Education

Ph.D. Applied Physics, Stanford University (1988).

Positions/Honors/Awards

9/04 – current Jane and Roland Blumberg Professor of Physics, The University of Texas at Austin

9/01 – current Professor of Physics, The University of Texas at Austin

9/96 – 8/01 Associate Professor of Physics, The University of Texas at Austin.

9/92 - 8/94 Trull Centennial Fellow, The University of Texas at Austin.

1/90 - 8/96 Assistant Professor of Physics, The University of Texas at Austin.

5/88 - 12/89 Postdoctoral Research, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY.

6/82 - 4/88 Research Assistant, Stanford Electronics Lab, Stanford University.

Fellow, American Physical Society (2007)

Technical specialties:

Mesoscopic Physics, Solid State Physics, Surface Physics

Scanning Tunneling Microscopy and Spectroscopy

Nanoscale Optical Imaging and Spectroscopy

Professional Organizations

Member, The American Physical Society

Member, The American Vacuum Society

Member, Materials Research Society

Current research interests:

• Structural, electronic and optical properties of semiconductor nanostructures

• Quantum information processing and coherence/decoherence in semiconductor quantum dots

• Quantum engineering of metallic nanostructures

• Collective and quasiparticle properties in nanostructues

• Nanomechanical properties of soft condensed matter systems