Paul Berger

Paul R. Berger (S’84 M’91 SM’97 F’11) is a Professor in Electrical & Computer Engineering at Ohio State University and Physics (by Courtesy). He is also a Distinguished Visiting Professor at Tampere University in Finland. He received the B.S.E. in engineering physics, and the M.S.E. and Ph.D. (1990) in electrical engineering, respectively, all from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

Some notable recognitions for Berger were an NSF CAREER Award (1996); a DARPA ULTRA Sustained Excellence Award (1998); a Faculty Diversity Excellence Award (2009); Outstanding Engineering Educator for State of Ohio (2014); and Fulbright-Nokia Distinguished Chair in Information and Communications Technologies (2020-2022).

Berger hosted as General Chair the 2021 International Flexible Electronics Technology Conference (IFETC) meeting and is the Founding Editor-in-Chief and Editor-in-Chief (’23-’27) for the new IEEE Journal on Flexible Electronics (J-FLEX). Berger was elected for 2-terms to the IEEE Electron Device Society’s Board of Governors (2019-2024).

Locally, Berger is Chair of the Columbus IEEE EDS/Photonics Chapter; Faculty Advisor to OSU’s first-in-the-world IEEE Graduate Student Chapter, and OSU’s IEEE Undergraduate Student Chapter for 18+ years. Berger was elected IEEE Columbus Vice Chair (’21-’26), which won the 2022 IEEE MGA Outstanding Medium Section Award.

He has authored >250 referred publications & presentations with >115 plenary, keynote, panelist, invited talks. He has 5 book sections, 25 issued patents, and a Google Scholar h-index of 41. Altogether, his USA research funding received $38.1M and his European funding received €15.7M with an aggregate > $54.9M USD.

Currently, Dr. Berger is actively working on quantum tunneling devices, printable semiconductor devices & circuits for IoT, bioelectronics, novel devices, novel semiconductors and applied physics.