Administrative Committee (AdCom)
The Administrative Committee of the NPSS facilitates all of the activities of the society. The first activity of record in this field was the formation of a Nuclear Studies Committee in the IRE in 1947 to determine the proper role of the IRE in this new technical field. Subsequently, in 1949 a petition was filed for the formation of a Professional Group on Nuclear Science, and it was approved on April 5, 1949, with L. R. Hafstad as Chairman. On April 29, an organizational meeting was held. The membership at that time consisting of 54, increasing to 970 by the end of the year.
Today NPSS has between 2500 and 3000 members. AdCom consists of five officers, eight editors, twelve functional committee chairs, eight technical committee chairs, fifteen elected members and fourteen liaisons. It meets three times each year to conduct business. The first meeting in the year is an extended retreat, where strategic plans are discussed.
AdCom March 2023:
NPSS Officers
President: Vesna Sossi
Vice President: Sara Pozzi
Past President: Steven Meikle
Secretary: Albe Larsen
Treasurer: Ralf Engels
Membership
Adcom Members, Committee Chairpersons, Representatives, ...
Administrative Committee (Voting Member; Class of 2023)
Arati Dasgupta (PSAC)
Ken Galloway (RE)
Joshua Leckbee (PPST)
Masaharu Nomachi (CANPS)
David Donovan (FTC)
Administrative Committee (Voting Members; Class of 2024)
Robert Miyaoka (NMISC)
Christine Coverdale (PSAC)
Martin Grossman (TNC)
Administrative Committee (Voting Members; Class of 2025)
Martin Purschke (CANPS)
Lorenzo Fabris (RI)
William M. White (PPST)
Tor Raubenheimer (PAST)
Administrative Committee (Voting Members; Class of 2026)
Jae Sung Lee (NMISC)
Philippe Paillet (REC)
Giulia Hull (RITC)
John Lewellen (PAST)
Technical Committee Chairpersons (Voting Members)
COMPUTER APPLICATIONS IN NUCLEAR & PLASMA SCIENCES: David Abbott
FUSION TECHNOLOGY: Martin Nieto-Perez
NUCLEAR AND MEDICAL IMAGING SCIENCES: Andrew Goertzen
PARTICLE ACCELERATOR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY: Wolfram Fischer
PLASMA SCIENCE AND APPLICATIONS: Brad Hoff
PULSED POWER SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY: Heather O’Brien
RADIATION EFFECTS: Robert Reed
RADIATION INSTRUMENTATION: Srilalan Krishnamoorthy
Functional Committee Chairpersons (Non-Voting Members)
AWARDS: Ron Schrimpf
CHAPTERS: Steven Gold
COMMUNICATIONS: Peter Clout
CONFERENCES: Susanne Kuehn (Chiara Guazzoni, Vice Chair)
DISTINGUISHED LECTURES: Dan Fleetwood
EDUCOM: Stefan Ritt
FELLOWS: Edl Schamiloglu
FINANCE: Harold Flescher, John Verboncouer, Vice-Chairs
MEMBERSHIP: Robert Miyaoka
MEMBERSHIP VICE CHAIR: Jean-Luc Leray
NOMINATIONS: Steve Meikle
PUBLICATIONS: Paul Dressendorfer
TRANSNATIONAL: Martin Grossmann
YOUNG PROFESSIONALS: Srilalan Krishnamoorthy
Liaison Representatives (Non-Voting Representatives)
EAB EDUCATION COMMITTEE: Dan Fleetwood
FUSION ENERGY SCIENCES ADVISORY COMMITTEE (FESAC): John Verboncouer
ICALEPCS: Peter Clout
ISV GOVERNING BOARD: Adam Alessio
IEEE FELLOWS EVALUATION COMMITTEE: Edl Schamiloglu
IEEE NANOTECHNOLOGY COUNCIL : John Verboncouer
IEEE SOCIAL IMPLICATIONS OF TECHNOLOGY: Raymond Larsen
IEEE-USA R&D POLICY COMMITTEE: Sandra Biedron
IEEE-USA AI POLICY COMMITTEE: Brendan Godfrey
NCRP: Richard Kouzes
RADECS: Ken Galloway (Harold Flescher, secondary)
SOCIAL MEDIA: Martin Purschke
TAB DIVERSITY, EQUITY, INCLUSION: Jane Lehr, Mitra Safavi-Naeini, co-liaison
TRANSACTIONS ON MEDICAL IMAGING: Margaret Daube-Witherspoon
TRANSACTIONS ON MEDICAL IMAGING: Sybille Ziegler
WOMEN IN ENGINEERING: Cinzia Da Via, Audrey Corbeil-Therrien, co-liaison
Editors (Non-Voting Representatives)
NPSS NEWSLETTER EDITOR: Albe Larsen
NPSS WEBMASTER: Richard Kouzes
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON MEDICAL IMAGING EDITOR: Leslie Ying
