Dr. Jeffrey D. Wilson is a research engineer at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Glenn Research Center at Lewis Field in Cleveland, Ohio. His current research interests are metamaterials, robust optimized design, bioelectromagnetics, and radiation shielding.

Dr. Wilson earned his bachelor’s degree in physics from Bowling Green State University in 1976, and his master’s and doctoral 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 an academic year in 1984 with the Air Force Thermionic Electronics Research (AFTER) Program at the University of Utah.

Dr. Wilson’s research efforts have focused on computational techniques to optimize the design and performance of coupled-cavity, helical, and novel traveling wave tubes (TWTs) and to investigate the properties of left-handed metamaterials. He has managed and collaborated on many TWT research and design projects, mentored 14 undergraduate and graduate student interns, written a book chapter, and published and presented numerous papers. He is the principal investigator for the NASA Glenn 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.” Dr. Wilson is a Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). He came to NASA Glenn in 1983.