Dr. Antoni Tomsia

Group leader


Mail: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
1 Cyclotron Road, MS 62-0203
Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
Tel: (+1)(510)486-4918
E-mail: aptomsia@lbl.gov

Professional Experience

  • 2001-present: Senior Scientist, Materials Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), University of California
  • 1999-present: Adjunct Professor, University of California, San Francisco, Department of Preventive and Restorative Dental Sciences
  • 1992-present: Principal Investigator, LBNL
  • 1988-2001: Staff Scientist and Manager of Analytical Labs, LBNL
  • 1984-1988: Associate Research Engineer, Department of Materials Science and Mineral Engineering, University of California, Berkeley
  • 1980-1984: Assistant Research Engineer, Department of Materials Science and Mineral Engineering, University of California, Berkeley
  • 1978-1980: Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Materials and Molecular Research Division, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley
  • 1975-1978: Adjunct and Lecturer, Institute of Materials Science, Krakow, Poland
  • 1973-1975: Research Assistant, Institute of Materials Science, Krakow, Poland

Academic Background

  • 1971: B.S. & M.S. in Ceramic Engineering and Chemistry, University of Mining and Metallurgy, Krakow, Poland
  • 1973: M.S. in Materials Science, Institute of Materials Science, Krakow, Poland
  • 1975: Ph.D. in Materials Science, Institute of Materials Science, Krakow, Poland


Publications

More than 200 articles in refereed journals, and 40 articles in conference proceedings.


Invited Lectures

More than 300 plenary, keynote and invited lectures during the last 15 years.


Book chapters

  1. A. P. Tomsia and J. A. Pask, "Glass-to-Metal Seals", in "Joining of Ceramics", Edited by M. G. Nicholas, Published on behalf of The Institute of Ceramics by Chapman and Hall, 1990, p. 7-29.
  2. A. P. Tomsia, J. A. Pask, and R. E. Loehman, "Glass/Metal and Glass-Ceramic/Metal Seals," in Engineered Materials Handbook, vol. 4, ASM International, 1991, pp. 493-501.
  3. J. A. Pask and A. P. Tomsia, "Wetting, Surface Energies, Adhesion, and Interface Reaction Thermodynamics", in Engineered Materials Handbook, vol. 4, ASM International, 1991, pp. 482-492.
  4. R. K. Brow, R. E. Loehman and A. P. Tomsia, "Reactive Metal Brazing of Aluminum Nitride," in Metal-Ceramic Joining, ed. P. Kumar and V. A. Greenhut, The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society, 1991, pp 229-236.
  5. A. P. Tomsia and R. E. Loehman, "Glass and Ceramic Joints", in Characterization of Ceramics, Ronald E. Loehman, ed. Butterworth-Heinemann, Boston (1993), pp. 211-228.
  6. E. Saiz, S. Lopez-Esteban, S. Fujino, T. Oku, K. Suganuma and A. P. Tomsia, “Characterization of metal/glass interfaces in bioactive glass coatings on Ti-6Al-4V alloys”, Nano and Microstructural Design of Advanced Materials, Eds. M. A. Meyers, R. O. Ritchie and M. Sarikaya, Elsevier, 2004.
  7. Saiz, E., R.M. Cannon, and A.P. Tomsia, High-temperature wetting and the work of adhesion in metal/oxide systems, Annual Review of Materials Research, 2008. 38: p. 197-226.

