Physics
Professor
The thin film group is involved in research in a variety of condensed matter physics problems, developing and studying the structure and properties of novel materials.
Bio
Ivan K. Schuller received his Licenciado (1970) from the University of Chile, his M.S. degree (1972), and his Ph.D. (1976) from Northwestern University. From 1978-1987 he was a Senior Physicist and Group Leader at Argonne National Laboratory. Since 1987 he has been a Professor of Physics at the University of California, San Diego, and in addition to this position, presently is Layer Leader-Materials and Devices of Calit2 Institute, and Director-AFOSR-MURI on Integrated Nanosensors at UCSD. He held visiting professorships at the Catholic University and the University of Santiago - Santiago, Chile; Universidad del Valle-Cali, Colombia; the Catholic University - Leuven, Belgium and the Rheinisch Westfaelische Technische Hochschule-Aachen, Germany.
He has received awards and prizes in High-Temperature Superconductivity-DOE Outstanding Scientific Accomplishment 1987, International Activities-APS Wheatley Award 1999, Metallic Superlattices and Heterostructures- Alexander von Humboldt Prize 2000, APS Adler Award 2003, Exchange Bias-MRS Medal 2003, Civic Service- Citizenship Council of Chicago1980. Other general honors and awards include Chilean Academy of Sciences - 1992; Corresponding Fellow, Belgian Academy of Sciences - 1998; ISI Highly Cited Researchers - 2000. Current scientific interests include the preparation, characterization, and study of Metallic Superlattices, Heterostructures, and Nanostructures. His studies are dedicated to understanding the connection between structure and physical properties; principally electrical transport, magnetism, superconductivity, and mechanical properties. Prof. Schuller has also dedicated considerable effort to popularizing physics through public lectures and educational TV.