Leonard Brillson is a professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Physics, and Center for Materials Research Scholar at The Ohio State University in Columbus, OH, USA. Prior to that, he was director of Xerox Corporation's Materials Research Laboratory and had responsibility for Xerox's long-range physical science and technology programs at the company's research headquarters in Rochester, N.Y. He is a Fellow of IEEE, AAAS, AVS, and APS, and a former Governing Board member of the American Institute of Physics. He has authored over 300 scientific publications and received numerous scientific awards, including the AVS Gaede-Langmuir Award.