LEADERSHIP | AFFILIATED FACULTY | EMERITI | VISITING SCHOLARS | GROUP REPRESENTATIVES | FELLOWS
At ENSI’s helm are director Peidong Yang, and co-director Michael Crommie, each bringing his own achievements and expertise.
Peidong Yang is the director for the Kavli Energy Nanoscience Institute. He is a Professor of Chemistry and the S. K. and Angela Chan Distinguished Chair Professor in Energy at the University of California, Berkeley. He is also a senior faculty scientist in the Materials and Chemical Sciences Division at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. He is a member of both the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is also the director of the California Research Alliance by BASF. His main research interest is in the area of one dimensional semiconductor nanostructures, and he is the most cited researcher in the world in the field of materials science. His group at Berkeley is doing revolutionary research in the use of nanowires in artificial photosynthesis and solar cells.
Michael Crommie is a professor in the Department of Physics at UC Berkeley and a faculty senior scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. He received a B.S. degree in physics from UCLA in 1984 and his Ph.D. from UC Berkeley in 1991. He was a postdoc at IBM Almaden for two years before becoming an Assistant Professor in the Physics Dept. at Boston University in 1994. He moved his laboratory to the UC Berkeley Physics Dept. in 6/99 and joined the Berkeley faculty as an Associate Professor. Awards and honors include a National Science Foundation Young Investigator Award (1994), the AAAS Newcomb Cleveland Prize for 1993-94, and a Sloan Foundation Fellowship (1997).
