Gabriel Aeppli

FRS
Gabriel Aeppli during a visit to the Center for Quantum Nanoscience
Born (1956-11-25) 25 November 1956 (age 67)
Zürich
NationalityAmerican Swiss
EducationMassachusetts Institute of Technology (B.Sc, M.Sc, PhD)
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Gabriel Aeppli, PhD FRS (born 25 November 1956 in Zurich) is a Swiss-American electrical engineer, co-founder of the London Centre for Nanotechnology, professor of physics at ETH Zürich and EPF Lausanne, and head of the Synchrotron and Nanotechnology department of the Paul Scherrer Institute, also in Switzerland.[1][2]

He has contributed to spectroscopy on the magnetism of disordered systems and on high-temperature superconductors and antiferromagnetism, identifying magnets with tuneable quantum fluctuations that can be used to study the transition between classical and quantum behavior. His work has helped to demonstrate that quantum spin fluctuations underlie exotic superconductivity.

He has been the recipient of multiple honors, and he has more than 290 peer-review publications, 14,054 total citations from 9,542 documents, and a h-index of 70.

Life

Gabriel, the son of mathematician Alfred Aeppli and Dorothee Aeppli, was born in Zürich 25 November 1956.

Shortly after birth, Gabriel Aeppli moved from Zürich with his father to the United States.[3]

He lived in London, United Kingdom, from 2002 to 2015, when he moved back to Zürich.

Career

He studied at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he obtained a B.Sc. in 1978 in mathematics and PhD, M.Sc. & B.Sc, in electrical engineering (1983).

He was a research assistant at MIT and an industrial co-op student at IBM. From 1982 he was at the Bell Laboratories hired in 1993 as a distinguished member of the technical staff. From 1996 to 2002, he was a senior research scientist at the NEC Laboratories in Princeton.

From 2002, as Quain Professor of Physics at University College London (UCL), he helped to found the London Centre for Nanotechnology, where he acted as director until March 2015.[4]

His current technical focus is on the implications of photon science and nanotechnology for information processing and health care. He is a board member of Bio Nano Consulting.[5][6]

Currently, he is the director of synchrotron radiation and nanotechnology at the Paul Scherrer Institute.[7]

Research

Honors

In addition, he has been a member and chairman of many panels, sponsored by the USDOE, American Physical Society, EPSRC, and National Research Council (US), among others.[11]

Books

References

  1. ^ "Index". www.ethlife.ethz.ch. Retrieved January 22, 2019.
  2. ^ "Search · EPFL". search.epfl.ch. Retrieved January 22, 2019.
  3. ^ Lemonick, Michael D. (February 5, 2006). "Are We Losing Our Edge?". Time. ISSN 0040-781X. Retrieved January 22, 2019.
  4. ^ "Professor Gabriel Aeppli steps down as Director of the LCN | London Nano".
  5. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on October 30, 2011. Retrieved September 8, 2015.((cite web)): CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  6. ^ ltd, company check. "PROFESSOR GABRIEL AEPPLI director information. Free director information. Director id 912493383". Company Check. Retrieved January 22, 2019.
  7. ^ "Paul Scherrer Institut (PSI) ::". Archived from the original on September 5, 2015. Retrieved September 8, 2015.
  8. ^ "Gabriel Aeppli | Royal Society". royalsociety.org. Retrieved October 2, 2019.
  9. ^ "2008 Mott medal and prize". Institute of Physics. Retrieved December 26, 2019.
  10. ^ "2018 Stanley Corrsin Award Recipient". www.aps.org. Retrieved October 2, 2019.
  11. ^ Workshop Frontiers. Gabriel Aeppli[dead link]
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