BACKGROUND

Dr. Stuart Solin is NOT your typical mediator who is likely to be an active or previously active attorney or judge. Rather, Dr. Solin is a retired university professor of Physics who has embarked on a new career as a mediator. As the Director of large research centers at major Universities such as the University of Chicago and Washington University in St. Louis he has had to mediate numerous disputes between faculty members, between faculty and administrators, between faculty and graduate students, etc. and his colleagues have told him that he has a natural talent for such mediation endeavors. This history is what drove his interest in becoming a professional mediator. Since becoming a Florida Supreme Court Certified Circuit Court and County Court Mediator, Dr. Solin has conducted numerous mediations in diverse areas and continues to enhance his experience. Let him bring his unique skills and qualifications to bear on your particular issue so that he can facilitate a mutually beneficial resolution for you and your adversary.

To familiarize you with Dr. Solin’s academic background, a brief summary is presented herewith. Professor Solin received his BS degree in Physics from MIT in 1963 after only three years of study and received his MS and PhD degrees from Purdue University in 1965 and 1969, respectively. After receiving his PhD he skipped the usual postdoctoral period and joined the faculty of the University of Chicago where he received early tenure and became Co-director of the National Science Foundation Materials Research Laboratory. In 1979 he moved to Michigan State University and shortly thereafter organized and directed the Center For Fundamental Materials Research. In 1989 Professor Solin joined the NEC Research Institute in Princeton, NJ, as a Fellow, the highest scientific rank in the company. He twice served as chair of the Board of Fellows, the governing body of the Institute. While at NEC he accepted a visiting professorship in Physics at Imperial College, London which he maintains to date. In 2002 Prof. Solin became the first Charles M. Hohenberg Chair of Experimental Physics in the School of Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis. He was also professor of Materials Science in the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and the organizer and first Director (2003 – 2011) of the Center for Materials Innovation, a cross-disciplinary research center which included 42 faculty members spanning 13 departments. Prof. Solin retired from Washington University in 2017 and became the Charles M. Hohenberg chaired professor of Physics, emeritus.

A former Sloan Fellow, Fellow of the Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science, and Lady Davis Israeli Fellowship recipient, Professor Solin is also a Fellow of the American Physical Society and a Fellow and Chartered Physicist of the Institute of Physics, UK. In 2012 he received the James B. Eads Outstanding Scientist Award of the St. Louis Academy of Science. Prof. Solin became a Distinguished Professor at MSU in 1988 and received the Distinguished Alumnus Award from Purdue University in 1997 and an honorary Doctor of Science degree from Purdue in 2003. He also received the Best Patent Award for 1998 and the Technology Impact Award for 2000 from NEC. His discovery of the new phenomenon of Extraordinary Magnetoresistance (EMR) and demonstration of a nanoscopic EMR magnetic field sensor was selected by the American Physical Society as one of the ten most important research achievements in Physics in 2002. This discovery has spawned a new class of EXX phenomena that now also includes extraordinary optoconductance (EOC), inverse extraordinary optoconductance (I-EOC), extraordinary piezoconductance (EPC), and extraordinary electroconductance (EEC). Throughout his career Professor Solin's research focus has been fundamental physical phenomena in ordered and disordered solids.

Prof. Solin has published over 280 peer reviewed scientific articles, has been co-inventor on 18 patents, has edited or co-edited several books, has authored many invited scholarly review articles and some pieces for the popular press, e.g. Scientific American. He has presented numerous invited lectures including several plenary lectures at national and international conferences. Professor Solin served for 12 years as a Principal Editor of the Journal of Materials Research and is a Member of the US Editorial Advisory Board of the Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter. He is also the Co-Founder of PixelEXX Systems, Inc., a start up company based in Chicago whose mission is to market EXX nano-arrays for biological, medical/clinical and other applications.

Prof. Solin has been married to Eileen Lynn Chernock, a Boston University graduate, for 55 years. They have three married children, Beth who lives with her husband and two children in Fair Haven, NJ, Laura who lives with her husband and two children in New York City, and Jeff who lives with his wife and two children in Chicago.