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 of Case Western Reserve University.  His PhD (1998) was obtained 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 made a senior lecturer (associate professor) in 2005.  In 2007 he moved to Boise State University to help lead teaching and research involving the newly acquired JEOL JEM-2100 HR Transmission Electron Microscope (TEM).

Dr. Ubic has received several awards, including the 1998 Berthold Eichler Memorial Prize from G.R. Stein Refractories Ltd., the American Ceramic Society's (ACerS) 2003 Edward C. Henry Best Paper Award for his high-resolution TEM work on defect pyrochlores, the ACerS 2004 Robert L. Coble Award for Young Scholars for his "contributions relating crystallography to the behavior of dielectric properties in complex compounds," and the 2006 Edgar Andrews Best Journal Article Prize for his work on the structure of a perovskite superlattice.

Dr. Ubic is a member of the Institute of Physics (Electron Microscopy and Analysis Group), the American Ceramic Society; and he currently serves as an associate editor of the Materials Research Bulletin.