After earning B.Sc. degree in physics in 1986 from
Imperial
College,
Hill earned a Ph.D. in physics from the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology in 1992. From there, he joined the Department of Physics,
Brookhaven National Laboratory, as a post-doc. He was promoted
through the ranks and received tenure in 1999. He was appointed
Group Leader of the X-ray Scattering Group in 2001.
He served on the NSLS UEC from 1999 to 2001, and from 2001 to 2007,
he was the Executive Director of IXS-CDT, a consortium that led the
design, construction and commissioning of an inelastic x-ray
scattering beamline at the Advanced Photon Source, utilizing funds
from the U.S. Department of Energy and the National Science
Foundation.
His research is presently focused on understanding the novel
electronic ground states and excitations in strongly correlated
electron systems using inelastic and resonant x-ray scattering
techniques. Hill was awarded the Presidential Early Career Award and
the DOE Young Independent Scientist Award in 1996 and was elected a
fellow of the APS in 2002.
In February 2006, he
was appointed Experimental Facilities Division Director for the
NSLS-II project, with responsibility for overseeing all aspects of
the design, construction and commissioning of the Experimental
Facilities, a scope of work that includes beamlines, the associated
R+D programs and the interaction with users.