Books Edited

  1. Scripta Metallurgica & Materialia, Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Interfaces, Santiago de Compostela, Spain, September 21-24, 1993 (Guest Editor)
  2. Ceramic Joining, E. Reimanis, C. H. Henager Jr. & A. P. Tomsia, Ceramic Transactions, Vol. 77, Published by The American Ceramic Society, 1997.
  3. Ceramic Microstructures: Control at the Atomic Level, A. P. Tomsia & A. M. Glaeser, Ed., Plenum Publishing Corp. 1998.
  4. Acta Materialia, Proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Interfaces, Santiago de Compostela, Spain, September 16-19, 1996, Acta volume 46, No. 7. April 10, 1998 (Guest Editor)
  5. Interfacial Science in Ceramic Joining, A. P. Tomsia, T. Kosmac & A. Bellosi, Ed., NATO Advanced Research Workshop, Kluver Academic Publishers, 1998.
  6. Acta Materialia, Proceedings of the International Workshop on Interfaces, held in Seville, Spain, on September 20-23, 1999, Volume 48, No. 18-19, December 2000 (Guest Editor).
  7. Journal of the European Ceramic Society, Proceedings of the International Workshop on Interfaces: Ceramic and Metal Interfaces: Control at the Atomic Level, June 23–27, 2002, Oviedo, Spain (Guest Editor).
  8. Journal of the European Ceramic Society, Guest Editor, 23, Number 15, 2003.
  9. Characterization and Control of Interfaces for High Quality Advanced Materials, Ceramic Transactions, Volume 146, American Ceramic Society, November 2004.
  10. Journal of Materials Science, Interfaces by Design, Volume 41, Number 16, August, 2006. (Guest Editor)
  11. Characterization and Control of Interfaces for High Quality Advanced Materials II, Ceramic Transactions, Volume 198, American Ceramic Society, 2007.
  12. Annual Review of Materials Research, Guest Editor, Volume 38, 2008.

Patents

  1. E. Saiz, A. P. Tomsia, J. M. Gomez-Vega , S. J. Marshall, G. W. Marshall, “Functionally Graded Glass and Glass/ceramic Coating for Metallic Orthopedic Implants”, USA patent application number 20020076528.
  2. Jie Song, Eduardo Saiz, Carolyn R. Bertozzi, Antoni P. Tomsia, “Flexbone Hydrogel-Based Functional Hybrid Composite Materials,” Patent application pending # IB-2104P.
  3. Gao Liu, Dacheng Zhao, Eduardo Saiz, Antoni P. Tomsia, Biodegradable Synthetic Bone Composites, Patent application pending IB-2398P
  4. Eduardo Saiz, Julie M. Russias, Sylvain Deville, Antoni P. Tomsia, “Fabrication of Three-Dimensional Organic/Inorganic Scaffolds by Robocasting” Patent application pending #IB-1891P
  5. G. W. Marshall, S. J. Marshall, D. Zeiger, E. Saiz, A. P. Tomsia, “Dental Bonding Compositions and Methods Useful in Inhibition of Microleakage in Resing Bonded Dentin” U.S. Patent Application Serial No. 12/025,668

Conferences Organized

Member of more than 100 international advisory committees for various conferences.

