Ali Javey

Ali Javey is a professor of electrical engineering and computer sciences at the University of California, Berkeley, a senior faculty scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and co-director of the Bay Area Photovoltaic Consortium^[1] and the Berkeley Sensor and Actuator Center.^[2] His research is focused on materials and device innovation for technological applications, particularly photovoltaics, wearable sensors, nanoelectronics, and programmable materials.^[3]

Javey is an Associate Editor for ACS Nano.

Education[edit]

Javey received his BS in chemistry from Old Dominion University in 2001 and his PhD in physical chemistry from Stanford University in 2005. His PhD advisor was Hongjie Dai.^[4] He was a junior fellow of the Harvard Society of Fellows from 2005 to 2006.

Honors and awards[edit]

• Dan Maydan Prize in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (2020)
• Bakar Fellow—UC Berkeley (2016)^[5]
• MRS Outstanding Young Investigator Award (2015)^[6]
• Nano Letters Young Investigator Lectureship (2014)
• UC Berkeley Electrical Engineering Outstanding Teaching Award (2012)
• APEC Science Prize for Innovation, Research and Education (2011)
• Netexplorateur of the Year Award (2011)
• IEEE Nanotechnology Early Career Award (2010)
• Alfred P. Sloan Fellow (2010)
• Mohr Davidow Ventures Innovators Award (2010)
• National Academy of Sciences Award for Initiatives in Research (2009)
• Technology Review TR35 (2009)
• NSF Early CAREER Award (2008)
• U.S. Frontiers of Engineering by National Academy of Engineering (2008)
• Peter Verhofstadt Fellowship from the Semiconductor Research Corporation (2003).

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