Mayrant started his space career in 1961 when he joined Bell Telephone Labs in Greensboro, NC as an Electrical Design Engineer. In 1966 he moved to RTI International RTP, NC. Mayrant has had a sustained 46 year history of outstanding technical and leadership contributions in the Radiation Effects Community. His involvement spans from basic radiation damage mechanism research to DTRA Chair of technology development programs.

Mayrant has held a number of volunteer positions in support of the NSREC (1992 Chairman), NPSS and the HEART Conference (General Chair 1989).

Mayrant has been the author or co-author of 36 papers appearing in the IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science, Journal of Applied Physics, Government Microcircuit Application Conference Digest, IEEE Photovoltaic Conference Proceedings, IEEE Electron Device Letters, IEEE GaAs IC Symposium, Military Microwaves Conference Proceedings, Transactions of the American Nuclear Society, Journal of Radiation Effects and the IEEE Radiation Effects Data Workshop record.

His citation reads:
For contributions to the dissemination and advancement of radiation effects research associated with hardened systems for space applications.  

Reno Harboe-Sørensen started his space career in 1970 when he joined the components laboratory of the European Space Research Organisation (ESRO) where he performed Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM) on semiconductors, X-Ray analysis and supported other failure analysis work and evaluation activities. By 1975, when ESRO was integrated into the newly founded European Space Agency (ESA), Reno had started to turn his interest to radiation effects and employed the SEM as a micro radiation source and characterised device behavior under x-ray influence. In the following years, together with the late Len Adams, Reno developed a profound know-how on radiation effects and increased the awareness about radiation effects in ESA projects. Since that time he has planned, performed and reported hundreds of radiation test campaigns and initiated numerous studies on basic mechanisms and novel test approaches. In the process, Reno has become a widely recognized expert with a particular focus on Single Event Effects. His involvement in the development and improvement of European test facilities for radiation effects studies, such as the PIF, HIF and RADEF has been of crucial importance. Reno’s contribution to the space radiation effects community is impressively documented through his publications at NSREC and RADECS, through his forming influence on many of his young peers and through his constructive involvement in the RADECS Association.

His citation reads:
For contributions to the dissemination and advancement of radiation effects research associated with hardened systems for space applications.

Dennis has made many important contributions in the radiation effects, and has contributed in areas such as time and energy dependence of radiation effects, radiation dose enhancement, kinetics of radiation induced interface state generation, annealing of radiation induced trapped charge, and the mechanism of low dose rate effects in bipolar semiconductor devices.

He has been active in the IEEE Nuclear and Space Radiation Effects Conference (NSREC), and has served the NSREC as an author, reviewer, session chair, short course presenter, Short Course Chairman, Technical Program Chairman, General Chairman, member of the Radiation Effects Steering Group, and most recently as Adcom representative for the NPSS Radiation Effects Committee from 2002-2005.

His citation reads:
For contributions to the dissemination and advancement of radiation effects research and by his leadership in all aspects of the IEEE Nuclear and Space Radiation Effects Conference and the Radiation Effects Steering Group.

Professor Gasiot is a radiation physics specialist who currently works on issues related to reliability of electronic devices and systems in space and nuclear environments. He showed the first experimental evidence of the importance of fast thermoluminescent dosimetry using laser CO2 heating, in both 1D and 2D dosimetry applications. He performed pioneering work on optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) and played a key role in the development of high performance materials and systems currently used in 2D dosimetry. Jean Gasiot has developed in Montpellier a group dedicated to the study of radiation effects on materials and devices, with a special emphasis on basic mechanisms, device modeling, and radiation hardening.

Jean Gasiot has been an invited researcher at Washington State University and with the U.S. Navy in Silver Spring, MD. He is the founder and the first President of the RADECS (Radiation and its Effects on Components & Systems) Association, and a member of various scientific associations. RADECS is the first European radiation effects conference.

His citation reads:
For technical contributions and leadership that have enhanced the understanding of radiation effects in semiconductor devices, for strong contributions to the European radiation effects community, and for promoting radiation effects education.

