Jeffrey J. Derby is currently a Distinguished McKnight University Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science at the University of Minnesota. He received a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Caltech, 1981, an M.S. in Chemical Engineering Practice from MIT, 1982, and a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from MIT, 1986. Prior to his appointment to the faculty at Minnesota, he spent two years with the Physics Department at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. His research program centers on the theoretical analysis of materials processing systems, especially crystal growth processes, and has resulted in over 150 refereed and invited publications and over 200 invited talks. His work has concentrated on the modeling of bulk crystal growth processes. Derby has received the NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award, the University of Minnesota McKnight-Land Grant and Distinguished McKnight University Professorships, the ACCG Young Author Award, and the Research Award of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. He is a member of the Executive Committees of the National and Western Sections of the American Association for Crystal Growth and the International Organisation for Crystal Growth. He has served as an Associate Editor of the Journal of Crystal Growth since 1997 and served as the Program Co-chair for the International Conference on Crystal Growth in 2007. Derby is currently serving as the President of the American Association of Crystal Growth for a three-year term that started in 2008.
Jeffrey J. Derby
