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Ghassan E. Jabbour is the Technical Area Leader of Optoelectronic Materials and Devices at the Flexible Display Center (FDC) and a Professor of Chemical and Materials Engineering at Arizona State University. He is also the Technical Advisory Board Leader on Optoelectronic Materials, Devices and Encapsulation at FDC. He has been selected to the Asahi Shimbun 100 New Leaders of the USA and he received the Presidential Award for Excellence from the Hariri Foundation in 1997. Professor Jabbour is the Associate Editor of the Journal of the Society for Information Displays (JSID). He was the Track Chair of the Nanotechnology Program for the SPIE Annual Meeting (2001-2004), and the Secretary General for the Materials Secretariat of the American Chemical Society (2001). Professor Jabbour is a guest editor for the MRS Bulletin issue on Organic Photovoltaics to appear in 2005. Professor Jabbour is the chair and/or co-chair and on the committees of over 50 conferences related to photonic and electronic properties of organic materials and their applications in displays and lighting, transistors and solar cells, hybrid photosensitive materials, and hybrid integration of semiconducting materials. He has more than 300 publications, invited talks and proceedings. Prof. Jabbour’s research interests are related to: flexible-roll-to-roll-electronics and displays, smart textile, moisture and oxygen barrier technology, transparent conductors, organic light emitting devices, organic and hybrid photovoltaics, organic memory storage, organic thin film transistors, combinatorial discovery of materials, nano and macro printed devices, micro and nanofabrication, biosensors, and quantum simulations of electronic materials His work has been highlighted in national and international journals and magazines including Nature, Science, PC Magazine, Wired Magazine, LA Times, Boston Globe, Financial Times (London), USA Today, and many others. Professor Jabbour attended Northern Arizona University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and the University of Arizona. Prof. Jabbour is an SPIE fellow. | 