Dr. Steven Louie

Biography

Steven G. Louie received his Ph.D. in physics from the University of California, Berkeley in 1976. He has held positions at IBM Watson Research Center, Bell Laboratories, and the University of Pennsylvania before joining the faculty at UC Berkeley in 1980. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences since 2005 and a Fellow of the American Physical Society since 1985. Louie has served as a senior faculty scientist and Theory Facility Director at the Molecular Foundry at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and has held editorial positions at the journal Solid State Communications. Throughout his career, he has been awarded the Sloan Fellowship in 1980, the Guggenheim Fellowship in 1989, and multiple Miller Professorships. He received the U.S. Department of Energy Award for Sustained Outstanding Research in Solid State Physics in 1993, the Outstanding Performance Award from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in 1995, the Aneesur Rahman Prize in Computational Physics in 1996, and the Davisson-Germer Prize in Surface Physics in 1999. Additionally, he shared the M. L. Cohen Foresight Institute Richard P. Feynman Prize in Nanotechnology in 2003. Louie's research interests include theoretical condensed matter physics, nanoscience, and electronic structural properties of crystals, surfaces, interfaces, and clusters, with an emphasis on the electron correlation effects in materials.

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