Ruben J. Fair

Ruben J. Fair (Senior Member, IEEE) received the B.Sc. (Hons.) degree in electrical engineering and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the Imperial College of Science and Technology, London, U.K., in 1985 and 1991, respectively. In 1988, he joined GEC-Alsthom Large Machines, Ltd., as a Hydrogenerator Design Engineer and left in 1994 to join Oxford Instruments (NMR division) as a Design and Development Engineer working on a range of new superconducting magnets, including the world's first persistent 900-MHz NMR magnet. In 1999, he became a Principal Engineer with Oxford Instruments (Research Instruments) to lead a team of engineers developing superconducting magnets and ultralow temperature refrigerators for the physics community. In 2005, he was selected to lead the new product introduction engineering team, Oxford Instruments Nanoscience. In 2007, he joined Converteam (now General Electric Power Conversion) where he led a team of engineers to develop the world's first high-temperature superconducting hydrogenerator and also set up a Cryogenics Laboratory. In 2010, he was recruited by the General Electric Global Research Center, Niskayuna, NY, USA, to develop a strategic road map for a range of superconducting machines. While with the research center, he led a team which was awarded funding from the Department of Energy to design a superconducting wind turbine generator. He accepted a position as a Principal Engineer with the Jefferson Laboratory, Newport News, VA, USA, in 2013 to lead a team overseeing the design, build, installation, and commissioning of eight superconducting magnets for the 12 GeV accelerator upgrade project. He also contributed a chapter to High Temperature Superconductors (HTS) for Energy Applications (Woodhead Publishing, 2011). He has publications in review journals and patents. Dr. Fair is a Technical Editor and Reviewer for the IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity. He is a Chartered Engineer and a member of the Institute of Engineering and Technology, U.K.