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Jeffrey B. Neaton received his Ph.D. in Physics from Cornell University in 2000. He completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Rutgers University and subsequently worked as a postdoctoral staff scientist at the Molecular Foundry, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. In 2014, he joined the faculty at UC Berkeley and currently serves as the Director of the Molecular Foundry and is a Senior Faculty Scientist at the Department of Energy Nanoscale Science Research Center. Neaton has been recognized with several awards, including the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Outstanding Achievement Award in 2007 and the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers in 2009. He is a fellow of the American Physical Society and serves as the Division Associate Editor for Physical Review Letters. His research focuses on the development and application of ab initio analytical methods to understand complex correlated condensed phases in both organic and inorganic solids, nanostructures, and interfaces, as well as electronic excited state phenomena and low-dimensional transport behaviors, particularly in single-molecule junctions. His work has significant implications for renewable energy and the design of novel materials.
University of California, Berkeley • Berkeley, CA
Joined the faculty focusing on condensed matter physics and materials science.
The Mathematics Subject GRE is required for the Fall 2026 admissions cycle. General GRE is optional.