Eric Forsythe

Eric Forsythe is a Staff Physicist at the U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command, known as DEVCOM, Army Research Laboratory executing the Office of the Secretary of Defense funded NextFlex Manufacturing Institute and is the Technical Lead of ARL’s Hybrid Electronics Research under an Essential Research Program. Prior to assuming these responsibilities in 2015, he executed several public-private partnerships supporting DOD and commercial transitions, to include; the U.S. Army Flexible Display Center and the SEMI FlexTech Alliance programs. These two programs contributed to the acceleration of flexible display manufacturing technologies for commercial and DOD applications. The flexible display development transitioned to flexible x-ray imagers for explosive ordnance disposal DOD applications in 2011. Flexible x-ray imagers have successfully transitioned to DOD applications. In his current role as the NextFlex program manager, he is developing hybrid electronics manufacturing for electronic assembly and packaging to support DOD’s Modernization Priorities. As the ARL Technical Lead, he is translating ARL internal research to industrial relevant results through these public-private partnerships. Prior to joining the Army Research Laboratory, he was a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the University of Rochester Physics and Chemistry Departments studying interfaces in organic light emitting diodes. In the position, he worked closely with Eastman Kodak, and the inventors of the OLED display technology. He earned his B.S. in Engineering Physics (E.E. concertation) at the University of Maine, Orono and Ph.D. in Physics from Stevens Institute of Technology and has more than 75 publications (H-index of 22) and 9 patents issued or filed. Over the years, he served on numerous Professional Society committees.