E. Fred Schubert received his Ph. D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Stuttgart (Germany) in 1986. During 1985 to 1995, he worked for AT&T Bell Laboratories in Holmdel and Murray Hill, New Jersey. In 1995, he joined Boston University as a Professor of Electrical Engineering. In 2002 he was appointed Senior Constellation Professor of the Future Chip Constellation at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, NY.

Dr. Schubert has made pioneering contributions to the field of compound semiconductor materials and devices in particular to the fields of alloy broadening, delta-doping, resonant-cavity light-emitting diodes, elimination of unipolar heterojunction band discontinuities, p-type superlattice doping in AlGaN, polarization-enhanced ohmic contacts, and omni-directional reflectors for LEDs.

He is inventor or co-inventor of about 25 US patents and co-authored about 190 publications. He authored a book on doping in III–V semiconductors (1992), edited a book on delta doping in semiconductors (1996), and recently authored a book on light-emitting diodes (2003). He is a Fellow of APS, IEEE, OSA, and SPIE. He received the Alexander von Humboldt Senior Research Award, Discover Award, R&D 100 Award, Boston University Provost Innovation Fund Award, and VDE Literature Award for the book “Doping in III–V semiconductors”.