Swanlund Professor of Physics
Center for Advanced Study Professor of Physics
Department of Physics
1110 West Green Street
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Urbana, IL 61801-3080
Phone: (217) 333-7315
Fax: (217) 244-8544
Email: lhgreeneillinois.edu
Web: http://www.physics.uiuc.edu/people/Greene
Laura H. Greene received her BS and MS degrees from The Ohio State
University and in 1984, received a Ph.D. in Physics from Cornell University,
investigating the linear and non-linear far-infrared properties of
materials. She joined Bell Laboratories and then Bellcore, where she
researched thin-film growth and tunneling of metallic multilayers,
heavy-Fermions, superconductor-semiconductor hybrid structures and
high-temperature superconductors. In 1992, she joined the senior physics
faculty at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Her research continues in experimental condensed matter physics focusing on
highly-correlated electron systems and novel materials; in particular
high-temperature superconductors, and the interfaces between metallic
superconductors and compound-semiconductor heterostructures. Thin film and
multilayer growth with extensive materials analysis is routinely performed.
Planar tunneling spectroscopy, electronic transport, Raman scattering,
electron spin resonance and muon spin relaxation are employed to investigate
mechanisms of superconductivity and charge and transport across
superconducting interfaces. Much of her research investigates the role of
broken symmetries and their physical ramifications in condensed matter
systems, especially that of spontaneously broken-time reversal symmetry in
unconventional superconductors.
Greene has served the American Physical Society as a General Councilor,
member of their Executive Board, member of their Division of Condensed
Matter Physics Nominating Committee and Chair of their Committee on
Committees. She was elected as a delegate to the Low-Temperature Physics
Commission of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics, where she
also serves on their US Liaison Committee. She is a founding member or the
Board of Trustees of the Los Alamos-based Institute for Complex and Adaptive
Materials. In 1999, Greene was elected to member-at-large of the Council of
Gordon Research Conferences and serves on their Schedule and Selection
Committee. In 2000, Greene was elected to the Electorate Nominating
Committee of the Physics Section of the American Association of the
Advancement of Science. Also in 2000, she was appointed by the Secretary of
Energy, Bill Richardson, to the Basic Energy Sciences Advisory Committee (BESAC)
of the Department of Energy. She is a Fellow of the American Physical
Society, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the
American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the National Academy of Sciences.
In 1994, Greene was the recipient of the Maria Goeppert-Mayer Award of the
American Physical Society. In 1999, she received the E. O. Lawrence Award
for Materials Research from the Department of Energy. In 2000, she was named
to the Swanlund Endowed Chair of the University of Illinois. Over her
career, Greene has co-authored approximately 140 publications and has
presented more than 180 invited talks.
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