Dr. Ubic's background is in Materials Science. He obtained both his Bachelors (1993) and Masters (1994) degrees in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Case Western Reserve University. He earned his PhD (1998) from the University of Sheffield, England where he stayed on for two subsequent years as a post-doctoral research associate. He arrived as a lecturer (assistant professor) at Queen Mary, University of London at the end of 1999 and was promoted to senior lecturer (associate professor) in 2005. In 2007 he moved to Boise State University to help lead teaching and research involving the JEOL JEM-2100 HR transmission electron microscope (TEM). He is now an associate professor of materials science and director of the Boise State Center for Materials Characterization (BSCMC).
