Bruce J. Gluckman joins Penn State as Associate Professor of Engineering Science and Mechanics and Associate Professor of Neurosurgery in the College of Medicine (Milton S. Hershey Medical Center).

Dr. Gluckman’s areas of expertise are in electromagnetic theory, non-linear dynamics and chaos control in relation to the study of neuronal networks, and the development of neural prosthetic devices that will help suppress seizures that occur in diseases such as epilepsy, Parkinson’s disease, psychiatric illnesses, chronic pain, spinal injuries, and strokes. His work has appeared in a wide range of elite journals such as the Journal of Neuroscience and Physical Review Letters. His interdisciplinary research is highly regarded and has resulted in invited talks at a wide range of meetings such as the Hippocampal Research Conference and the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) Dynamical Systems Meeting.

Dr. Gluckman joins Penn State from George Mason’s Center for Neural Dynamics, Department of Physics and Astronomy and the Krasnow Institute for Advanced Study. Dr. Gluckman is a member of the American Physical Society, the Society for Neuroscience, and the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics. He has had extensive teaching experience in the areas of applied electromagnetic theory, modern instrumentation, biological physics, and principles and development of modern physics. Dr. Gluckman has organized numerous conferences in the United States and abroad.

Dr. Gluckman, along with Dr. Steven J. Schiff who is also joining Penn State, will be responsible for developing research, education and service collaboration among the Departments of Neurosurgery and Engineering Science and Mechanics, The Colleges of Engineering and Medicine, the Materials Research Institute and the Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences. Dr. Gluckman received his Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering Physics at the University of Illinois and his doctorate in Experimental Solid State Physics at the University of Pennsylvania. He conducted post-doctoral training in Physics, Non-linear Dynamics and Chaos Control at the Naval Surface Warfare Center at Bethesda, Maryland. He is a past Assistant Professor in pediatrics at the Children’s Research Institute of the Children’s National Medical Center and the George Washington University School of Medicine. Dr. Gluckman is the recipient of a Whitaker Foundation Grant.