Jim served in the U.S. Navy from 1953-1957 and received a BS in Physics from Indiana University in 1962. He worked at the Naval Ammunition Depot, Crane, Indiana (now NAVSEA, Crane Division) from 1962-1989 and has worked as a consultant since 1989. While at Crane, Jim managed the radiation effect group that was responsible for radiation effects testing of microelectronics for the Navy Polaris/Poseidon/Trident missile systems. Under Jim’s leadership the group grew to become one of the largest radiation effects test groups in the U.S. Jim also served as a Principal Area Reviewer for the Defense Nuclear Agency (now the Defense Threat Reduction Agency) Bipolar Technology Development Program. He was also instrumental in founding the Hardened Electronics and Radiation Technology (HEART) Conference.

Jim has been very active in the IEEE/NPSS radiation effects community over the years. In 1980 he was elected to a two year term on the RESG as a member-at-large. In 1982 he was the NSREC Conference Chairman, taking the conference to Caesar’s Palace Las Vegas, the first time that the NSREC was not held at a university site. In 1983 Jim was elected as Vice-Chairman of the RESG, a three year term. He then served a three year term as RESG Chairman and another three year term as Past Chairman.

It is most fitting that Jim received this award, as he was instrumental in establishing the Radiation Effects Award while he served as Chairman of the RESG.

His citation reads:
For contributions to the dissemination and advancement of radiation effects research by his leadership in all aspects of the IEEE Nuclear and Space Radiation Effects Conference and the Radiation Effects Steering Group.

Klaus was educated at UCLA with a BA in physics (1957) and MA in physics (1959). He worked 10 years for Hughes Aircraft, but somehow made it to the east coast to put in another 31.5 years for the US Army Research Laboratory in Adelphi, MD.

He first published in the Transactions on Nuclear Science in 1969, back when we were holding the NSREC conference at universities. Klaus was Short Course presenter at two NSRECs, session chair in 1987 and local arrangements chair in 1989 at Marco Island. He spent 3 years as Member-at-Large on the Radiation Effects Steering Group (RESG), 3 years as secretary for the RESG, and nine more years as Executive Vice-Chairman, Chairman, and Past-Chairman of this group. That’s 15 years on the steering group.

His citation reads:
For technical contributions to the dissemination and advancement of radiation effects research and by his leadership in all aspects of the IEEE Nuclear and Space Radiation Effects Conference and the Radiation Effects Steering Group.

Dr. Galloway is currently serving as Dean of the School of Engineering and Professor of Electrical Engineering at Vanderbilt University. As such, he has the administrative responsibility for academic programs in biomedical engineering, civil and environmental engineering, chemical engineering, electrical and computer engineering, engineering science, computer science, management of technology, and mechanical engineering. The Vanderbilt E-School, the oldest private engineering school in the South, has approximately 1275 students studying for bachelors degrees and 350 pursuing masters or Ph.D. degrees.

Prior to joining Vanderbilt in 1996, he held professional appointments at Indiana University, the Naval Surface Warfare Center, the National Institute of Standards and Technology, the University of Maryland and the University of Arizona.

Dr. Galloway’s personal research and teaching interests include solid-state devices and semiconductor technology. He has authored or co-authored more than one hundred and fifty technical publications and was elected a Fellow of the Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in 1986 for “Contributions to the study of radiation effects in microelectronics.” He served as General Chairman of the 1985 IEEE Nuclear and Space Radiation Effects Conference, Chairman of the IEEE NPSS Radiation Effects Committee (1991-94), and General Chairman of the 1997 IEDM (Int. Electron Devices Meeting). He is currently a member of the administrative committee of the IEEE Electron Devices Society and the IEEE Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society. He is a member of Sigma Xi, Eta Kappa Nu, Tau Beta Pi, AAAS (Fellow), ECS, ASEE, and APS.

Dr. Galloway received the B.A. degree from Vanderbilt University in 1962 and the Ph.D. from the University of South Carolina in 1966.

His citation reads:
For technical contributions and leadership that have enhanced the understanding of radiation effects in semiconductor devices, for meritorious service to the radiation effects community, and for promoting radiation effects education.

