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Research Interests: Biomedical applications/health effects of nonionizing electromagnetic fields; impact of technology on society
K. R. Foster and J. Jaeger, The murky ethics of RFIDs, IEEE Spectrum March 2007.
Should children use mobile phones? FGF conference, Stuttgart, Germany, Dec. 2006
Radiofrequency field surveys on WLANS, COST 281 conference, Graz Austria April /06
Four lectures at International seminar on ELF fields, Brasilia, Brazil, August 2006
Mechanisms of Interaction of ELF Fields with Biological System: Can the Physics and Biology be Reconciled?; Ultrawideband Pulses: Interaction Mechanisms in the Time Domain UNESCO/WHO Seminar and NATO Advanced Research Workshop, Yerevan Armenia March 2005
Modulation as factor in biological effects of radiofrequency fields. COST 281 workshop, Zurich, February 2005
Lectures on biological effects of radiofrequency fields , Gazi University, Ankara Turkey March 2008
Q. Balzano, K. R. Foster, A. Sheppard, Field and Temperature Gradients from Short Conductors in a Dissipative Medium, International Journal of Antennas and Propagation, International Journal of Antennas and Propagation, Volume 2007 (2007).
K. R. Foster. Peering Into the Brain. Hale Lecture in Ethics, Rochester Institute of Technology, Jan. 2008
Mobile phones and health, Argentine Physics Society, Salta Argentina Sept 2007
K. R. Foster, Potential artifacts in studies of effects of electromagnetic fields on brain function, FGF conference, Stuttgart, Germany, Nov. 2007
K. R. Foster and R. Glaser, Thermal Mechanisms of Interaction of Radiofrequency Energy with Biological Systems With Relevance to Exposure Guidelines. Health Physics 92 (6): 609-620 JUN 2007
R. Giegengack and K. R. Foster. Physical Constraints on Rebuilding New Orleans. In Rebuilding Urban Places After Disaster, E. Birch and S. Wachter, eds. Univ of Pennsylvania Press (2006)
K. R. Foster, Radiofrequency Exposure from Wireless LANs, Health Physics 92:289-289 (2007)
Should children use mobile phones? FGF conference, Stuttgart, Germany, Dec. 2006
K. R. Foster Mechanisms of Interaction of RF Fields With Biological Systems as Related to Modulation, FGF conference, Rostock Germany, September 2006
K. R. Foster, health effects of powerline fields (three lectures). Brasilia,Brazil, Aug 2006
K. R. Foster. One third of a century of research on the biological effects of radiofrequency energy: what have we learned? Workshop on RF dosimetry, Tokyo August 2006
Mechanisms of interaction of radiofrequency fields with biological systems 2006 PIERS conference, Tokyo 2006
R. Giegengack and K. R. Foster. Physical Constraints on Rebuilding New Orleans. In Rebuilding Urban Places After Disaster, E. Birch and S. Wachter, eds. Univ of Pennsylvania Press (anticipated publication Aug 2006)
K. R. Foster, Mechanisms of interaction of electromagnetic fields with biological systems: implications for exposure guidelines. ICNIRP conference, Berlin, 3/06
K. R. Foster, Radiofrequency field surveys on WLANS, COST 281 conference, Graz Austria 4/06
T. T. Chau and K. R. Foster, Should Children Use Mobile Phones? IEEE Microwave Magazine, 6(4):18-30,2005. http://repository.upenn.edu/be_papers/68
K. R. Foster and I. A. Lerch, Collateral Damage to American Science from the War on Terrorism, IEEE Technology and Society Magazine, 24:45-52 (2005).
K. R. Foster, Engineering the Brain, in Neuroethics, Oxford University Press, 2005, pp. 185-200.
K. R. Foster. The Mechanisms paradox. Bioelectromagnetics, S. Arapetyan and M. S. Markov, eds.NATO Advanced Science Series, 2006. Pp. 17-29.
K. R. Foster and R. Giegengack. Katrina: Planning For a City on the Brink, in D. Kettl et al, eds. Katrina, Risk and Responsibility, University of Pennsylvania Press (2006).
Catastrophe (book review) Science 307:1205 (2005)
Dark Light (book review) IEEE Spectrum (Feb. 2005)
K. R. Foster, Modeling The Thermal Response of the Body to RF Energy Exposure (COST 281/ICES workshop, Paris, Sept. 2004)
K. R. Foster and M. Repacholi, Biological Effects of Radiofrequency Fields: Does Modulation Matter?, Radiation Research 162:219-225 (2004)
P. Douglas, C. Morgan, H. Lee, K. R. Foster LVAD As Destination Therapy - The Economic Dilemma. Technology in Society Magazine, 23(2):23-27 (2004)
K. R. Foster, Bioelectromagenetics and Microwaves, International Microwave Power Symposium, Toronto CA July 2004m (keynote presentation)
K. R. Foster, Security Concerns, Scientific Societies, and Globalization. IEEE Society on Social Implications of Technology conference (ISTAS), Worcester MA June 2004
Q Balzano, AR Sheppard, KR Foster, ML Swicord, Field and temperature gradients in tissues near resonant short wires. Bioelectromagnetics Society Annual Meeting, Washington DC June 2004
K. R. Foster, Hot Topics in Non-Ionizing Radiation, American Industrial Hygiene Association, Atlanta, May 2004
K. R. Foster, Health effects of powerline fields and precautionary approaches to EM field regulation. Seminario Internacional sobre campos electromagneticos de baixa frequencia e sues efeitos, Brasilia, November 2003 Portugese translation of paper
K. R. Foster, Mechanisms of Interaction of ELF Fields and Biological Systems, Radiat. Prot. Dosim. 106(4), pp 301-310 (2003)
K. R. Foster, P.R. Wolpe, A. L. Caplan, Bioethics and the Brain IEEE Spectrum June 2003
<http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/WEBONLY/publicfeature/jun03/bio.html>
Laurence JA, McKenzie DR, Foster KR. Application of the heat equation to the calculation of temperature rises from pulsed microwave exposure.J Theor Biol. 222(3):403-5 (2003).
K. R. Foster, J. A. D'Andrea, S Chalfin, DJ Hatcher. Thermal modeling of millimeter wave damage to the primate cornea at 35 GHz and 94 GHz. Health Physics 84 (6): 764-769 (2003)
Risk and Reason (book review) Science 299:348-9 (January 17, 2003).
IEEE Committee on Man and Radiation (COMAR)
Class Home Pages
EAS303 Ethics and Professional Responsibility for Engineers http://www.seas.upenn.edu/~kfoster/EAS303.htm
"For better or worse, technology has changed. Our days of innocence, when machines were solely a product of larger-than-life inventors and hardworking engineers, are gone. Increasingly, technology will be a joint effort, with its design shaped not only by engineers and executives but also psychologists, political scientists, management theorists, risk specialists, regulators and courts, and the general public. It will not be a neat system. It is probably not the best system. But, given the power and complexity of modern technology, it is likely our only choice."
R. Pool, Beyond Engineering (Oxford Univ. Press. 1997) p. 305.
