Center for Emergent Superconductivity

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George W. Crabtree

MSD-223
Argonne National Laboratory
9700 S. Cass Avenue
Argonne, IL 60439

Phone: (630) 252-5509
Fax:     (630) 252-8042
Email:  crabtree@anl.gov
Web:   http://www.msd.anl.gov/index.php/division-personnel/54-personnel-admin/225-crabtree

 

Educational Background

• Ph.D. in Condensed Matter Physics, University of Illinois at Chicago

Present Position

• Senior Scientist, Distinguished Fellow and Associate Division Director
  Materials Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory

Professional Experiences

• 1990-present Distinguished Fellow, Argonne National Laboratory
• 2001- 2008 Director, Materials Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory
• 1993-2001 Associate Division Director, Materials Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory
• 1989-2003 Professor, (25%) Department of Physics, Northern Illinois University DeKalb, IL
• 1985-present Senior Physicist, Materials Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory

Selected Honors & Awards

• U.S. Department of Energy Awards for Outstanding Scientific Accomplishment in Solid State Physics, 1982 and 1985
• Fellow, American Physical Society, 1983
• DOE Materials Science Award for Outstanding Research in Solid State Physics with Implications for DOE-related Energy Technologies, “Magneto-optical Imaging of Magnetic Fields and Transport Currents in Superconductors, 1995
• DOE Materials Science Award for Outstanding Research in Solid State Physics, “Vortex Lattice Melting in Superconductors,” 1997
• R&D 100 Award, “Magnetic Flux Imaging System,” 1996
• Federal Laboratory Consortium Award for Technology Transfer, “Magnetic Flux Imaging System,” 1997
• ISI Highly Cited Researcher in Physics since 2001
• Kamerlingh Onnes Prize, 2003, “for pioneering and seminal experiments which elucidated the vortex phase diagram in high temperature superconductors under various conditions of disorder and anisotropy,” (awarded once every three years)
• Kilpatrick Lecturer, Illinois Institute of Technology, 2005
• Member, National Academy of Sciences, elected 2008
• Vaden Miles Lecturer, Wayne State University, Detroit MI, 2009
• Birnbaum Lecturer, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2009

Selected Professional Activities

• Editor, Physica C, 1987- 2003.
• Divisional Associate Editor, Physical Review Letters, 1998 - 2001.
• Member, Review Panel, United Kingdom Program on Superconductivity, June 16-18, 2001.
• Member, DOE Review Panel for Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, Oct 7-10, 2001.
• Member, Naval Research Laboratory Program Evaluation Panel, November 5, 2001.
• Organizer (with John Clarke), Post deadline evening plenary session on MgB2, March Meeting of the American Physical Society, Seattle WA, March 12, 2001
• Executive Committee of Division of Condensed Matter Physics, APS, 1998-2002, Chair 2001-2002
• Opponent, Thesis Defense of Dr. Andreas Rydh, Department of Physics, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden, January 25, 2002.
• Chairman, External Advisory Committee for the National High Field Magnet Laboratory,
  Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, 1998-2000; Member 1991- 2003.
• Editor, Special Review Issue Superconductivity in MgB2: Electrons, Phonons, and Vortices,
  Physica C 385, 1-305 (2003).
• Associate Chair and Principal Editor, Workshop on Basic Research Needs for the Hydrogen
  Economy, May 2003 (Millie Dresselhaus (Chair) and Michelle Buchanan (Associate Chair)).
• Congressional Witness, Fueling The Future: On The Road To The Hydrogen Economy,
  Hearing of the House Science Committee, Subcommittees on Energy and Research,
  July 20, 2005.
• Co-Chair and Report Editor, Workshop on Basic Research Needs for Solar Energy Utilization,
  April 2005 (with Nathan S. Lewis (Caltech)).
• Organizing Committee and Principal Editor, Workshop on Basic Research Needs for Superconductivity, May 2006.
• Co-chair, Under Secretary of Energy’s Assessment of Applied Energy Programs, 2005-2006
  Organizing Committee, International Conference on Mesoscopic Superconductivity and Magnetism, Chicago IL September 28 – October 1, 2006.
• Associate Chair and Report Co-Editor, Workshop on Basic Research Needs for Materials under Extreme Environments, (with Jeff Wadsworth (Chair) and Russell Hemley (Associate Chair)), June 2007.
• NSF On-Site Review Team, National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, January 9-11, 2007.
• Member, Solid State Sciences Committee of the National Research Council/National Academy of Sciences, 2007-2010.
• Member, American Physical Society Panel on Public Affairs, 2007-2010.
• Member, External Advisory Committee, Materials Research Laboratory, UIUC, 2006-present.
• Member, External Advisory Board, Harvard University Materials Research Science and Engineering Center, 2007-present.
• Member, External Advisory Board, University of Chicago Materials Research Science and Engineering Center, 2007-present.
• Member, External Advisory Board, Northwestern University Materials Research Science and Engineering Center, 2007-present
• Member, External Advisory Board, Northwestern University Department of Materials Science and Engineering, 2007-present.
• Member, Selection Committee, David Adler Lectureship in Materials Physics, 2008.
• Member, Karl W. Boer Solar Energy Medal of Merit Award Selection Committee, 2008.
• Member, American Physical Society Study on Energy Efficiency, 2007-2008.
• Member, Oversight Board, Ames National Laboratory, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, 2007-present.
• Member, Science Policy Committee, Stanford Linear Accelerator Laboratory, Stanford, CA, 2008- present.
• Chair, Program Committee, American Physical Society Workshop on Energy, Denver CO, March 4, 2008.
• Organizing Committee and Opening Speaker, MRS Energy Day, San Francisco CA, March 24, 2008.
• Member, Organizing Committee, MRS Special Issue Harnessing Materials for Energy, MRS Bulletin, April 2008.
• Chair, NSF Site Review Team, National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, Tallahassee FL, December 8-10, 2008.
• Co-Chair and Report Editor, Facing our Energy Challenges in a New Era of Science, subcommittee of the Basic Energy Sciences Advisory Committee, Department of Energy, 2008.

Research Interests

•  Materials science
• Nanoscale superconductors and magnets
• Vortex matter in superconductors
• Highly correlated electrons in metals
• Sustainable energy production, storage and use

Research Supervision

• 15 students and postdocs supervised since 1990

Additional Information

• Selected Invited Talks at Conferences (of 113), Selected Publications - View File (pdf)
• Biography (pdf)