Steven G. Louie#

• 2023 - present Distinguished Professor of the Graduate School, University of California at Berkeley
• 1993 - present Senior Faculty Scientist, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
• 2016 - present Founding Director, Center for Computational Study of Excited-State Phenomena in Energy Materials (C2SEPEM), Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
• 1998 - 2023 Distinguished Professor of Physics, University of California at Berkeley
• 2001 - 2011 Founding Scientific Director, Theory Facility, the Molecular Foundry
• 1984 - 1998 Professor of Physics, University of California at Berkeley
• 1981 - 1993 Faculty Scientist, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
• 1980 - 1984 Associate Professor of Physics, University of California at Berkeley
• 1979 - 1980 Assistant Professor of Physics, University of Pennsylvania
• 1979 Visiting Scientist, AT&T Bell Laboratories at Murray Hill
• 1977 - 1979 Postdoctoral Fellow, I.B.M. Watson Research Center

• Ab initio methods for quantum many-body effects
• High-performance computing
• Correlated and topological phases of materials
• One- and two-dimensional materials
• Field-driven time-dependent & nonequilibrium phenomena
• Nanoscience
• Electronic structure theory
• Theoretical condensed matter physics
• First-principles studies of ground- and excited-state properties

• 2025 Fellow, European Academy of Sciences
• 2025 Mildred Dresselhaus Prize in Nanoscience and Nanomaterials, American Physical Society
• 2024 Berkeley Citation, University of California at Berkeley
• 2023 Chhabra-Landau Distinguished Lecturer, University of Georgia
• 2022 Eugene Feenberg Memorial Lecturer, Washington University in St. Louis
• 2021 Foreign Academician, Chinese Academy of Sciences
• 2020 Benjamin Lee Professor Award, Asia Pacific Center for Theoretical Physics (APCTP)
• 2019 Fellow, Materials Research Society
• 2018 Gail & Jeffrey Kodosky Lecturer, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
• 2017 H.C. Ørsted Lecturer, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark
• 2017 Jubilee Professorship, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
• 2015 Materials Theory Award, Materials Research Society (MRS)
• 2012 Inaugural Simons Fellow in Theoretical Physics, Simons Foundation
• 2009 Member, American Academy of Arts & Sciences
• 2008 Academician, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
• 2008 Mork Family Distinguished Lecturer, University of Southern California
• 2007 Distinguished Research Chair Professor, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
• 2007 Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science
• 2006 Closs Lecturer, University of Chicago
• 2005 Member, U.S. National Academy of Sciences
• 2003 Richard P. Feynman Prize in Nanotechnology (Theory), Foresight Institute
• 1999 Davisson-Germer Prize in Surface Physics, American Physical Society
• 1996 Aneesur Rahman Prize for Computational Physics, American Physical Society
• 1993 Sustained Outstanding Research in Solid State Physics Award, U.S. Dept of Energy
• 1990 Municipal Chair Professor, Joseph Fourier University, France
• 1989 John S. Guggenheim Foundation Fellow
• 1989 Eminent Visiting Scholar, University of Tokyo
• 1986 & 1995 Professor, Miller Institute for Basic Research in Science
• 1985 Fellow, American Physical Society
• 1980 Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellow

Curriculum Vitae

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