Steven G. Louie

LBNL Faculty Senior Scientist
Professor of Physics
University of California, Berkeley

sglouie@berkeley.edu
phone: 510-642-1709
fax: 510-643-9473


Education
B.A. Physics and Mathematics, University of California, Berkeley
Ph.D Physics, University of California, Berkeley
Postdoctoral Fellow, IBM Watson Research Center



Major Awards
2008 Election to Academia Sinica, Republic of China (Taiwan)
2006 Fellow of the National Association for the Advancement of Science
2005 Election to the National Academy of Sciences
2003 Foresight Institute Feynman Prize in Nanotechnology
1999 Davisson-Germer Prize of the American Physical Society
1996 Aneesur Rahman Prize of the American Physical Society
1993 DOE Award for Sustained Outstanding Research
1989 Guggenheim Fellow
1985 Fellow of the American Physical Society
1980 Sloan Fellow



General Reseach 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 and nanostructures; electron correlation effects in bulk and reduced-dimensional systems; carbon and BN nanotubes; graphene and related nanostructures; superconductivity; ab initio pseudopotential theory; electron transport through single molecules and other nanosystems. The objective is to explain and predict the properties of materials using first-principles theories and computation.

MSD Research Projects
Molecular Foundry: Theory of Nanostructured Materials Facility Program
Quantum Theory
Characterization of Functional Nanomachines
Novel sp2-bonded Materials and Related Nanostructures
Synergistic Approach to New Classes of Hydrogen Storage Materials

Personal website: http://civet.berkeley.edu/louie/