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March 29, 2004,
Vol. 74, No. 10S
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ADDITION:
MSE professor and alum Ramamoorthy Ramesh feels extremely lucky
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MSE professor
Ramesh is one of this year’s new faculty hires
This spring semester Berkeley Engineering welcomed home one of its
own when they hired MSE professor Ramamoorthy Ramesh.
After getting his Ph.D. in MSE from Berkeley in ’87, Ramesh worked
at Bellcore in New Jersey on non-volatile memory devices. He then taught
in the MSE and physics departments at the University of Maryland. Despite
a great job in Maryland, Ramesh says he always had his eye on a position
at Berkeley.
"Anyone would salivate to come to Berkeley," he laughs. "I
can't put my finger on it but there is something special about this
place and it's not just due to the fact that you can walk around and
bump into Nobel laureates."
Professor Ramesh is the only Berkeley professor to hold a joint position
in physics and MSE. He teaches one class in each subject.
The two disciplines help with his research on thin films of complex
materials, mainly oxides.
His MSE background lets him "grow" new materials, while his
physics training helps him understand why materials do what they do.
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