Plenary Speaker

Alan Heeger

Nobel Laureate, Chemistry, 2000;
Professor of Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara

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Alan Heeger, winner of the 2000 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, is a Professor of Physics at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Having pioneered research in the area of semiconducting and metallic polymers, he focuses his current research on transport in semiconducting polymers and light emission from semiconducting polymers (both photoluminescence and electroluminescence). Heeger is the most cited author in this field. In addition to his work at UC Santa Barbara, he is an adjunct professor of physics at the University of Utah and chief scientist at the UNIAX Corporation. He is also the director of the Heeger Center for Advanced Materials at the Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology in the Republic of Korea. His numerous awards and honors include the Balzan Prize, the President's Medal for Distinguished Achievement from the University of Pennsylvania, the Chancellor's Medal from UC Santa Barbara, and appointment as the Albert Einstein Honorary Chair Professor at the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2005. Heeger received a bachelor's degree from the University of Nebraska and a Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley.