Fred Roozeboom
Fred Roozeboom received his MSc cum laude at Universiteit Utrecht (UU) in 1976 and PhD on topics in catalysis at Universiteit Twente (UT) in 1980. He joined UT’s faculty again in 2021 after working at ExxonMobil (1980-1983); Philips Research (now NXP Research, 1983-2009); TNO Holst Centre (2009-2021); and Technische Universiteit Eindhoven (2007-2021). Prof. Roozeboom received NXP’s Bronze Invention of the Year 2007 Award and became a Research Fellow there. With TNO’s spatial processing team, he received the 2011 European Association of Research & Technology Organizations (EARTO) Innovation Award. He was elected Fellow of The Electrochemical Society in 2014 and Fellow of the American Vacuum Society in 2023. ECS honored Prof. Roozeboom with the 2023 ECS Gordon E. Moore Medal for Outstanding Achievement in Solid State Science & Technology.
Prof. Roozeboom is now a consultant to high-tech industry, and the author or co-author of over 200 publications on chemistry and physics (h-index 42), five book chapters, 39 granted US patents, editor or co-editor of 52 conference proceedings on semiconductor processing, and Executive Editor of the open access Atomic Layer Deposition International Journal. He has served as Member-at-Large for the ECS Electronics and Photonics Division for many years.
