Ricardo Ruiz
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Ricardo Ruiz is a staff scientist at The Molecular Foundry at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Additionally, he serves as the Director of the Center for High Precision Patterning Science (CHiPPS), a DOE-BES funded Energy Frontier Research Center dedicated to advancing patterning science in the Extreme Ultraviolet lithography era for semiconductor manufacturing. Dr. Ruiz specializes in nanofabrication, lithographic patterning, and self-assembly. From 2006 to 2019, he held various appointments at Hitachi GST/HGST/Western Digital, where he made significant contributions to magnetic bit patterned media and non-volatile memories, and managed a research group focused on block copolymer and nanoparticle lithography. Dr. Ruiz is a fellow of the American Physical Society. He earned his PhD in Physics from Vanderbilt University in 2003 and completed postdoctoral fellowships at Cornell University and IBM T.J. Watson.
