Resume

• 2009

  Oak Ridge

  TN

  Agilent acquired MTS Nano Instruments on June 30

  retaining the Nanomechanical Instruments Operations (NIO) in Oak Ridge. On April 28

  Agilent announced its plan to close the Oak Ridge facility by October 31st

  citing the need to restructure and consolidate the organization.\n\nStaff Scientist

  Research and Development \n•\tPolymer Program

  project leader responsible for implementing Agilent’s Product Life Cycle (PLC) process

  conducting checkpoint reviews

  and coordinating finance

  marketing

  R&D

  production

  and service personnel for each stage of product development

  from product concept to product obsolescence. \n•\tServed as Agilent’s representative to the ASTM and ISO standardization committees for instrumented indentation testing. \n•\tServed as a materials science expert to the R&D department by participating in design planning

  verification

  validation

  and beta testing of new products. \n•\tPublished peer reviewed journal articles that demonstrated Agilent’s technical leadership in characterizing small-scale mechanical behavior. \n•\tServed the sales and marketing group in an advisory role for challenging applications.\n•\tDeveloped intellectual property for Agilent’s Nanomechanical Instruments Operations. This resulted in two invention disclosures submitted

  one patent granted

  and one patent filed with the European Patent Office.

  Staff Scientist

  Research & Development

  Agilent Technologies

  Knoxville

  TN

  My primary responsibilities included managing and performing various aspects of the externally funded research projects in George Pharr’s group

  pursuing additional funding opportunities to support our research goals

  and teaching the MSE Department’s undergraduate introductory Materials Science and Engineering course. \n\nDuring my time as a research faculty member

  I successfully obtained over $2.7M in external research funding from the US Department of Energy (DOE)

  the National Science Foundation (NSF)

  Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) and the Joint Institute for Advanced Materials (JIAM - UT/ORNL). Of the 8 proposals I wrote or significantly contributed to

  4 were successfully funded. \n\nAmong the projects I led or worked closely on were: \n•\tCharacterization of the mechanical properties of solid-state electrolytes for thin film battery applications\n•\tFurther development of in-situ mechanical characterization techniques in the scanning electron microscope\n•\tAdvancing non-ambient nanomechanical testing in high vacuum\n•\tCreating state-of-the-art test methods to characterize viscous energy dissipation at microstructural length scales in biological materials\n•\tCharacterizing the effect of irradiation on the mechanical behavior of next generation structural materials for advanced energy applications\n•\tFundamental studies of the mechanisms of small-scale plasticity\n•\tCharacterizing time dependent plastic deformation\n•\tDeveloping methods to determine constitutive uniaxial stress-strain behavior by means of instrumented indentation testing\n•\tAs a member of the Center for Defect Physics (CDP) at ORNL

  I developed an in-situ nanomechanical testing platform that enabled small numbers of dislocations to be controllably injected into a test specimen such that their motion could be observed in the synchrotron x-ray beam line at the Advanced Photon Source in Argonne National Laboratory

  Assistant Research Professor

  Department of Materials Science & Engineering

  University of Tennessee

• 2000

  PhD

  Materials Science and Engineering

  President

  UT Canoe and Hiking Club

• Materials

  Microscopy

  MEMS

  Thin Films

  R&D

  Polymers

  AFM

  Scanning Probe Microscopy

  Biomaterials

  Nanoindentation

  Electron Microscopy

  Materials Science

  Mechanical Testing

  Optical Microscopy

  Scanning Electron Microscopy

  Characterization

  Herbert

  Erik

  Herbert

  University of Tennessee

  Michigan Technological University

  Agilent Technologies

  MTS Nano Instruments

  Knoxville

  TN

  Group leader for Dr. George M. Pharr

  former Department Head

  Materials Science and Engineering. Coordinated and directed the experimental small-scale mechanical characterization work of the group's PhD candidates. Among the projects were:\n•\tRelating nanoindentation results to uniaxial creep and uniaxial stress-strain behavior \n•\tInvestigating the Indentation Size Effect (ISE)\n•\tAnalysis of brittle fracture mechanisms beneath sharp contacts\n•\tInvestigating the components of the complex modulus and demolding damage of low viscosity nanoimprint photoresists as a function of in-situ exposure to UV radiation and stamp geometry. This work was performed in collaboration with the Centre for Research on Adaptive Nanostructures and Nanodevices (CRANN) at Trinity College in Dublin

  Ireland.

  Postdoctoral Researcher

  Department of Materials Science & Engineering

  University of Tennessee

  Oak Ridge

  TN

  Staff Scientist

  Research and Development \n• Directed market research to better understand the needs of academia and industry with respect to small scale mechanical characterization of viscoelastic solids. \n• Developed university partnerships both domestic and abroad to expand nanoindentation techniques for polymers and biological materials. \n\nManager

  Analytical Services Laboratory \n• Managed four full-time applications engineers and one technician. Annually

  the lab assisted in generating approximately $8 million in instrument sales and contract services. \n• Developed customer training material and managed the group’s training programs. \n• Participated in the strategic planning process and implemented the resulting action plans. \n\nApplications Engineer \n• Implemented applications and marketing support

  customer training

  technical sales

  and conducted demonstration work to provide proof of concept to prospective customers. \n• Conducted over 120 presentations and a similar number of customer training days

  all of which helped grow the business from a group of 20 people with annual sales of $6 million

  to a group of 40 people with annual sales of nearly $10 million.

  Staff Scientist

  Analytical Services Laboratory Manager

  Applications Engineer

  MTS Nano Instruments

  Houghton

  MI

  State-of-the-art small-scale mechanical characterization of novel materials and systems such as but not limited to bulk materials

  thin films

  coatings

  modified surfaces

  micro-pillars

  fibers

  membranes

  hydrogels

  MEMS

  microfluidic and micromachined devices.\n\nFaculty website: http://www.mtu.edu/materials/department/faculty/herbert/\nPublications via Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=JQBukRYAAAAJ&hl=en\nPublications via Research Gate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Erik_Herbert

  Assistant Professor

  Department of Materials Science & Engineering

  Michigan Technological University