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON SENSORS EDITOR: H. Troy Nagle
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON NUCLEAR SCIENCE EDITOR: Zane Bell
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON PLASMA SCIENCE EDITOR: Steve Gitomer
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON RADIATION AND PLASMA MEDICAL SCIENCE EDITOR: Demitris Visvikis
AdCom Contact Information
AdCom Members
David Abbott
Jefferson Lab
Newport News, VA
Chair: Computer Applications in Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Committee
Email: abbottd@jlab.org
Adam Alessio
Michigan State University
Liaison: ISV Governing Board
Email: aalessio@msu.edu
Rebecca Anthony
Michigan Sate University
Liaison: Nanotechnology
Email: ranthony@msu.edu
Zane Bell
Oak Ridge National Laboratory (retired)
Oak Ridge, TN
Editor-in-Chief TNS
Email: Zane Bell
Sandra Biedron
University of New Mexico
Liaison: IEEE-USA R&D Policy Committee
Email: biedron@unm.edu
Peter N. Clout
Santa Fe, NM 87501-2251
Chair: Communications Functional Committee
Liaison: ICALEPCS, MGA Products and Services
Email: p.clout@ieee.org
Audrey Corbeil-Therrien
Universite d’Sherbrooke
Liaison: Women in Engineering co-liaison
Email: Audrey.Corbeil.Therrien@usherbrooke.ca
Christine Coverdale
Sandia National Laboratories
AdCom 2024 (PSAC)
Email: cacover@sandia.gov
Arati Dasgupta
Naval Research Laboratory
AdCom 2023 (PSAC)
Email: arati.dasgupta@nrl.navy.mil
Margaret Daube-Witherspoon
University of Pennsylvania
Liaison: TMI
email: daubewit@pennmedicine.upenn.edu
Cinzia Da Via
The University of Manchester
Manchester, UK
Liaison: WIE
Email: Cinzia.DaVia@manchester.ac.uk
Alberto Del Guerra
University of Pisa
Chair: Fellow Candidate Search Functional Committee
Email: alberto.delguerra@unipi.it
David Donovan
University of Tennessee
Knoxville, TN
AdCom 2023 (FTC)
Email: ddonovan@utk.edu
Paul Dressendorfer
Sandia National Laboratories (retired)
Albuquerque, NM
Chair: Publications Functional Committee
Email: p.dressendorfer@ieee.org
Ralf Engels
Forschungszentrum Juelich GmbH
52425 Juelich, Germany
NPSS Treasurer
Email: r.engels@fz-juelich.de
Lorenzo Fabris
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Oak Ridge, TN
AdCom 2025 (RITC)
Email: fabrisl@ornl.gov
Wolfram Fischer
Brookhaven National Laboratory
Chair: PAST
Email: wfischer@bnl.gov
Daniel M. Fleetwood
Vanderbilt University
Nashville, TN
Chair: Distinguished Lecturer Program
Liaison: IEEE Distinguished Lecturer Program; EAB
Email: Dan.Fleetwood@vanderbilt.edu
Harold L. Flescher
Palm Beach Gardens, FL
IEEE Finance Committee
Email: h.flescher@ieee.org
Roger Fulton
Sydney, Australia
Chair: Nuclear Medical and Imaging Science Technical Committee
Email: roger.fulton@sydney.edu.au
Ken Galloway
Vanderbilt University School of Engineering
Nashville, TN
AdCom 2023 (REC)
Email: Kenneth.f.galloway@vanderbilt.edu
Andrew L. Goertzen
University of Manitoba
Winnipeg, Canada
Chair: NMISC
Email: Andrew.Goertzen@umanitoba.ca
Steven J. Gitomer
US Civilian Research and Development Foundation
Los Alamos National Laboratory (retired)
Santa Fe, NM
Editor-in-Chief TPS
Email: sgitomer@aol.com
Web: ieee-npss.org/publications/transactions-on-plasma-science/
Brendan Godfrey
Missouri City, TX
Liaison: IEEE-USA AI Policy Committee
Email: brendan.godfrey@ieee.org
Steven H. Gold
Parker, CO
Chair: Chapters and Local Activities
Email: steeve@ieee.org
Martin Grossmann
Paul Scherrer Institute
Villigen PSI, Schweiz
Chair: Transnational Committee, CANPS
Email: martin.grossmann@psi.ch
Chiara Guazzoni
Dipartmento di Elettronica, Informazione e Bioingegneria
Politecnico di Milano and INFN
Milan, Italy
Past-Chair: Radiation Instrumentation
Vice Chair: Conferences
Email: chiara.guazzoni@mi.infn.it
Brad W Hoff
U.S. Air Force
Chair: PSAC
Email: brad.hoff@ieee.org
Giulia Hull
Université Paris-Saclay
