Dr. Moustakas is the inaugural Distinguished Professor of Photonics and Optoelectronics at Boston University. He received his PhD from Columbia University in 1974. He held research positions at Harvard University and Exxon Corporate Research Laboratory prior to joining Boston University in 1987 as a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering. He is currently an Emeritus Professor of the Electrical and Computer Engineering, of the Division of Materials Science and Engineering and Physics Department at Boston University.

Dr. Moustakas’ research contributions cover a broad spectrum of topics in optoelectronic materials and devices, including nitride semiconductors, amorphous semiconductors, III-V compounds, diamond thin films and metallic multi-layers. He is the co-editor of eight books, including Gallium Nitride I (Academic Press, 1998) and Gallium Nitride II (academic Press, 1999), the author of chapters in eight books and 362 papers in technical journals (Google citations more than 17,000, h index 66). He served as a special editor of the Journal of Electronic Materials and the Journal of Vacuum Science and Technology. He presented 138 invited, keynote, and plenary talks in national and international conferences. He has been granted 39 U.S. patents and several are pending in the fields of nitride semiconductors, amorphous silicon and diamond materials. Intellectual property that resulted from his work has been licensed to more than 40 companies, including major manufacturers and users of blue and UV LEDs and lasers (Cree, Nichia, Philips, OSRAM, Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, Hewlett-Packard, Dell, Motorola, Samsung, LG, Sony, Panasonic, Sharp, NEC, Blackberry, Nokia etc.).