Prof. Harry Ruda is a Professor in the Department of Material Science and Engineering, Faculty of Applied Science & Engineering at the University of Toronto and Stanley Meek Chair in Advanced Nanotechnology & Director of Centre For Advanced Nanotechnology.

Harry Ruda was one of the founders of a Canadian National Centre of Excellence in Photonics. He serves on the National Science and Engineering Council of Canada and on other government panels including those of the DOE, EPA and NSF in the US, and the RAE and EPSRC in the UK. He serves on the international advisory board of the National University of Science and Technology in Moscow. He also has served on the editorial boards of: Journal of Applied Physics, Applied Physics Letters, Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Electronics, Nanotechnology Research Letters, and is currently Editor in Chief of IET Circuits Devices and Systems.

Professor Ruda has published over 270 publications in international refereed journals (with over 7,200 citations; h=41), has co-authored 4 books and has 14 patents. Professor Ruda’s research interests focus on the fabrication and modeling of quantum functional nanostructures with applications in the fields of nanoelectronics and nanophotonics. Some notable contributions include one of the first theories of carrier transport in selectively doped quantum heterostructures, theories for the non-linear optical response of asymmetric quantum heterostructures, one of the first reports on the growth of semiconductor nanowires.

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