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Biography
Ali Javey is a professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of California, Berkeley, a faculty scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and co-director of the Bay Area Photovoltaic Consortium and the Berkeley Sensor and Actuator Center. His research is focused on materials innovation for technological applications, particularly photovoltaics, electronic skin, nanoelectronics, and programmable materials. His publications have over 24,000 citations and his h-index is 69. He is one of the 300 most cited researchers in materials science and engineering, based on citation data from the Elsevier Scopus database.
Javey is an Associate Editor for ACS Nano, on the Editorial Boards of Nano Research and Scientific Reports, and on the Advisory Board of NPG Asia Materials.
Education
Javey received his in BS in Chemistry from Old Dominion University in 2001 and his PhD in Physical Chemistry from Stanford University in 2005.
Honors and awards
- Bakar Fellow - UC Berkeley (2016)
- MRS Outstanding Young Investigator Award (2015)
- Nano Letters Young Investigator Lectureship (2014)
- UC Berkeley Electrical Engineering Outstanding Teaching Award (2012)
- APEC Science Prize for Innovation, Research and Education (2011)
- Netexplorateur of the Year Award (2011)
- IEEE Nanotechnology Early Career Award (2010)
- Alfred P. Sloan Fellow (2010)
- Mohr Davidow Ventures Innovators Award (2010)
- National Academy of Sciences Award for Initiatives in Research (2009)
- Technology Review TR35 (2009)
- NSF Early CAREER Award (2008)
- U.S. Frontiers of Engineering by National Academy of Engineering (2008)
- Peter Verhofstadt Fellowship from the Semiconductor Research Corporation (2003).