• Physics of nanostructured materials.
• Local magnetic probes
• Experimental Condensed Matter
• Superconductivity
• Microscopy and Imaging

Career History

• R.H. Dicke Postdoctoral Fellow, Princeton University, 1995-98.
• Visiting Scientist, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, 1995.
• B.S. 1988, Ph.D. 1995, Stanford University.
• Assistant Professor of Applied Physics, Stanford, 1998-2002
• Associate Professor (with tenure) of Applied Physics, Stanford 2002-present
• joint with Physics 2004-present
  

Honors

• Eastman Kodak Scholar, 1986-88
• NSF Fellow, 1989-92
• The Carrington Award, 1988
• Stanford Centennial Teaching Assistant, 1990
• Kirkpatrick Teaching Award, 1992 at Stanford University
• R.H. Dicke Postdoctoral Fellowship, Princeton 1995-1998
• Frederick E. Terman Fellowship 1998-2001
• Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship 1999-2001
• NSF CAREER Award 1999-2003
• William L. McMillan Award for “outstanding contributions in condensed matter physics” 1999
• Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers 2000-2005
• Packard Fellowship 2001-present
• Canadian Institute for Advanced Research Foreign Associate 2000-present
• Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) Stanford Student Chapter Professorial Award (for Teaching) 2004
• Leigh Paige Prize Lecturer at Yale 2004

Research Group

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