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Outstanding Young Investigator

Wednesday, April 7
5:05 pm
Moscone West, Room 2020 

The Outstanding Young Investigator Award has been established to recognize outstanding interdisciplinary materials research by a young scientist or engineer.

Mark C. Hersam Northwestern University “for pioneering research on the physics, chemistry, and engineering of nanoelectronic materials and devices, including solution-phase techniques for sorting carbon nanotubes and graphene, and for organic functionalization and nanopatterning of semiconductor surfaces." Talk Presentation: Chemically Enhanced Carbon-Based Nanoelectronic Materials and Devices

Mark C. Hersam, currently a professor of materials science and engineering and chemistry at Northwestern University, earned a BS in electrical engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) in 1996, and a M.Phil. in physics from the University of Cambridge in 1997. In 1999, he received an IBM Distinguished Fellowship to perform research at the IBM T. J. Watson Research Laboratory. He earned his PhD in electrical engineering from UIUC in 2000.  In recognition of his early career accomplishments, Hersam was directly promoted from assistant professor to full professor with tenure in 2006.

As a faculty member, Hersam has received numerous awards, including the Beckman Young Investigator Award, NSF CAREER Award, ARO Young Investigator Award, ONR Young Investigator Award, Sloan Research Fellowship, Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, TMS Robert Lansing Hardy Award, AVS Peter Mark Award, SES Research Young Investigator Award, as well as three Teacher of the Year Awards.

His research interests include single-molecule chemistry, nanofabrication, scanning probe microscopy, semiconductor surfaces, and carbon nanomaterials. In 2007, Hersam co-founded NanoIntegris, a start-up company focusing on supplying high-performance carbon nanomaterials.