Dr. Alivisatos is the Associate Laboratory Director for Physical Sciences and Director of the Materials Sciences Division at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. In 2007, he was appointed Acting Deputy Laboratory Director. Dr. Alivisatos is also a professor of chemistry and materials sciences at the University of California, Berkeley. His research involves investigating the fundamental properties of nanocrystals and developing practical applications of these materials in biomedicine and renewable energy. Dr. Alivisatos was elected into the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2004. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and has received numerous other awards and fellowships, including the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellowship, the American Chemical Society Exxon Solid State Chemistry Fellowship, the Wilson Prize at Harvard, the Materials Research Society Outstanding Young Investigator Award, the University of Chicago Distinguished Alumni Award, and the E.O. Lawrence Award. He is the editor of the American Chemical Society Journal and Nano Letters. He received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley.
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