Ivan K. Schuller (born 1946 in Romania) is an

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condensed matter experimental physicist. He is best known for his work on superlattices. His interests are focused on thin films, nanostructures, novel materials,

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, and

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. The Romanian-born Schuller received his Licenciado (1970) from the University of Chile, MS degree (1972) and PhD (1976) from Northwestern University. From 1978 to 1987, he was a senior physicist and group leader at

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. Since 1987, he has been a professor of physics at the University of California, San Diego; in addition to this position, he is also Layer Leader-Materials and Devices of CAL-(IT)2 Institute, and director-AFOSR-MURI at UCSD. He held visiting professorships at the

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-Santiago, Chile; Universidad del Valle, Colombia; the Catholic University-Leuven, Belgium, and the

Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen RWTH Aachen University (), also known as North Rhine-Westphalia Technical University of Aachen, Rhine-Westphalia Technical University of Aachen, Technical University of Aachen, University of Aachen, or ''Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hoch ...

, Germany. Schuller is a professor of physics at UC San Diego, and the recipient of numerous prizes, including the David Adler Lectureship (2003), Alexander von Humboldt Award (2000), Wheatley Award (1999), DOE Outstanding Scientific Accomplishments (1987), a Doctor Honoris Causa at Universidad Complutense de Madrid (2005) and the 2015 Lise Meitner Lectureship Award. Schuller is a president of the board of trustees and scientific advisory committee at the

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Nanoscience Institute. Schuller was elected fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2018.

References

Schuller Group website
*Ivan K. Schuller
''"A New Class of Layered Materials"'', Phys. Rev. Lett. 44, ).
21st-century American physicists University of Chile alumni Northwestern University alumni University of California, San Diego faculty 1946 births Living people {{US-physicist-stub