Steven M. Durbin received the B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana. Subsequently, he was with the Department of Electrical Engineering at Florida State University and Florida A&M University before joining the University of Canterbury, New Zealand, in 2000. In 2010, he moved to the University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, where he held a joint tenured appointment between the Departments of Electrical Engineering and Physics. Since 2013, he has been with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Western Michigan University, where he is Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and has served in a variety of administrative roles. His teaching interests include circuits, electronics, electromagnetics, solid-state electronics and nanotechnology. His research interests are primarily concerned with the development of novel electronic materials—in particular those based on oxide and nitride compounds—as well as studying disorder in both naturally occurring and synthetic systems as a route to physical understanding and engineering of properties. He is a founding principal investigator of the MacDiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology, a New Zealand National Centre of Research Excellence, and coauthor of over 100technical publications, including several patents and patents pending. He is a senior member of the IEEE, and a member of Eta Kappa Nu, Tau Beta Pi, the Materials Research Society, the AVS (formerly the American Vacuum Society), the Society of Amateur Radio Astronomers, the American Physical Society, and the Royal Society of New Zealand. In his spare time, he enjoys building acoustic and electric guitars, and solid-top ukuleles.
