Dr. Jeffrey D. Wilson was born in Ashtabula, Ohio and grew up in Jefferson, Ohio. He received the B.S. degree in physics from Bowling Green State University in 1976, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in physics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1978 and 1983, respectively. His Ph.D. dissertation involved a computational study of large-scale atmospheric wave interactions between the middle latitudes and tropics. He spent the 1984-1985 academic year with the Air Force Thermionic Electronics Research (AFTER) Program at the University of Utah. Since 1983, Dr. Wilson has been employed with the vacuum electronics microwave amplifier research group at NASA Glenn Research Center, Cleveland, Ohio

His research efforts have focused on computational techniques to optimize the design and performance of coupled-cavity, helical, and novel traveling-wave tubes (TWT’s) and to investigate the properties of left-handed metamaterials.He has managed and collaborated on many TWT research and design projects, mentored seventeen undergraduate and graduate student interns, written a book chapter, and published and presented numerous papers. He is the principal investigator on the NASA Glenn Research Center Director’s Discretionary Fund program “Left-handed Metamaterial Lens for Ultra-high Resolution Biomedical Imaging” and the National Reconnaissance Office Director’s Innovation Initiative program “Robust Slow-Wave Circuits for High-Frequency Vacuum Electronic Communications Amplifiers.” His current research interests are metamaterials, robust optimized design, bioelectromagnetics,and radiation shielding.Dr.Wilson is a Senior Member of IEEE.