  1. Program Co-chair for the Pacific Coast Regional Meeting of the American Ceramic Society, San Francisco, October 1988
  2. Program Chair, 1st International Workshop on Ceramic-Metal Interfaces in Electronic Packaging held on October 1-2, 1990 in Santiago, Spain.
  3. Program Chair, Workshop on "Interfaces in Ceramic-Metal Systems," held on June 12, 1992 at LBL.
  4. Program Chair, 2nd International Workshop on Interfaces held on September 27-29, 1993 in Santiago, Galicia, Spain, Proceedings published in Scripta Metallurgica et Materialia, 31 [8] 1043-48 (1994).
  5. Symposium Chair, Interfaces Symposium, 94th Annual Meeting of the American Ceramic Society, April 17-20, 1994, Cincinnati, Ohio.
  6. Member of the Organizing Committee: 4th Japan International SAMPE Symposium & Exhibition, September 25-28, 1995, Tokyo, Japan.
  7. Member of the Organizing Committee (Coatings and Joinings): The Fourth Conference of the European Ceramic Society, Riccione, Italy, October 2-6, 1995
  8. International Advisory Board, 4th Japan International SAMPE Symposium & Exhibition, September 25-28, 1995, Tokyo, Japan.
  9. Program Co-chair, Ceramic Joining Symposium, 96th Annual Meeting of the American Ceramic Society, April 13-14, 1996, Indianapolis, Indiana.
  10. Conference Chairman, International Conference on “Ceramic Microstructures’96: Control at the Atomic Level” June 24 to 27, 1996, Berkeley.
  11. Member of the Organizing Committee: 3rd International Symposium on Interfaces of Ceramic Materials, July 10-13, 1996, Cairns, Australia.
  12. Program Chair, 3rd International Workshop on Interfaces, Acta Materialia Conference held in Santiago, Spain, September 16 to 20, 1996.
  13. Program Chair, NATO Advanced Research Workshop, Interfacial Science in Ceramic Joining, Bled, Slovenia, November 12-15, 1997.
  14. Program Chair, 4th International Workshop on Ceramic and Bimaterial Interfaces: Designing for Properties, Acta Materialia Conference held in Seville, Spain, September 20 to 23, 1999.
  15. Program committee, High Temperature Capillarity, International Conference, Kurashiki, Japan, November 19-22, 2000.
  16. International Advisory Board, 10th International Conference on Intergranular & Interphase Boundaries July 22-26, 2001, Haifa, Israel.
  17. Program Chair, 5th International Workshop on Ceramic and Metal Interfaces: Control at the Atomic Level, Journal of European Ceramic Society Conference held in Oviedo, Spain, June 23-27, 2002.
  18. Program Chair, 6th International Workshop on Interfaces: Interfaces by Design, Journal of Materials Science Conference held in Santiago de Compostela, Spain, June 26-30, 2005.
  19. Program Chair, 7th International Workshop on Interfaces: New Materials via Interfacial Control, International Journal of Materials Research Conference held in Santiago de Compostela, Spain, June 22-26, 2008.

Professional Associations

  • American Ceramic Society
  • American Society for Metals
  • Materials Research Society
  • International Association for Dental Research
  • American Association for Dental Research
  • Society for Biomaterials

Federal and Public Advisory Committees

  • NIH Study Section, 1999, Biomimetics and Tissue Engineering.
  • NIH/NIDCR Study Section, 1999-2004, member of Oral Biology and Medicine 1 (OBM-1)
  • NIH Study Section, 1999-present, member of several Special Emphasis Panels at NIH
  • NIH/NIDCR Study Section – Oral, Dental and Craniofacial Committee (OCDS) – 2006-present
  • NIH/NIDCR Study Section – Special Grants Review Committee (DSR) – 2006-present.
  • NIH/NIDCR Study Section – Stimulus Challenge Grants, 2009
  • NIH/NIDCR Study Section – Stimulus Supplemental Grants, 2009
  • NIH Study Section – Recovery Act Limited Competition: Biomedical Research, Development, and Growth to Spur the Acceleration of New Technologies (BRDG-SPAN) Pilot Program (RC3) – 2009
  • NIH Study Section – Recovery Act Limited Competition: Small Business Catalyst Awards for Accelerating Innovative Research (R43) – 2009
  • NIH Study Section – MOSS Special Emphasis Panel – 2009 –present
  • Elected to College of NIH Center for Scientific Review (2010)
  • MRS Award Committee

Honors

  • Ceramic-Metal Joining, Course Director, The American Ceramic Society (1987-1998)
  • Fulrath Memorial Award (1993)
  • Gordon Conference on Solid State Studies in Ceramics, (1993)
  • Fellow, The American Ceramic Society, 1997
  • VRSP Award, Fujitsu Corporation, Atsugi, Japan, 1998
  • Humboldt Research Award for senior US scientist, 2001
  • International Union of Materials Research Society’s (IUMRS) Award for International Collaboration (2001)
  • Discover Magazine Award for Technological Innovation (2001)
  • Editorial Board Member, International Journal for Materials Research
  • Gordon Conference on Solid State Studies in Ceramics, Distinguished Lecture (2004)
  • Distinguished Advisory Board Member: Journal of Materials Science
  • Elected as one of 2006 Scientific American’s top 50 Technology Leaders
  • Elected to College of CSR Reviewers at NIH