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Ivan K. Schuller (born 1946 in Romania) is an American condensed matter experimental physicist. He is born 1946 in Cluj, Northern Transylvania, which belonged to Hungary until 1947. [1] He is best known for his work on superlattices. His interests are focused on thin films, nanostructures, novel materials, magnetism, and superconductivity.
The Romanian-born Schuller received his Licenciado (1970) from the University of Chile, MS degree (1972) and PhD (1976) from Northwestern University. From 1978 to 1987, he was a senior physicist and group leader at Argonne National Laboratory. Since 1987, he has been a professor of physics at the University of California, San Diego; in addition to this position, he is also Layer Leader-Materials and Devices of CAL-(IT)2 Institute, and director-AFOSR-MURI at UCSD. He held visiting professorships at the Catholic University - Santiago, Chile; Universidad del Valle, Colombia; the Catholic University-Leuven, Belgium, the Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen, Germany, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, and University of Paris.
Schuller is a professor of physics at UC San Diego, and the recipient of numerous honors, including Chair for the UCSD Center for Memory and Recording Research (2019), Fellow of the United States Academy of Arts and Sciences (2018), DOD Award - Vannevar Bush Faculty Fellowship (2015), Lise Meitner Prize, (2015), Distinguished Lecturer – IEEE Society (2015), NanoStar Award (2014), Sackler Professor by Special Appointment – Tel Aviv University (2014-2020), The Graduate School Notable Alumnus-Northwestern University (2010), Academic Senate Faculty Research Lecturer Award-UCSD (2008), 5 regional EMMY, 2 TELLYs, and First Place Gold Camera Awards for the movie “When Things Get Small”, Doctor Honoris Causa – Universidad Complutense, Madrid (2005), the David Adler Lectureship (2003), Alexander von Humboldt Award (2000), Wheatley Award (1999), DOE Outstanding Scientific Accomplishments (1987), a Doctor Honoris Causa at Universidad Complutense de Madrid (2005) and the 2015 Lise Meitner Lectureship Award. Schuller is a president of the board of trustees and scientific advisory committee at the IMDEA Nanoscience Institute. Schuller was elected fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2018.
