The IEEE Nanotechnology Council Awards Committee has announced its 2015 award winners for the IEEE Nanotechnology Pioneer Award, and the IEEE NTC Early Career Award. These awards will be presented at IEEE NANO 2015 in Rome, Italy July 29.
Pioneer Award
Professor Chennupati Jagadish
Distinguished Professor and Head of Semiconductor Optoelectronics and Nanotechnology Group
The Australian National University
Canberra, Australia
chennupati.jagadish@anu.edu.au
“For pioneering and sustained contributions to compound semiconductor nanowire and quantum dot optoelectronics.”
Professor Jagadish has established a world-class research program on compound semiconductor optoelectronics and nanotechnology. Key among his accomplishments are a number of major advances in compound semiconductor quantum dot and nanowire growth techniques and optoelectronics devices. Professor Jagadish has received many awards for his work, and in 2005 he was inducted as a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science.
Early Career Award
Professor Deji Akinwande
Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Texas at Austin
deji@ece.utexas.edu
“For pioneering contributions towards the understanding and development of wafer-scale graphene and flexible nanoelectronics based on two-dimensional sheets.”
Professor Akinwande has gained worldwide recognition for his research and inventions in 2D materials growth and flexible electronic device fabrication. Among Professor Akinwande’s awards are an NSF Career Award, an Alfred P. Sloan Scholarship and the 2012 IEEE NANO Geim and Novoselov Graphene Prize.
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