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

mlcohen@physics.berkeley.edu
phone: 510-642-4753

Education
B.A., Physics, University of California, Berkeley
Ph.D, Physics, University of Chicago
Postdoctoral Fellow, Bell Laboratories

Major Awards
2007  Technology Pioneer Award, Word Economic Forum
2005  Doctorat Honoris Causa, University of Montreal
2003  Feynman Prize in Nanotechnology
2003  Election to the American Philosophical Society
2001  National Medal of Science
1997  Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
1995  LBNL Outstanding Performance Award
1994  Lillienfeld Prize of the American Physical Society
1993  Election to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
1991  LBNL Certificate of Merit
1990  DOE Award for Sustained Outstanding Research
1980  Election to the National Academy of Sciences
1981  DOE Award for Outstanding Accomplishments
1979  Buckley Prize of the American Physical Society
1978  Guggenheim Fellow
1969  Fellow of the American Physical Society
1965  Sloan Fellow

General Research Interests
Our primary goal is to understand and predict materials properties at the most fundamental level using atomistic first principles (or "ab initio") quantum-mechanical calculations. A variety of different computational approaches are used that require only the atomic number and positions as input. These first principles methods have, in the past, resulted in excellent quantitative agreement with experiment and have predicted with good accuracy materials properties that were later verified experimentally.
Our research covers a broad range of materials systems and phenomena.

MSD Research Projects:

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://tiger.berkeley.edu/