Born in Brighton, England, Dr. Holmes-Siedle served in the UK Royal Air Force, graduated in chemistry from Trinity College, Dublin in 1954, and completed a Ph.D and post-doctoral research at Cambridge University from 1954-1960 on the transfer of energy within biological and chemical systems. Following this, he worked on communication satellite designs with Hawker-Siddeley (now British Aerospace).

In 1962, Dr. Holmes-Siedle moved to the US and became the Manager of Radiation Effects at RCA Space Center (now Lockheed-Martin), where he directed basic research and spacecraft engineering support. During his time at RCA, he also served as a Visiting Scientist with the Princeton University Aerospace Engineering Department, where he investigated the physics of defects in solids and the radiation hardening of then-novel devices developed by RCA (solar cells and MOS devices).

He returned to Europe in 1972 as a Senior Fellow in the Physics Department of the University of Reading, England, initiating work on the effects of far-UV radiation in dielectric films on semiconductors. From 1975 to 1992, as a consultant for Fulmer Research Institute, he developed new business areas in industrial sensors and radiation effects testing with organizations including the European Space Agency, the UK Atomic Energy Authority and the UK Ministry of Defence. During this time, he also started a new company to develop and produce the RadFET dosimeter. He then moved to Brunel University as Honorary Professor where he formed the Centre for Radiation Damage Studies in the Physics Department. Work there included high-energy particle detection, silicon imaging devices and close collaboration with students.

Dr Holmes-Siedle has been associated with several unique space experiments to detect environmental effects on spacecraft such as the development of systems measuring radiation doses and single event effects in space. With co-author, Len Adams, he evolved the Handbook of Radiation Effects published by Oxford University Press from a number of sponsored contract study reports. Testing detectors for use in astronomy, space instrumentation, and high energy physics detector systems has become his major research topic at Brunel University, while REM formed partnerships with the Harvard Medical School, Cambridge, MA and the Institute for Cancer Research in Genova, Italy, to design probes for radiotherapy .

Dr. Holmes-Siedle is a Fellow of the Institute of Physics (IOP), a past member of the IOP Electronics Committee, a Senior Member of the IEEE and of the Radiation Effects Committee . He received NASA and IR-100 awards and a medal of the University of Montpellier for his work and has received patents on a gas detector and a micro-engineered detector for UV light. He has written 60 research papers, two books, and several industrial handbooks.

His citation reads:
For contributions to the field of radiation dosimetry and his encouragement of young researchers in the field of radiation effects.

Dr. Stassinopoulos received this honor for his pioneering work in the areas of test facility and methodology development, his leadership as a liaison between the US and European radiation effects communities and his notable contributions to the understanding and modeling of the radiation environment with emphasis on practical engineering applications.

Dr. Stassinopoulos (know universally as 'Stass' in the space radiation effects community) received master's degrees in mathematics and physics as well as a law doctorate. He has worked at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center since 1960 in positions of increasing responsibility and currently heads the Space Radiation Physics Office at that facility. He has made outstanding contributions in a broad range of areas, ranging from test facility development at the Brookhaven facility for heavy ion testing to his pioneering relationships with the European radiation effects community and the RADECS conference. He also led efforts in the development of user-friendly engineering codes for modeling the space environment, and authored the SOLPRO code for calculating solar proton fluences.

His citation reads:
For his pioneering work in the areas of test facility and methodology development, his leadership as a liaison between the US and European radiation effects communities and his notable contributions to the understanding and modeling of the radiation environment with emphasis on practical engineering applications.

Jim Raymond has attended every NSRE Conference for the past 34 years (he only missed the first conference) and has served as Session Chairman, Short Course Presenter, Short Course Chairman, Guest Editor, Awards Chairman, Treasurer and General Chairman. He received the 1977 NSREC Outstanding Paper Award. Jim has worked for Northrop, served as a consultant, and is currently with Mission Research Corporation. He is married to Gracie and resides in Solon Beach, California.

His citation reads:
For promoting the IEEE Nuclear and Space Radiation Effects Conference for 34 years through his example of conference leadership, short course leadership, and outstanding publications describing modeling of microcircuits in high dose-rate environments.