Prof. Eric Fullerton is an Endowed Chair Professor at UC San Diego's Center for Memory and Recording Research (CMRR) and a professor in the department of electrical and computer engineering and nanoengineering at UCSD's
Jacobs School of Engineering. Before joining UCSD in January 2007, Dr. Fullerton was a senior manager and research scientist in the Fundamentals of Nano-Structured Materials Group at
Hitachi Global Storage Technologies (formerly IBM Almaden Research Center). He is a fellow of the American Physical Society, and a past winner of the Exceptional Achievement Award at
Argonne National Laboratory, the IBM Outstanding Achievement Award, and the IBM Fourth Plateau Invention Achievement Award. Dr. Fullerton earned his
Ph.D. at UCSD in 1991.