DE Advisory Board, Dr. Charles Johnson-Bey

Bio: Dr. Brad W. Hoff serves as the Senior Scientist (ST) for High Power Electromagnetics (HPEM) for the Department of the Air Force. He serves as the principal scientific authority and independent researcher in the sciences and technologies associated with high power electromagnetics and their application to Air Force mission areas.  After receiving his PhD from the University of Michigan, Dr. Hoff began his career with the Air Force in 2009 at the AFRL Directed Energy Directorate, Kirtland AFB. Throughout his career, he has led efforts to identify and understand key science challenges in high power electromagnetic directed energy technology development areas, worked within the basic and applied research communities to create and prove novel concepts to solve these challenges, and rapidly matured and implemented solutions to enable demonstration of next generation HPEM systems and address future warfighter needs. Dr. Hoff is a recipient of AFRL’s Fellow and S&T Early Career Awards, and is a Fellow of the Directed Energy Professional Society and of the Institute of Physics.