Scientific User Facilities Division

Office of Basic Energy Sciences

Dr. Altaf (Tof) H. Carim
  

Scientific User Facilities Division
Office of Basic Energy Sciences
SC-22.3/Germantown Building

U.S. Department of Energy
1000 Independence Avenue, SW
Washington, D.C. 20585-1290
  
E-Mail: carim@science.doe.gov
Phone: (301) 903-4895
Fax: (301) 903-1690

Education  
S.B. in Materials Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1982
M.S. in Materials Science and Engineering, Stanford University, 1984
Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering, Stanford University, 1989

Experience  
Dr. Altaf (Tof) Carim is the DOE program manager for five Nanoscale Science Research Center user facilities, oversees operations of three Electron Beam MicroCharacterization user facilities, and coordinates DOE and interagency activities in nanotechnology.  Dr. Carim entered Federal service in the Office of Basic Energy Sciences at DOE in September 2001.  Prior to joining the Scientific User Facilities Division in October 2005, he was a program manager in the Materials Sciences and Engineering Division with primary responsibility for activities in the structure and composition of materials. 

Before joining DOE, Dr. Carim was on the faculty at The Pennsylvania State University (Penn State) in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering and as Chair of the Electronic and Photonic Materials Program.  He previously was a faculty member at the University of New Mexico, and had prior research posts and activities at the Philips Natuurkundig Laboratorium in The Netherlands, Philips Research Laboratories Sunnyvale, Bell Laboratories, and the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center.  He also was a visiting investigator at the Carnegie Institution of Washington during a year-long sabbatical.

Dr. Carim's primary scientific expertise is in microstructural and microchemical characterization of materials, with research contributions in a variety of areas including semiconductor interfaces, superconducting and ferroelectric oxide thin films and ceramics, crystal structure determination, crystalline defects, joining of ceramics and composites, development of anisotropic microstructures, electron holography, and morphology of nanoparticles and nanowires.  He has authored or coauthored over 85 research publications in these areas and has given over 100 conference, seminar, and other presentations.  He has been active in numerous professional societies, organized a number of technical meetings and symposia, and held editorial roles with several journals.  His awards and honors include recognition as an Office of Naval Research Young Investigator, receipt of an AIST Foreign Researcher Invitation to lecture in Japan, and participation in the project teams recognized with several of the Secretary of Energy's Project Management Excellence Awards.