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Pierre Wiltzius

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Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, Director, Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology

Office 1301 Beckman Institute

Telephone 217-244-8373 Fax 217-244-0987

Mail Address Beckman Institute
405 North Mathews, Urbana, IL 61801

wiltzius@uiuc.edu    Wiltzius research group page

Pierre Wiltzius received his Ph.D. in Physics from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETHZ), Zurich, Switzerland in 1981. He was at Bell Laboratories (Lucent Technologies, formerly AT&T) between 1984 and 2001, where he was most recently the Director of Semiconductor Physics Research. He was appointed Director of the Beckman Institute in September 2001; a professor in both the Departments of Materials Science and Engineering and Physics; and a full-time Beckman Institute faculty member in the Nanoelectronics and Biophotonics Group. His fields of professional interest are soft-condensed matter, colloidal self-assembly, photonic crystals and microphotonics.