Biography

Dr. Steve Greenbaum is CUNY Distinguished Professor of Physics at Hunter College and the CUNY Graduate Center, and a Fellow of the American Physical Society. He is also a science advisor/consultant at Ionic Materials, Inc. in Woburn, MA. He served (2008-14) as Executive Officer of the Ph.D. Program in Physics at the CUNY Graduate Center. Dr. Greenbaum earned his Ph.D. in Physics from Brown University. He spent two years at the US Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, D.C. as an NRC Postdoctoral Fellow, and spent sabbatical years as a Fulbright Scholar at the Weizmann Institute of Science, and a NASA/NRC Senior Research Fellow at the Jet Propulsion Lab, Caltech, where he was a member of the team that designed the lithium ion batteries for the successful Mars Rover missions. He has also held Visiting Professor positions at Stony Brook University, Rutgers University, Tel Aviv University, the University of Paris-Sud (XI), the University of Padova, and the University of Rome, La Sapienza. Dr. Greenbaum's main research interest is magnetic resonance of disordered solids, mostly on materials for electrochemical energy storage and conversion (i.e. batteries and fuel cells). He has co-authored over 300 peer reviewed publications, and directly supervised the research of 21 postdoctoral associates, 29 Ph.D. students, and numerous BA research students. Dr. Greenbaum was the 2001 recipient of the Roosevelt Gold Medal for Science, bestowed by the United States Navy League, and the 2002 PAESMEM. He also received the 2003 Richard Nicholson Science Teaching Award. Dr. Greenbaum was one of eleven Jefferson Science Fellows who served as Senior Science advisors to the U.S. State Department in 2014-15. He was also recognized SACNAS by receiving their 2016 Distinguished Scientist Award.