David C. Larbalestier is an American scientist who has contributed to research in

superconducting Superconductivity is a set of physical properties observed in certain materials where Electrical resistance and conductance, electrical resistance vanishes and magnetic field, magnetic flux fields are expelled from the material. Any material e ...

materials for

magnet A magnet is a material or object that produces a magnetic field. This magnetic field is invisible but is responsible for the most notable property of a magnet: a force that pulls on other ferromagnetic materials, such as iron, steel, nickel, ...

s and power applications. He is currently a Professor of Mechanical Engineering and a member of the Applied Superconductivity Center at the

National High Magnetic Field Laboratory The National High Magnetic Field Laboratory (MagLab) is a facility at Florida State University, the University of Florida, and Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, that performs magnetic field research in physics, biology, bioengineering ...

Florida State University Florida State University (FSU) is a public research university in Tallahassee, Florida. It is a senior member of the State University System of Florida. Founded in 1851, it is located on the oldest continuous site of higher education in the st ...

, and serves as the Interim Chair of the new Material Science and Engineering Department in the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering. He also holds emeritus status in the Materials Science and Engineering department at the

University of Wisconsin–Madison A university () is an educational institution, institution of higher education, higher (or Tertiary education, tertiary) education and research which awards academic degrees in several Discipline (academia), academic disciplines. Universities ty ...

, which was his academic home until 2006. He was elected a member of the

National Academy of Engineering The National Academy of Engineering (NAE) is an American nonprofit, non-governmental organization. The National Academy of Engineering is part of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, along with the National Academy ...

in 2003 for advancing our understanding of the materials science of high-field superconductors and for developing processing techniques that incorporate this knowledge. He is a fellow of the

Royal Academy of Engineering The Royal Academy of Engineering (RAEng) is the United Kingdom's national academy of engineering. The Academy was founded in June 1976 as the Fellowship of Engineering with support from Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, who became the first senior ...

. His materials research interests include improving superconducting properties of many materials, including NbTi, Nb₃Sn, MgB₂,

YBCO Yttrium barium copper oxide (YBCO) is a family of crystalline chemical compounds that display high-temperature superconductivity; it includes the first material ever discovered to become superconducting above the boiling point of liquid nitrogen ...

, and

BSCCO Bismuth strontium calcium copper oxide (BSCCO, pronounced ''bisko''), is a type of cuprate superconductor having the generalized chemical formula Bi2 Sr2 Ca''n''−1 Cu''n'' O2''n''+4+''x'', with ''n'' = 2 being the most commonly stud ...

Awards and honors

Fellow of the American Physical Society The American Physical Society honors members with the designation ''Fellow'' for having made significant accomplishments to the field of physics. The following lists are divided chronologically by the year of designation. * List of American Physic ...

(1990) *Member,

(2003) *The International Cryogenics Materials Conference Lifetime Achievement Award (2007) * Distinguished Alumnus, Imperial College London (2024)

References

External links

National High Magnetic Field Laboratory Profile

Applied Superconductivity Center

Florida State University

University of Wisconsin–Madison
{{DEFAULTSORT:Larbalestier, David Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Alumni of Imperial College London Fellows of the Institute of Physics Florida State University faculty University of Wisconsin–Madison faculty American materials scientists Members of the United States National Academy of Engineering Fellows of the American Physical Society