Fred Kavli Chair in NanoSystems Sciences
Professor of Chemistry & Biochemistry
California NanoSystems Institute Director
570 Westwood Plaza
Building 114
University of California, Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA 90095
USA
psw @ cnsi.ucla.edu
+1 (310) 267-5993
+1 (310) 267-4918 fax
+1 (310) 267-4838 CNSI staff and assistants
Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and Physics
104 Davey Laboratory
The Pennsylvania State University
University Park, PA 16802-6300
USA
Born: 10 October 1959.
Married. Three sons.
S.B. and S.M. in Chemistry from MIT, 1980. Research in
high resolution laser spectroscopy with Bob Field.
Ph.D. in Chemistry
from the University of California at Berkeley,
1986. Research in excited atom reactions in crossed molecular
beams with Yuan T. Lee.
Post-doctoral Member of Technical Staff at AT&T Bell Laboratories,
1986-1988. Research in the effects of surface chemistry and gas-surface
collisions on semiconductor surface electronic properties with
Mark Cardillo.
Visiting Scientist at IBM Almaden Research Center,
1988-1989. Research developing and using low temperature scanning
tunneling microscopy with Don Eigler.
Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, The Pennsylvania State University,
1989-1995.
Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry,
The Pennsylvania State University,
1995-2001.
Professor, Department of Chemistry,
The Pennsylvania State University,
2001-.
Professor, Departments of Chemistry and Physics,
The Pennsylvania State University,
2002-.
Distinguished Professor, Departments of Chemistry and Physics,
The Pennsylvania State University,
2005-.
Visiting Professor, Department of Molecular Biotechnology,
The University of Washington,
1996-1998.
Visiting Professor, Venture Business Laboratory,
Department of Electronic Science and Engineering,
Kyoto University, 1998.
Director, Center for Molecular Nanofabrication and Devices,
The Pennsylvania State University,
2001-2002.
Associate Director, Center for Nanoscale Science,
The Pennsylvania State University,
2002-2005.
Nanofabrication Fellow, The Pennsylvania State University, 2005-.
Professor of Chemistry & Biochemistry, UCLA, 2009-
Fred Kavli Chair in NanoSystems Sciences, UCLA, 2009-
California NanoSystems Institute Director, UCLA, 2009-
American Association for the Advancement of Science, fellow.
American Chemical Society. Central Pennsylvania Section.
American Physical Society, fellow.
American Vacuum Society, fellow.
IEEE, Senior Member (2009).
Materials Research Society.
Phi Lambda Upsilon. President of MIT Chapter, 1978-79.
Sigma Xi.
MIT Undergraduate Award in Chemistry (1980).
Earl C. Anthony Fellow (1980-1981).
National Science Foundation Presidential Young Investigator (1991-1996).
Scanning Microscopy International Presidential Scholarship (1994).
B. F. Goodrich Collegiate Inventors Award (1994).
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellowship (1995-1997).
American Chemical Society Nobel Laureate Signature Award for Graduate
Education in Chemistry (1996).
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship (1997-1998).
National Science Foundation Creativity Award (1997-1999).
American Association for the Advancement of Science, Fellow (2000).
American Physical Society, Fellow (2002).
Schreyer Honors College Excellence in Honors Teaching Award (2004).
Named Nanofabrication Fellow (2005).
Named Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and Physics (2005).
University of Arizona, Eminent Scholar Lecture (2006).
University of Pittsburgh, Department of Chemistry, Levine Lecturer (2007).
Alpha Chi Sigma Outstanding Professor Award (2007).
American Vacuum Society, Fellow (2007).
University of Oklahoma, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, J. Clarence Karcher Lecture (2008).
Texas A&M University, Department of Chemistry Frontiers Lectures (2008).
IEEE, Senior Member (2009).
Association of American Publishers, Professional Scholarly Publishing PROSE Award for 2008, Best New Journal in Science, Technology, and Medicine (2009).
Prof. J. W. McBain Memorial Lecture, National Chemical Laboratory, Pune, India (2009).
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Institute of Advanced Study Distinguised Lecture (2010).
Thomas Jefferson University, William Potter Lecture (2010).
See also the awards my students and post-docs have won.
International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry, ChemRAWN Committee (Chemistry Research Applied to World Needs), US Observer, Lisbon, Portugal, 1993; Guildford, UK, 1995.
STM '95, Eighth International Conference on Scanning Tunneling Microscopy, Program Committee, 1994-1995.
Physical Electronics Conference Executive Committee, 1995-1999. Local co-chair for 1998 Physical Electronics Conference.
Defense Science Study Group V, 1996-1997.
Penn State Center for Materials Physics, renamed Center for Nanoscale Science, Executive Committee, 1997-.
STM '99, Tenth International Conference on Scanning Tunneling Microscopy, Program Committee, 1998-1999.
International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry, U. S. National Committee, 2000-2005.
American Vacuum Society, Nanoscience and Technology Division, Executive Committee, 2001-2004.
Review of Scientific Instruments, Editorial Board, 2002-05.
Foundations of Nanoscience, Technical Co-Chair, 2006-.
IEEE Electron Device Letters, Senior Editor, 2005-2007.
International Conference on Molecular Electronics, Chair, 2007.
ACS Nano, Editor-in-Chief, 2007-.
American Chemical Society Spring 2009 National Meeting, Thematic and Program Chair, 2009.
Chemistry 12: General Chemistry
Chemistry 13: General Chemistry
Chemistry 13H: Honors General Chemistry. (See Chemistry 112H) | Spring 2007 Class | Spring 2006 Class | Spring 2005 Class | Spring 2004 Class | Spring 2003 Class | Spring 2002 Class | Spring 2001 Class | Spring 2000 Class | Spring 1999 Class | Spring 1998 Class | Spring 1996 Class
Chemistry 16: Careers in Chemistry. Fall 1999 Class
Chemistry 112H: Honors General Chemistry. Spring 2009 Class | Spring 2008 Class | Spring 2009 Class
Chemistry 429: Analytical Spectroscopy (lecture and lab)
Chemistry 448: Surface Chemistry. Fall 2001 Class
| Fall 2000 Class
| Fall 1999 Class
| Fall 1998 Class | Fall 1997 Class
Chemistry 526: Spectroscopy (graduate)
Chemistry 597A: Nanoscience. A new class created and taught with Prof. Mary Beth Williams. Fall 2002 Class
Computer Science & Engineering 597D/Physics 597D: Biologically-Inspired Computation. A new class created and taught with Vijay Narayanan, Anne Andrews, Will Hancock, and others. Fall 2007 Class | Fall 2006 Class
(My favorite classes to teach are the freshman general chemistry courses.)
Learn about our research in atomic-scale surface chemistry and physics, molecular devices, nanolithography, biophysics, and neuroscience.
Meet our excellent research group
of dynamic young scientists, and see the awards they have won.
Look over our research publications (or look over my publications from before coming to Penn State).
See a list of upcoming talks
where you can catch Weiss group members live.
Have a look at recent news articles on our group.
Here is my philosophy in how we run our group.
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31 January 2010
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