CURRICULUM VITAE

Steven G. Louie

Professor of Physics, University of California at Berkeley, and Senior Faculty Scientist, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

Biographical Sketch

Professor Louie received his B.A. degree in physics and mathematics in 1972 and his Ph.D. in physics in 1976, both from the University of California at Berkeley. He was a postdoctoral fellow at the IBM Watson Research Center in 1977-79, a visiting member of the technical staff at the AT&T Bell Laboratories in 1979, and Assistant Professor of Physics at the University of Pennsylvania in 1979-80. He returned to UC Berkeley as Associate Professor in 1980 and has been Professor of Physics since 1984. He is concurrently a Senior Faculty Scientist in the Materials Sciences Division of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL).

Awards and Honors

Professor Louie is a fellow of the American Physical Society (1985), member of the National Academy of Sciences (2005), and fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (2006). He received a NSF Postdoctoral Fellowship (1977), a Sloan Fellowship (1980), a Guggenheim Fellowship (1989), and two Miller Research Professorships (1986 and 1995). He was Eminent Visiting Scholar, University of Tokyo, Japan (1989); Municipal Chair Professor, J. Fourier University, France (1990); Distinguished Visiting Chair Professor, National Taiwan University, Taiwan (2005). He was awarded the U.S. Department of Energy Award for Sustained Outstanding Research in Solid State Physics (1993), the LBNL Outstanding Performance Award (1995), the Aneesur Rahman Prize for Computational Physics of the American Physical Society (1996), the Davisson-Germer Prize in Surface Physics of the American Physical Society (1999), the Foresight Institute Richard P. Feynman Prize in Nanotechnology (2003), the Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association's Outstanding Overseas Chinese Award (2005), the Closs Lecturer of the University of Chicago (2006), Distinguished Research Chair Professor, National Taiwan University, Taiwan (2007- ), Mork Family Distinguished Lecturer of the University of Southern California (2008). He is identified by the ISI as one of the most highly cited researchers in the field of physics and one of the 25 most highly cited authors in nanoscience.

Principal Research Interests

Professor Louie's research interests are in theoretical condensed matter physics and nanoscience covering the areas of: electronic and structural properties of crystals, surfaces, interfaces and clusters; quasiparticle and optical excitations in solids; electron correlation effects in bulk and reduced-dimensional systems; nanotubes and nanostructures; superconductivity; ab initio pseudopotential theory; electron transport through single molecules. He has published over 430 papers, co-edited 3 monographs, and has been awarded 6 U.S. patents. (Over 22,700 ISI citations and an h-index of 78. Please see separate publications list.)

Service and Other Scientific Activities

Professor Louie is an editor of Solid State Communications, theory director of the Molecular Foundry (a U.S. Department of Energy national nanoscience center), and has served on numerous national/international committees, boards, and panels. Recent activities include: Director, 2000 Spring College on Electronic Structure Theory at ICTP, Italy; Executive Committee of APS Div. of Computational Physics, 2001-04; Chair, Scientific Advisory Committee to Physics Div. of National Center for Theoretical Sciences of Taiwan, 2002-06; Chair, 14th Workshop on Electronic Structure Methods, 2002; U.S. DoE Basic Energy Sciences Advisory Committee - Committee of Visitors, 2003; Inter. Advisory Committee of 27th Inter. Conf. on the Physics of Semiconductors, 2004; Co-Chair, NSF/EC Workshop on Methods in Computational Materials Science, 2004; Executive Committee of APS Div. of Materials Physics, 2005-2008; 2005 Selection Committee for the APS David Adler Lectureship Award; Inter. Academic Advisory Committee, Hefei National Lab, China, 2005-2009; Inter. Advisory Board, Inter. Conf. on the Science and Application of Nanotubes, 2005-06; External Evaluation Committee, Instit. for Solid State Physics, University of Tokyo, 2005; Executive Committee, NSF Center of Integrated Nanomechanical Systems, UC Berkeley, 2005-; Staff Committee, Materials Sciences Division, LBNL, 2005-; Program Committee, 29th Inter. Conf. on the Physics of Semiconductors, 2006-08; Class Membership Committee, National Academy of Sciences, 2006-; Chair, U.S.-Taiwan Joint Workshop on Frontiers of Nanoscience, 2006; Advisory Committee of the Instit. of Atomic and Molecular Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taiwan, 2007-2010; Visiting Committee, Instit. of High Performance Computing, Singapore, 2008; Search Committee, Materials Sciences Division Director, LBNL, 2008; among others.