Prof. Alex Zunger of the University of Colorado, Boulder research field is Condensed Matter Theory of Real Materials, involving foundational work on Density Functional Theory, Pseudopotential theory, Quantum Nanostructures,听Photovoltaic听materials and Materials by Design.听 He is the recipient of the year 2018听Boer Medal听for photovoltaic research, the 2013听Hume- Rothery Award听on Theory of alloys, the 2011 (inaugural)听听鈥淢aterials Theory Award鈥澨齩f the Materials Research Society on Inverse Design, the 2010 鈥淭omassoni Prize鈥溙�(Italy) and 鈥�2010 Medal of the Schola Physica Romana听鈥� celebrating the tradition of E. Fermi, the听2001听John Bardeen听award of The Material Society听on 鈥淪pontaneous Ordering in semiconductor alloys鈥�, the听2001听Rahman Award听of the American Physical听Society听on 鈥榝oundational development of First Principles methods鈥�, and the 2009Gutenberg听Award听(Germany) on correlated electron systems. 听He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society; Fellow of the Materials Research Society, Sakler Fellow of the Institute of advanced studies of Tel Aviv University.听He received his Ph.D. from Tel-Aviv University, Tel Aviv Israel where he worked with Prof. Joshua Jortner and Binyamin Englman on quantum theory of molecular solids.听 He did his postdoctoral research at the Physics Dept. of Northwestern University (with Art Freeman). He then received the听IBM Fellowship, which he spent at the Physics Dept. of U.C. Berkeley (with Marvin Cohen).听 Dr. Zunger established the Solid-State Theory group at the听National听Renewable Energy听Laboratory (NREL) Golden, Colorado, a position he held 1978-2010 where he has been an听鈥淚nstitute Research Fellow鈥�. He has been the founding Director of the $20 million 鈥楥enter for Inverse Design鈥� (a DOE Energy Frontier Research Center). He moved to 精品SM在线影片 in 2010 where he continued as Chief Scientist of the NREL EFRC for 3 years. The impact of Dr. Zunger鈥檚 work is partially reflected by the high number of citations his papers have received (over 95,000, according to Google Scholar) and by his 鈥渉-number鈥� of 140 (i.e., 140 of his papers were cited each at least 140 times).听 He is the听author听of the fifth-most-cited paper in the 110-year history of Physical Review (out of over 350,000 articles published in that journal) .In the course of his research; he has authored more than 600 articles in refereed journals, which includes over 150 articles in Physical Review Letters and Rapid Communications (PRB) and three citation classics.听 He has also trained more than 82 post-doctoral fellows. Declared by the Institute of Scientific Information (ISI) as the 39th most-cited physicist out of more than 500,000 physicists examined, based on publications in 1981鈥�1997 in all branches of physics.听Nominator and consultant for the Physics Nobel Committee in past 5 years.
