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Harold Hwang
Director, Stanford Institute for Materials and Energy Sciences (SIMES), Shadi and Omid Farokhzad Professor in the School of Humanities and Sciences, Professor of Photon Science and Senior Fellow at the Precourt Institute for Energy
Harold Y. Hwang is the Shadi and Omid Farokhzad Professor in the School of Humanities and Sciences, of Applied Physics (Stanford University), of Photon Science (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory), Senior Fellow of the Precourt Institute for Energy, and Director of the Stanford Institute for Materials and Energy Sciences. He received a BS in Physics, BS and MS in Electrical Engineering from MIT (1993), and a PhD in Physics from Princeton University (1997). He was formerly a Member of Technical Staff at Bell Laboratories (1996-2003) and on the faculty at the University of Tokyo (2003-2010). His research is in condensed matter and materials physics, with a focus on correlated electrons and emergent phenomena in quantum materials, and heterostructures for energy applications and devices.
Education
PhD, Princeton University, Physics (1997)
BS,MS, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Electrical Engineering (1993)
BS, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Physics (1993)