Staff

   Karl Schoenbach, Ph.D.
   Director of Frank Reidy Research Center for Bioelectrics
   (757) 683-2421
   schoenbach@ece.odu.edu

KARL H. SCHOENBACH joined Old Dominion University's department of    Electrical and Computer Engineering in 1985, where he now holds the Batten Endowed Chair for Bioelectrics Engineering, and serves as director of the Frank Reidy Research Center for Bioelectrics. He received the Diploma degree in physics and the Dr.rer.nat. degree in physics in 1966 and 1970, respectively, from the Technische Hochschule Darmstadt (THD), Germany. He was active in research on photoconductive switches until 1993, and now concentrates his research efforts on high-pressure glow discharges, glow (streamer) discharges in liquids, and on environmental and medical applications of pulse power technology.

Prior to joining ODU, Schoenbach held faculty positions at Texas Tech University and at the Technische Hochschule, Darmstadt, Germany

Schoenbach is author of over 330 research papers, 14 book chapters, 15 US patents and co-editor of 3 text and reference books. He has chaired a number of workshops and conferences, among them the 1991 IEEE International Conference on Plasma Science, and the First International Symposium on "Nonthermal Medial/Biological Treatments Using Electromagnetic Fields and Ionized Gases" (ElectroMed99) in 1999. He was elected Fellow of IEEE in 1994 for "contributions to the research and development of very-high-power electronic devices", and received the 2000 High Voltage Award sponsored by the Dielectric and Electrical Insulation Society of the IEEE. He has been an associate editor of the IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science from 1989 to 2004, guest editor of the IEEE Transactions on Electron-Devices (1990), the IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science (1999), the IEEE Transactions on Dielectrics and Electrical Insulation (2003), and co-editor of books on "Low Temperature Plasma Physics" (2001, 2006 rev Vols. 1 & 2), and on "Atmospheric Pressure Air Plasmas" (2004).