Tony Tomsia is a Senior Scientist at the Materials Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. Dr. Tomsia also holds a position as Adjunct Professor at the University of California, San Francisco. A native of Poland, he received M.S. from the University of Mining and Metallurgy, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the Institute of Materials Science, all in Krakow, Poland. He joined the Berkeley Lab in 1978 and assumed his present positions in 1988.

Tomsia has published more than 200 papers in the fields of biomaterials, ceramic-metal joining and physics of solid-liquid interfaces. He is a Fellow of the American Ceramic Society. His numerous awards include a Humboldt Research Award for senior US Scientists and an International Union of Materials Research Society’s Award for International Collaboration. Tomsia was elected in 2006 as one of Scientific American’s 50 (Technology Leaders).