Educational Background
- 1977 Ph. D. The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio --- Expt
Condensed Matter Physics (Jim Garland)
- 1974 M. S. The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio --- Physics
- 1972 B. S. The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio --- Physics
Academic Record
- 2006- Head Department of Physics, University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign
- 2005 Professor Center for Advanced Study, UIUC
- 2003- Member National Academy of Sciences
- 2003- Chair Professor Donald Biggar Willett Professor of
Engineering, UIUC
- 2001-02 Visiting Professor Department of Physics, University of
California at Berkeley
- 2000- Principal Investigator Microelectronics Laboratory, University
of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- 1994- Professor Department of Physics, University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign
- 1988-2000 Principal Investigator NSF Science and Technology Center
for Superconductivity
- 1988-94 Associate Professor Department of Physics, University of
Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- 1981- Principal Investigator Materials Research Laboratory,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- 1981-88 Assistant Professor Department of Physics, University of
Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- 1978-81 Postdoctoral Scientist Department of Physics, University of
California, Berkeley (John Clarke)
- 1977-78 Postdoctoral Fellow Cavendish Laboratory, University of
Cambridge, England (John Waldram)
Honors & Awards
- 2006 Tau Beta Pi Daniel C. Drucker Eminent Faculty Award, College of
Engineering, UIUC
- 2005 Appointed Professor, Center for Advanced Study, UIUC
- 2003 Elected Member, National Academy of Sciences
- 2003 Appointed, Willett Professor of Engineering, University of
Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- 2001-02 John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship
- 2001-02 Miller Visiting Professorship, University of California at
Berkeley
- 1999 Elected Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- 1998 University Scholar, University of Illinois
- 1998 Oliver E. Buckley Prize, American Physical Society
- 1995 Fellow, American Physical Society
Research Interests & Expertise
Low temperature physics, Microfabrication/ Nanofabrication,
Superconducting materials physics, Mesoscopic/ Nanoscale physics,
Superconductor device physics, Phase coherence/Vortex dynamics,
Unconventional superconductivity, Strongly-correlated electronic systems,
Non-equilibrium superconductivity, Scanning Tunneling and SQUID Microscopy,
Macroscopic Quantum Phenomena, Quantum Information Processing/Quantum
Computing,
Solid state entanglement, Topological superconductors.
