Kelly Simmons-Potter Elected to the HEART Society Steering Committee

During the upcoming 2018 Technical Interchange Meeting in Tucson, ECE professor Kelly Simmons-Potter will officially begin a three-year term as vice chair of the Hardened Electronics and Radiation Technology, or HEART, society steering committee.

Simmons-Potter currently serves as HEART society publication chair and executive editor of the Journal of Radiation Effects Research and Engineering – that term finishes at the end of 2018 – and has a joint appointment with the UA College of Optical Sciences.

The HEART society has honored Simmons-Potter before, awarding her Outstanding Paper of the Year in 2005 and 2012 for her work in radiation-hardened optical materials.