Efthimios Kaxiras | |
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| Επίτιμος Καθηγητής | |
| Alma mater | |
| Known for | Twistronics |
| Scientific career | |
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| Institutions | |
| Thesis | Ab Initio theory of polar surfaces of binary compound semiconductors (1987) |
| Doctoral advisor | John Joannopoulos |
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| Website | efthimioskaxiras |
Efthimios "Tim" Kaxiras [a] is a Greek-American condensed matter physicist and materials scientist, who is John Hasbrouck Van Vleck Professor of Pure and Applied Physics at Harvard University. Known for his work in computational materials science, he and his research group have introduced the term "twistronics." [1] [2]
Briefly studying electrical engineering at National Technical University of Athens, Kaxiras received his bachelor's degree in physics from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1981. [3] [4] He completed his doctoral studies in physics at MIT in 1987 under the supervision of John Joannopoulos. [5] Working at IBM Research and United States Naval Research Laboratory, he became a faculty member at Harvard University in 1991. In addition to his tenure at Harvard University, he held appointments in École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne and University of Ioannina. [4]
Kaxiras is a Fellow of the Institute of Physics, and a member of Materials Research Society and American Chemical Society. [4] In 2003, he became a fellow of American Physical Society for his "contributions to understanding the properties of materials, through simulations and the development of new first-principles, empirical and multiscale computational methods." [6]