Maria C. Tamargo

Maria C. Tamargo is a leading Cuban-American scientist in compound semiconductors and materials science. She is a professor of chemistry at The City College of New York.

Maria Tamargo received her first degree (B.S.) in Chemistry from the University of Puerto Rico in 1972. She moved to Johns Hopkins University where she completed an M.S. in Chemistry in 1974 followed by a Ph.D. in Chemistry in 1978.

Maria Tamargo's research covers a wide range of compound semiconductors and she has particular expertise in molecular beam epitaxy.

After completing her Ph.D. at Johns Hopkins University she spent several years as Technical Staff at AT&T Bell Labs (1978-1984) and Bellcore (1984-1993).

In 1993 she became a Professor of Chemistry at City College of New York. Between 2001 and 2007 she held the post of Dean of Science at City College of New York. She is currently the centre director or CREST Center for Interface Design and Engineered Assembly of Low Dimensional Systems (IDEALS).

She is also the author of over 300 papers in the field of semiconductor research.

Tamargo was elected a fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) in 2000 for "significant original contributions to the development and understanding of the growth and properties of novel semiconductor materials and heterostructures, in par- ticular, in the field of wide bandgap II-VI compounds."

She holds a number of patents.

Maria Tamargo edited a book titled "II-VI Semiconductor Materials and their Applications", which is part of the series "Optoelectronic properties of semiconductors and superlattices".