Michael Scarpulla (Senior Member, IEEE) received the Sc.B. degree from Brown University in 2000 and the Ph.D. degree from UC Berkeley in 2006, all in materials science and engineering. His Ph.D. work focused on laser processing of ion implanted compound semiconductors, carrier mediated ferromagnetism, and multiband semiconductors. From 2006 to 2008, he was a Postdoctoral Scholar with UC Santa Barbara working on epitaxial integration of rare-earth pnictides with III–V semiconductors using MBE. Since joining the ECE and MSE faculties at the University of Utah in 2008, he has worked on light trapping for photovoltaics, materials processing and characterization of chalcogenide thin film photovoltaics, reflectometry in photovoltaic systems, and defects in wide-bandgap semiconductors. His hobbies include skiing, climbing, and other mountain adventures.