Dr. Al Zeller, long-time CSA member and member of CSA’s Board of Technical Directors, has been elected to the Board of the Applied Superconductivity Conference. Zeller is a Senior Physicist and Head of the Research Facilities Department at the National Superconducting Cyclotron Lab at Michigan State University. He is responsible for the lab’s cryogenic system and the construction and maintenance of all of the magnets and major experimental equipment. His current areas of research are superconducting magnets and radiation resistant magnets.
Zeller received his PhD from Florida State University in 1974 in Nuclear Chemistry and had research positions in experimental nuclear physics at the Australian National University and Texas A&M before joining the lab in 1979. He has authored or co-authored over 200 papers and reports.
He served on the Cryogenic Engineering Conference (CEC) Board from 1995 until 2003. He was CEC chair in 1999 for the joint CEC/ICMC in Montreal and served as President until 2003. He was elected to the Applied Superconductivity Conference (ASC) in 1992, serving until 1998, and was appointed to the Board in 2000 and served as conference chair in 2006. He is the Chairman of the 2011 CEC.
Zeller is a member of the American Physical Society and a Senior Member of the IEEE, as well as a member of the IEEE Council on Superconductivity.
