John Joannopoulos

John D. Joannopoulos (born 1947) is an American physicist, focused in condensed matter theory, currently the Francis Wright Davis Professor of Physics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and is an Elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and American Physical Society (APS).

Joannopoulos was born in New York City. In 2015, the APS awarded him the Aneesur Rahman Prize for Computational Physics, a significant award.

Joannopoulos is also the director of the Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies. He first gained that position in 2006.

Joannopoulos has been on the MIT faculty since 1974. He holds his BA and PhD from the University of California, Berkeley, the latter received in 1974.