Jonathan Bird joined the faculty of the UB Department of Electrical Engineering as Professor in Fall 2004. Prior to this, he obtained his B.Sc. (First-Class Honors) and Ph.D. degrees in Physics from the University of Sussex (United Kingdom), in 1986 and 1990, respectively. He was a JSPS visiting fellow at the University of Tsukuba (Japan) from 1991 - 1992, after which he joined the Frontier Research Program of the Institute of Physical and Chemical Research (RIKEN, also in Japan). In 1997, he was appointed as Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Arizona State University, where he served until joining UB. Prof. Bird's research is in the area of nanoelectronics. He is the co-author of more than a hundred peer-reviewed publications as well as of an undergraduate textbook.

The results of this research have been published in more than two hundred peer-reviewed publications that have been cited more than nine hundred times in the literature (h-index: 22). Prof. Bird is also the co-author of an undergraduate textbook (Electronic Materials and Devices, Academic Press, with D. K. Ferry), the editor of a research monograph (Electron Transport in Quantum Dots, Kluwer-Academic), and a co-author of the second edition of "Transport in Nanostructures" (with D. K. Ferry & S. M. Goodnick, Cambridge University Press, scheduled for 2008/2009).

• M.-G. Kang, T. Morimoto, N. Aoki, J-U. Bae, Y. Ochiai, and J. P. Bird, “Aharonov-Bohm effect in the magneto-resistance of a multi-walled carbon nanotube with tunneling contacts”, Phys. Rev. B 77, 113408 (2008)
• T. Kim, B. Naser, R. V. Chamberlin, M. V. Schilfgaarde, P. A. Bennett, and J. P. Bird, “Large hysteretic magneto-resistance of silicide nanostructures”, Phys. Rev. B 76, 184404 (2007)
• Y. Yoon, L. Mourokh, T. Morimoto, N. Aoki, Y. Ochiai, J. L. Reno, and J. P. Bird, “Probing the microscopic structure of bound states in quantum point contacts”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 136805 (2007)
• J.-U. Bae, T.-Y. Lin, Y. Yoon, S. J. Kim, J. P. Bird, A. Imre, W. Porod, and J. L. Reno, “Large hysteretic magneto-resistance in high-mobility semiconductor quantum wires bridged by single-domain nanomagnets”, Appl. Phys. Lett. 91, 022105 (2007)
• R. Brunner, R. Meisels, F. Kuchar, R. Akis, D. K. Ferry, and J. P. Bird, “Draining of the sea of chaos: Role of resonant transmission and reflection in an array of billiards”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 204101 (2007)
• B. Naser, D. K. Ferry, J. Heeren, J. L. Reno, and J. P. Bird, “Pulsed measurements of the non-linear conductance of quantum point contacts”, Appl. Phys. Lett. 90, 043103 (2007)
• A. Ramamoorthy, J. P. Bird, and J. L. Reno, “Quantum asymmetry of switching in laterally-coupled quantum wires with tunable coupling strength”, Appl. Phys. Lett. 89, 153128 (2006)
• N. A. Kabir, Y. Yoon, J. R. Knab, J.-Y. Chen, A. G. Markelz, J. L. Reno, Y. Sadofyev, S. Johnson and Y.-H. Zhang, and J. P. Bird, “Terahertz transmission characteristics of high-mobility GaAs and InAs two-dimensional-electron-gas systems”, Appl. Phys. Lett. 89, 132109 (2006)
• T. Morimoto, M. Henmi, R. Naito, K. Tsubaki, N. Aoki, J. P. Bird, and Y. Ochiai, “Resonantly enhanced nonlinear conductance in long quantum point contacts near pinch-off”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 096801 (2006)
• B. Naser, D. K. Ferry, J. Heeren, J. L. Reno, and J. P. Bird, “Large capacitance in the nanosecond-scale transient response of quantum point contacts”, Appl. Phys. Lett. 89, 083103 (2006)
• A. Ramamoorthy, J. P. Bird, and J. L. Reno, “Switching characteristics of coupled quantum wires with tunable coupling strength”, Appl. Phys. Lett. 89, 013118 (2006)
• K. Ogawa, T. Kato, A. Ikegami, H. Tsuji, N. Aoki, J. P. Bird, and Y. Ochiai, “Electrical properties of field-effect transistors based on C60 nano-whiskers”, Appl. Phys. Lett. 88, 112109 (2006)
• L. Mourokh, V. I. Puller, A. Yu. Smirnov, and J. P. Bird, “Readout of single spins via Fano resonances in quantum point contacts”, Appl. Phys. Lett. 87, 192501 (2005)
• J. Fransson, J.-F. Lin, L. Rotkina, J. P. Bird, and P. A. Bennett, “Signatures of band-like tunneling in granular nanowires”, Phys. Rev. B 72, 113411 (2005)
• D. K. Ferry, R. Akis, and J. P. Bird, “Einselection in action: Decoherence-induced selection of preferred pointer states in open quantum dots”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 026803 (2004)
• V. I. Puller, L. G. Mourokh, A. Shailos, and J. P. Bird, “Detection of local-moment formation using the resonant interaction between coupled quantum wires”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 096802 (2004)
• J. P. Bird and Y. Ochiai, “Electron spin polarization in nanoscale constrictions”, Science 303, 1621 – 1622 (2004)