Tony Caruso, University of Missouri – Kansas City, Kansas City, MO
Anthony N. Caruso is an Assistant Professor of Physics at the University of Missouri – Kansas City. His research interests focus on understanding how electronic structure manifests and mediates the relationship between metallicity and magnetism in a range of solids, from organic-based thin films to bulk refractory semiconductors; many of which are probed at U5UA. As an NSLS constituent for the Synchrotron and Neutron Users Group (SNUG), Anthony has lobbied for Office of Science funding increases, emphasizing/educating the importance of synchrotron-based outcomes. He is collaborating heavily with beamline scientists and users as well as actively writing proposals for NSLS/NSLS-II endstation instrumentation to both the DoD and NSF. His overall intention is to promote and enhance the culture and interdisciplinary nature of synchrotron-based research, with as much graduate student involvement/education as is possible.

George Flynn, SUNY-Plattsburgh, Plattsburgh, NY
George Flynn is a Professor of Physics at SUNY-Plattsburgh. He has been an NSLS user since 1987, working initially on the analysis of extraterrestrial materials using an x-ray microprobe beamline (X26), and later analyzing the organic matter and minerals using infrared (U10A and U10B) spectroscopy and XANES (X1A) spectroscopy. He was a member of the Science Team for NASA’s Stardust spacecraft, which collected the first samples of a comet, and lead an international team of 82 researchers at 6 synchrotrons, including the NSLS, who performed the preliminary elemental analysis of these comet samples. He also served as PI on NASA grants to upgrade the X26A microprobe and X1A x-ray microscope beamlines to perform the Stardust sample analyses.

Gary P. Halada, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY
Gary Halada is an Associate Professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Stony Brook University. He is director of the Environmental Nanomaterials Research Group (ENRG), with expertise in electrochemical techniques, surface electron and ion beam spectroscopies, vibrational microspectroscopies and in situ studies, synchrotron IR and X-ray analysis, environmental remediation and surface engineering – with application to nanomaterials, coatings development, biogeochemical reactions, and environment/materials interactions. He has been a co-P.I. in the joint Stony Brook – BNL Center for Environmental Molecular Science which has been a major user of synchrotron facilities for environmental science applications, as well as P.I. on several DOE Office of Science funded programs on fate and transport of radionuclides and remediation. Dr. Halada is currently a member of National Academies Committee for Development and Implementation of a Cleanup Technology Roadmap for DOE’s Office of Environmental Management.

Bruce Ravel, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD
Bruce Ravel is a member of the Synchrotron Methods Group in the National Institute of Standards and Technology Ceramics Division and the local contact for X23A2, NIST's X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy beamline. Bruce has been an NSLS user since graduate school and has recently returned to the NSLS community after a stint at the APS. He is known for his contributions to XAS, including as a teacher at frequent training workshops and as co-author of a suite of XAS data analysis software. He is the spokesperson for the Beamline Advisory Team for the NSLS-II XAS Project Beamline.

Franz Weber, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA
Franz Weber is a Senior Staff Scientist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory concerned with the development and characterization of x-ray sources and diagnostic systems for laser produced plasmas in fusion research and various other applications. He has been with LLNL since 1993 in various capacities. He holds a Dipl.-Ing. degree in applied physics (1990), and a doctorate in technical sciences (Dr. technicae) in x-ray and atomic physics (1993) from Technical University Vienna in Austria. As an Erwin-Schrödinger-fellow, Franz worked on the non-destructive characterization of wafers by means of x-ray fluorescence analysis of light elements, particularly boron as the main p-type dopant in silicon for semiconductor applications. His general research interests include x-ray fluorescence analysis, x-ray optics, as well as nondestructive evaluation and materials analysis. Franz has experience using major synchrotron sources in the US, Europe and Asia. He is the current PRT chairman of the LLNL/LANL/SNL/NSTec metrology beamlines U3C and X8A at the NSLS. Franz actively supports NNSA/OBES dialog within DOE and advocates maintaining synchrotron based XUV and x-ray characterization and calibration capabilities at NSLS-II with synergistic opportunities for all users.

Don Weidner, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY
Don Weidner, a SUNY Distinguished Professor, is interested in high pressure studies applied to understanding the deep Earth. Spokesperson for the multi-anvil high pressure beamline (X17B2), he has been an active synchrotron user since the early 90’s. He is Director of the Mineral Physics Institute at Stony Brook and Professor in the Geosciences Department. He is currently a member of the COMPRES executive committee and the scientific advisory committee of the Advanced Photon Source.