Michael R. Squillante, Ph.D., P.I., Vice President of Research

     Dr. Michael Squillante received his Ph.D. in Chemistry from Tufts University in Medford, MA in 1980. Since 1980, he has been a full time employee of RMD, Inc. He became Director of Research in 1983 and Vice President of Research in 1992.

     Dr. Squillante oversees RMD's research and development activities, including research programs to develop instrumentation for cancer diagnosis, scientific research and industrial testing. He has been Principal Investigator and Program Manager on numerous programs funded by various government agencies, including NASA, NIH, NSF, DOE, EPA and DOD, for the development of materials, sensors and instruments. He has been involved with the SBIR program since its inception, and has successfully led projects through the research and development stage to successful commercialization.

    Dr. Squillante was an editor of "Semiconductors for Room Temperature Radiation Detection" published by Materials Research Society (1998). He is co-author on chapters about materials science and detector technology in books published by Marcel Dekker (1993), Academic Press (1995) and in the CRC Measurement and Sensors Handbook (1999) and the John Wiley Encyclopedia of Electrical and Electronic Engineering (1999). As a result of his work, he has been invited to speak at international conferences in the United States and Europe, and has served as session chairman at the IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium, the RSMW Conference on Robotics, and on conference program committees of the SPIE. He is a member of the IEEE Nuclear Plasma Society. Dr. Squillante is an Adjunct Professor of Physics at the University of Massachusetts in Lowell.

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