Center for Emergent Superconductivity

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J.C. Seamus Davis
(CES Director)

J. G. White Distinguished Professor of Physical Science
LASSP, Department of Physics
622 Clark Hall, Cornell University
Ithaca, NY 14853

Phone: (607) 254-8965
Lab:     (607) 254-2260
Email:   jcdavis -at- ccmr.cornell.edu
Web:    http://people.ccmr.cornell.edu/~jcdavis/

Educational Background

• B.Sc., (1st Hons.) Physics, University College Cork, 1983.
• Ph.D., Physics, University of California, Berkeley, 1989.

Appointments

• Graduate Research Assistant, Univ. of California at Berkeley, 1983-1989.
• Postdoctoral Research Associate, Univ. of California at Berkeley, 1989-1993.
• Assistant Professor of Physics, Univ. of California at Berkeley, 1993-1998.
• Faculty Physicist, L. Berkeley National Laboratory, CA 1998-2002.
• Associate Professor of Physics, Univ. of California at Berkeley, 1998-2000.
• Professor of Physics, Univ. of California at Berkeley, 2001-2002.
• Professor of Physics, Cornell University, 2003-2008.
• Senior Physicist, Brookhaven National Lab., Upton, NY, 2007-present.
• SUPA Distinguished Research Professor, St. Andrews University, Scotland, 2007-present.
• J.G. White Distinguished Professor of Physical Sciences, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 2008-present.
• DirDirector, Dept. of Energy EFRC - Center for Emergent Superconductivity, 2009-present

Fellowships & Awards

• NSF National Young Investigator Award, 1994-1999.
• Packard Fellowship in Science and Engineering, 1994-1999.
• Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship, 1996-1998.
• Miller Professorship, 2000-2001.
• Outstanding Performance Award, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab., 2001.
• Ehrenfest Lecturer, University of Leiden, 2002.
• Fellow of Inst. of Physics, 2003.
• Fellow of American Physical Society, 2005.
• The Fritz London Memorial Prize, 2005.
• Pagels Lecturer, Aspen Center for Physics, USA, 2008.
• 27th Solvay Conference Public Lecturer, Brussels, Belgium, 2008.
• M. Loeb Lecturer, Harvard University, 2008.
• Einstein Lecturer, Weizmann Institute, Israel, 2009.
• H. Kamerlingh-Onnes Prize, 2009

Publications

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• Theses