CEO, Dr. Andrew D. Hibbs

Dr. Hibbs is a leading scientific and industrial figure in the low-frequency electromagnetic sensing community. Before founding QUASAR in 1998, Dr. Hibbs served as CEO of Quantum Magnetics, where he oversaw all aspects of corporate growth and product development. Dr. Hibbs was responsible for shepherding an explosive detection system from early scientific investigation to commercially available product. He also secured private equity investments and successfully negotiated the acquisition of Quantum Magnetics by Invision. While at QM, Dr. Hibbs acquired all rights to IBM’s large portfolio of superconducting materials, device patents, and know-how.

Dr. Hibbs has been responsible for many important advances over a broad range of electromagnetic instrumentation. These include:

• QUASAR’s proprietary electric field sensors, which permit the first true free-space electric field measurements
• A SQUID-based imaging instrument (1992 R&D 100 Award), which enabled a superconducting sensor to make high sensitivity measurements while operating in an oscillating magnetic field (over 50 units sold worldwide)
• The first commercially available Nuclear Quadrupole Resonance (NQR) explosive detector (1995 R&D 100 Award)
• A SQUID-based variable temperature NMR system for very low frequency measurements

Dr. Hibbs was named “Person of the Year” by Superconductor Week in 1994 and received the Grand Winner, SBIR Technology of the Year award in 1999. Dr. Hibbs earned his PhD in Physics, and his B.A. and M.S. in Engineering, all from Cambridge University.

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