Pierre Wiltzius Ph.D.

Position Department / Business Unit
Director Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology
Institution Disciplines
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Fabrication Nanoparticles
City State / Provence
Illinois
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Dr. Wiltzius' fields of professional interest are soft-condensed matter, colloidal self-assembly, photonic crystals and microphotonics.

He was at Bell Laboratories (Lucent Technologies, formerly AT&T) between 1984 and 2001, where he was most recently the Director of Semiconductor Physics Research. He was appointed Director of the Beckman Institute in September 2001; a professor in both the Departments of Materials Science and Engineering, and Physics; and a full-time Beckman Institute faculty member in the Nanoelectronics and Biophotonics group.

Education

Pierre Wiltzius received his Ph.D. in physics from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETHZ), Zurich, Switzerland in 1981.

Awards

Fellow of: American Physical Society; Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science; Senior Member of the IEEE; R&D100 Innovation Award from R&D Magazine (2001); Industrial Visitor of the James Franck Institute at the University of Chicago (1994); Distinguished Member of Technical Staff, Bell Laboratories (1991); Robert Mehrabian Distinguished Lecturer at U.C.S.B. (1987); NATO Fellowship (1983).

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