plasma processing for the microelectronics industry (deposition, etching, EUV lithography and particle removal) and on fusion energy research. Prof. Ruzic is a Fellow of the American Nuclear Society and of the American Vacuum Society. He is the author of the AVS monograph, Electric Probes for Low Temperature Plasmas, numerous book chapters, patents, and over 120 refereed journal articles. He obtained his PhD and MS in Physics from PrincetonUniversity, and his BS degree in Physics and Applied Math from PurdueUniversity. He really enjoys teaching and tries to blow something up during every lecture.