AdCom 2026 (RISC)
Email: giulia.hull@ijclab.in2p3.fr
Richard T. Kouzes
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Seattle, WA
Web Master
Nuclear Power Initiative
Liaison: NCRP
Email: rkouzes@ieee.org
Srilalan Krishnamoorthy
University of Pennsylvania
Chair: RISC
Email: Srilalan@pennmedicine.upenn.edu
Evdokiya (Eva) Kostadinova
Auburn University
Liaison: CPS
Email: egk0033@auburn.edu
Susanne Kuehn
CERN
Geneva, Switzerland
Conferences co-Chair
Email: Susanne.Kuehn@cern.ch
Alberta M. Dawson Larsen
Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
Menlo Park, CA
NPSS Secretary
Newsletter Editor
Email: a.m.larsen@ieee.org
Raymond S. Larsen
SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
Menlo Park, CA
Liaison: Social Implications of Technology
Liaison: IEEE Smart Village, PES, IEEE HAHC SIGHT Committees
Email: larsen@slac.stanford.edu
Joshua Leckbee
Sandia National Laboratory
Adcom 2023 (PPST)
email: jjleckb@sandia.gov
Jae Sung Lee
Seoul National University College of Medicine
AdCom 2026 (NMISC)
Email: jaes@snu.ac.kr
Jane M. Lehr
University of New Mexico
Albuquerque, NM
Liaison: Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Email: jmlehr@unm.edu
Jean-Luc Leray
Consultant, CEA and ITER
Antony, France
Vice Chair Europe: Membership Functional Committee
Email: jlorange33@orange.fr
John Lewellen
SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
AdCom 2026 (PAST)
Email: jwlewellen@lanl.gov
Steve Meikle
The University of Sydney
Sydney, Australia
NPSS Past President (NMISC)
Chair: Nominations
Email: steven.meikle@sydney.edu.au
Robert Miyaoka
University of Washington
Seattle, WA
Adcom 2024 (NMISC)
Chair: Membership Committee
Email: rmiyaoka@uw.edu
Martin Nieto-Perez
Chair: Fusion Technology Technical Committee
Penn State University
University Park, PA
Email: mnieto@psu.edu
Masaharu Nomachi
Osaka University
Osaka Japan
AdCom 2023 (CANPS)
Email: nomachi@rcnp.osaka-u.ac.jp
Heather K. O’Brien
U.S. Army Research Laboratory
Adelphi, MD
Chair: PPST
Email: heather.k.obrien.civ@mail.mil
Philippe Paillet
CEA
Arpajon, France
AdCom 2026 (RE)
Email:philippe.paillet@cea.fr
Sara Pozzi
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI
NPSS Vice President
Email: pozzisa@umich.edu
Martin L. Purschke
Brookhaven National Laboratory
Upton, NY
Adcom 2025 (CANPS)
Liaison: Social Media
Email: purschke@bnl.gov
Tor Raubenheimer
SLAC
Menlo Park, CA
AdCom 2025 (PAST)
tor@slac.stanford.edu
Robert Reed
Vanderbilt University
Chair: NSREC
Email: robert.reed@vanderbilt.edu
Stefan Ritt
Paul Scherrer Institute
Switzerland
Chair: Education Committee
Email: stefan.ritt@psi.ch
Web: http://midas.psi.ch/~stefan
Mitra Safavi-Naeini
Ansto
Sydney, Australia
Liaison: Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Email: mitras@ansto.gov.au
Edl Schamiloglu
University of New Mexico
Albuquerque, NM
Chair: Fellows Evaluation Committee
Email: edls@unm.edu
Web: http://www.ece.unm.edu/faculty/edl
Ron Schrimpf
Vanderbilt University
Nashville, TN
Chair: Awards Committee
Email: ron.schrimpf@vanderbilt.edu
Web: http://www.vuse.vanderbilt.edu/~schrimpf/
Vesna Sossi
University of British Columbia
Vancouver, B.C., Canada
NPSS President (NMISC)
Email: vesna@physics.ubc.ca
John Verboncoeur
Michigan State University
East Lansing, MI
Chair: Vice-Chair Finance
Liaison: Fusion Energy Sciences Advisory Committee (FESAC)
Liaison: IEEE NanoTechnology Council
Email: johnv@msu.edu
Dimitris Visvikis
University of Brest
Brest, France 29200
Editor-in-Chief TRPMS
Email: Dimitris@univ-brest.fr
William M. White
Verus Research
Albuquerque, NM
AdCom 2025 (PPST)
Email: wmwhite@ieee.org
Sybille Ziegler
Technical University of Munich
Liaison: TMI Liaison
Email: sibylle.ziegler@tum.de
NPSS Committees
AdCom Meetings and Minutes
Meetings for 2023
All Meeting Minutes & Motions
Click on the meeting below for the list of files.
