Biography of Sheila G. Bailey

Sheila has been a senior physicist working in photovoltaics at NASA Glenn Research Center for 23 years. Her most recent projects include nanomaterials and nanostructures for space photovoltaics quantum wire III-V cells and quantum dot alpha-voltaics. She has authored or co-authored over 160 journal and conference publications, 8 book chapters and two patents. She is on the Editorial Board of “Progress in Photovoltaics”. She is an active member of the American Physical Society and a speaker for the American Institute of Physics Visiting Scientist Program. She is a member of AIAA Aerospace Power Systems technical committee. She was the chair of the 4th World Conference on Photovoltaic Energy Conversion in May, 2006. She is vice president of the Lewis Engineers and Scientists Association. Currently she is an adjunct professor at both the Ohio Aerospace Institute and Baldwin Wallace College and an associate faculty member of the International Space University. She has a B.S. from Duke University in physics, a M.S. in physics from the Univ. of N.C. at Chapel Hill, and a Ph.D. in solid state physics from the University of Manchester in England. She spent a post-doctoral year at the Royal Military College (part of the Univ. of New South Wales) in Canberra, Australia, She is the recipient of the faculty excellence award from Baldwin Wallace College and the Federal Women's Program award. She is an Ohio Academy of Science "Exemplar". She was awarded the NASA Exceptional Service Medal for her work in space photovoltaics. She has completed the Office of Personnel Management's Executive Potential Program. She was inducted into the Ohio Women’s Hall of Fame in 2003.