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Santa Barbara Technology Group Adds New Member To Board of Advisors
Santa Barbara, Calif., September 26, 2001-- Santa Barbara Technology Group (SBTG), a dynamic environment for financing, launching, and propelling high-technology start-up companies to tier-one venture financing, today announced the addition of a new member to its Board of Advisors. Martin Moskovits, Dean of Science and Professor of Physical Chemistry at UC Santa Barbara . Moskovits joins a distinguished group of individuals who meet regularly to advise the company on a wide range of issues, from technology trends to investment opportunities. Moskovits earned a BSc Physics and Chemistry and a PhD Chemical Physics from the University of Toronto. He served a Chair of the Department of Chemistry from 1993-1999 and is currently Fellow of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research and Director of its Nanoelectronics Program. He is a member of the Governing Council and the Business Board of the University of Toronto, serves as Chair of NSERC’s Analytical and Physical grants selection committee, member of the Canada Council Killam Prize and Fellowship selection committee, the John C. Polanyi Chair Inauguration committee which brought 11 Nobel Laureates to Canada. He has also served as a Board Member of the Ontario Laser and Lightwave Research Centre and the Centres of Excellence for Molecular and Interfacial Dynamics. He is a member of the Technical Advisory Board of the Canadian Science and Technology Growth Fund. He participated in several Science Policy Forums and edited “Science and Society: The John C. Polanyi Nobel Laureates Lectures”, M. Moskovits, ed.
Professor Moskovits is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, winner of the 1993 Gerhard Herzberg Award of the Spectroscopy Society of Canada, the 1993 Royal Society of Chemistry (London) award in Surface and Colloid Science, Killam Fellow (1989-91), Guggenheim Fellow, Department of Chemistry, UC, Berkeley, 1986-87, the 1995 400th Anniversary Johannes Marcus Marci Medal of the Czech Spectroscopy Society, 1999 winner of the CSC EWR Steacie Award, Fellow of Massey College, member of the editorial board of the Journal of Chemical Physics, member of the Advisory Board of NRC’s Steacie Institute for Molecular Sciences, member of the Board of Directors of Canadian Overseas International College in Hong Kong and member of the Research Corporation’s Award Program Advisory Committee.