March 2-4, 2023, San Diego
June 23-24, Virtual
November 10-11, 2023, Vancouver, Canada (after NSS-MIC)
March 4-5, 2022, Virtual
June 28-30, 2022, Santa Fe, NM
November 11-12, 2022, Milan, Italy(after NSS-MIC)
March 4-6, 2021, Vancouver, CA (virtual)
June 27-28, 2021, Toronto, CA (after TAB, virtual)
October 22-23, 2021, Yokohama, Japan (after NSS-MIC, virtual)
March 5-7, 2020, Santa Fe, NM
July 10-11, 2020, New Brunswick, NJ (virtual)
November 6-7, 2020, Boston, MA (after NSS/MIC) (virtual)
March 8-9, 2019, Nashville, TN
June 28-29, 2019, Orlando, FL
November 1-2, 2019, Manchester, England (after NSS/MIC)
March 9-10, 2018, La Fonda, Santa Fe, NM
July 21, 2018, Waikoloa Village, HI
November 10, 2018, Sydney, Australia
March 3-4, 2017, DoubleTree, St. Augustine, FL
July 22, 2017, New Orleans, LA
October 28, 2017, Atlanta, GA
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Initiative Archive
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Additional Resources
Acronyms and Abbreviations
ABET: Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology
AdCom: Administrative Committee
APP: All Periodicals Package
APS-DPB: Americal Physical Society – Division of Physics of Beams
BoD: Board of Directors
BoG: Board of Governors
CANPS: Computer Applications in Nuclear and Plasma Sciences
CB: Concentration Banking
CCIP: Committee on Communications and Information Policy
CEAA: Committee on Engineering Accreditation Activities
COMAR: Committee on Man and Radiation
ComCom: Communications Committee of NPSS
CRADA (CRDA): Cooperative Research and Development Agreement
CS: Co-Sponsored conference
CTAA: Committee on Technology Accreditation Activities
DL: Distinguished Lecturers
DME: Design and Manufacturing Engineering
EAB: Educational Activities Board
EAC: Engineering Accreditation Commission
EHS: Environment, Health and Safety Committee
ESONE: European Studies On Norms for Electronics
ExCom: Executive Committee
FC: Functional Committee
FCC: Functional Committee Chair
FESAC: Fusion Energy Science Advisory Committee
FinCom: Finance Committee of NPSS
FS: Financially Sponsored conference
FT: Fusion Technology
– DIII-D: Doublet III – 4th Iteration
– ITER: International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor
– JET: Joint European Torus
– TFTR: Tritium Fusion Test Reactor
ICALEPCS: International Conference on Acclerators and Large Physics Control Systems
ICOPS: International Conference on Plasma Sciences
IEC: International Electro-Technical Committee
IEEE: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
IEL: Electronic Library
ITS: Intelligent Transportation Systems Committee
JOLLY: Journal on-line launch year
Laboratories and Organizations:
– ANL: Argonne National Laboratory
– BNL: Brookhaven National Laboratory
– CERN: Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire (European Laboratory for Particle Physics)
– DOD: Department of Defense
– DOE: Department of Energy
– EPA: Environmental Protection Agency
– FAA: Federal Aviation Administration
– FNAL: Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
– IEEE: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
– LANL: Los Alamos National Laboratory
– LBNL: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
– LLNL: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
– NAS: National Academy of Science
– NASA: National Aeronautics and Space Administration
– NRL: Naval Research Laboratory
– NSF: National Science Foundation
– ORNL: Oak Ridge National Laboratory
– PNNL: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
– PPPL: Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
– S&T: Science and Technology
– SLAC: Stanford Linear Accerlerator Center
MIC: Medical Imaging Conference
MoU: Memorandum of Understanding
N&A: Nominations and Appointments
NCRPM: National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurements
