Vladimir Matias

Vladimir (Vlad) Matias is the Founder and President of iBeam Materials. He holds degrees from Caltech (BS) and Stanford (PhD), and has over 25 years of experience with advanced film technology, both within the commercial sector (in two startups, Conductus in California and Oxxel in Germany) and in government R&D institutions supporting the development of commercial technologies. At Los Alamos National Lab he worked closely with industry in technology transfer and has been involved in technology development from initial scientific breakthroughs through to manufacturing and commercialization. He is the world leader in the development of the ion-beam alignment process and associated technologies, with about 150 technical papers and over a dozen related patents. Vlad and his team were also recognized by two national R&D 100 awards (2003 and 2010).