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Currently the director of undergraduate studies for applied physics, Grober is also a professor of physics. His research on the development of near-field scanning optical microscopy -- a technique used to obtain optical images with spatial resolution less than the diffraction limit -- has applications in the semiconductor and telecommunications industries, particularly in the fabrication of semiconductor nanostructures, as well as in gene mapping, specifically for the imaging of fluorescently labeled DNA.
Also an expert in materials physics, Grober has done research on the combined use of optical spectroscopy and high-spatial resolution optical imaging as a tool for characterizing the structure and behavior of materials.
Grober has used near-field optics for both structural and chemical analysis, and he pioneered the use of near-field scanning optical microscopy as a tool for the characterization of quantum wells and wires at very low temperatures.
For his scientific contributions, he was selected as one of the 20 "most promising science and engineering researchers at universities in the United States" by the David and Lucile Packard Foundation in 2000. The foundation awarded him a five-year $500,000 fellowship to further his research. In 2001 he was one of 20 junior faculty members awarded a University Fellowship from Yale in support of his work. The fellowship, given to outstanding junior faculty at a critical point in their careers, freed Grober from teaching for a year to pursue his research. He spent the year as a visiting scientist at the Ludwig Maximillan Universität in Munich, Germany. He has written more than 40 articles for science publications, and he is a frequent lecturer at national scientific meetings.
Grober earned his undergraduate degree from Vanderbilt University, where he majored in physics and mathematics. He received M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Maryland-College Park. He was a postdoctoral member of the technical staff at the Materials Chemistry Research Laboratory at AT&T Bell Labs from 1992 to 1994. The lab designed and built the world's first cryogenic near-field scanning optical microscope, and Grober implemented the new device to investigate the optical properties of semiconductor nanostructures.
The physicist joined the Yale faculty in 1994 as an assistant professor of applied physics and physics. He was named the Barton A. Weller Associate Professor of Applied Physics and Physics in 1999. He serves on the Yale Committee on Athletics.
Beyond Yale, Grober has consulted on issues of national security as a member of the 2002 Defense Science Board's "Precision Targeting" Summer Study Group and as a member of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency/Institute for Defense Analyses Defense Science Study Group.
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