NEMA: National Electrical Manufacturers Association
NID: Nuclear Instruments and Detectors
NIDCOM: Nuclear Instruments and Detector Committee
NIM: Nuclear Instrumentation Methods (original source of acronym)
NMIS: Nuclear Medical Imaging Sciences
– CT: Computed Tomography
– MRI: Magnetic Resonance Imaging
– MRS: Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy
– NMISC: Nuclear Medical and Imaging Science Council
– NMISTC Nuclear Medical Imaging Sciences Technical Committee
– PET: Positron Emission Tomography
– SPECT: Single Photon Emission Computed Tomography
NPEC: Nuclear Power Engineering
NPS: Nuclear and Plasma Sciences
NPSS: Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society
NSREC: Nuclear & Space Radiation Effects Conference
NSS: Nuclear Science Symposium
NTDC: New Technology Direction Liaison
OI: Organizational Improvement
OpCom: Operating Committee
OU: Operational Unit
PAC: Particle Accelerator Conference
PACE: Professional Activities Council for Engineers
PAST: Particle Accelerator Science and Technology
POP: Pre-Order Plan (selected conference proceedings)
POP+: Pre-Order Plan (additional proceedings)
PP: Pulsed Power
PPC: Pulsed Power Conference
PPST (PPS&T): Pulsed Power Science and Technology
PPSTC: Pulsed Power Science and Technology Committee
PSAC: Plasma Science and Applications Committee
PUB: Publications Board
R&D: Research and Development
RAB: Regional Activities Board
REC: Radiation Effects Committee
– APS: Aerospace Policy Committee
– CHERBS Conference on High-Energy Background Radiation in Space
– EMP: Electromagnetic Pulse
– RADECS European Symposium on Radiation and Its Effects on Components and Systems
– RESG: Radiation Effects Steering Group
– RISC: Radiation Instrumentation Steering Committee
– SEV: Single Event Upset
– SGEMP: System Generated EMP
RIC: Radiation Instrumentation and Control
RTCA: Real-Time Computer Applications in Nuclear, Particle & Plasma
S/C: Society/Council
SAMIEEE: Society Access to Membership Information in the IEEE
SFE: Symposium on Fusion Engineering
SPARC: Strategic Planning and Review Committee
SPC: Strategic Planning Committee
STAIF: Space Technology and Applications International Forum
TAB: Technical Activities Board
TAC: Technology Accreditation Commission
TC: Technical Committee
TCC: Technical Committee Chair
TCS: Technically Co-Sponsored conference
TMI: Transactions on Medical Imaging
– EDICS: Editors Information Classification Scheme
– EMBS: Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society
– SPS: Signal Processing Society
– UFFC: Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control Society
TNS: Transactions on Nuclear Science
TPC: Technology Policy Council
TPS: Transactions on Plasma Science
USAB: United States Activities Board
NPSS Constitution and Bylaws & Policies
Fields of Interest
The Fields of Interest of the Society are the nuclear and plasma sciences and related emerging technologies.
Areas of technical activity include: computer applications in nuclear and plasma sciences; fusion technology; nuclear and medical imaging; radiation instrumentation; radiation effects; particle accelerator science and technology; plasma science and applications; pulsed power science and technology; and nuclear power instrumentation and control systems.
Strategic Plan
Initiative Submission Form
Each year NPSS funds strategic initiatives. Initiatives can be for one, two or three years (no longer however), and a completed Review Form must be submitted for approval at the beginning and for each successive year. Initiatives start January 1 and are funded for that year. Our Finance Committee reviews and ranks all initiatives, and our Administrative Committee (AdCom) approves funding for each.
IEEE NPSS Policies and Operations Manual
Powerpoint Templates
PowerPoint Templates
Calendar of NPSS Events
Send new events for the calendar to rkouzes@ieee.org