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Kenneth S. Schweizer

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G. Ronald and Margaret H. Morris Professor of Materials Science and Engineering

Office 206 Materials Science and Engineering Building

Telephone 217-333-6440 Fax 217-333-2736

Mail Address Department of Materials Science and Engineering
1304 W. Green St., Urbana, IL 61801

kschweiz@illinois.edu

Biosketch

Professor Schweizer received his B.S. degree, summa cum laude, from Drexel University and a Ph.D. in physics from UIUC in 1981. Following a two year postdoctoral appointment at AT&T Bell Labs, he was a senior research scientist at Sandia National Laboratories in the Organic and Electronic Materials Department. Dr. Schweizer joined the UIUC faculty in 1991, and is presently a professor of Materials Science and Engineering, Chemistry, and Chemical Engineering, principal investigator in the interdisciplinary Frederick Seitz Materials Research Laboratory, and the Associate Director of the National Science Foundation Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center for the "Directed Assembly of Nanostructures".