Selected Honors

Professor Ivan K. Schuller's Honors

Ivan Schuller holding EMMY

• University of Chicago Medal - 1981
• Outstanding New Citizen of Chicago in 1980-1981
• Technology 100 Award - 1981
• Fellow-American Physical Society - 1985
• Outstanding Scientific Accomplishments – US Department of Energy-1987
• Foreign Member-Chilean Academy of Sciences - 1992
• Dozor Fellow, Israel - 1993
• Chilean Academy of Science - 1995
• Distinguished Speaker, Japan-1998
• Centennial Speaker - American Physical Society-1998-1999
• Wheatley Award - American Physical Society-1999
• Corresponding Fellow-Belgian Academy of Sciences - 1998
• Alexander von Humboldt Prize – Germany-2000
• 92nd most cited physicist (among 517,000) (http://www.sst.nrel.gov/citations.pdf)
• Highly Cited Researchers –Institute for Scientific Information, ISI-2000
• Adler Award - American Physical Society-2003
• Medal- Materials Research Society-2003
• E.O. Lawrence Award – U.S. Department of Energy – 2004
• Foreign Member-Spanish Academy of Sciences - 2005
• Doctor Honoris Causa – Universidad Complutense, Madrid - 2005
• Movie, When Things Get Small - 5 Regional EMMY awards, 2 TELLYs, First Place Gold Camera Award at the United States International Film and Video Festival, 2nd place Materials Research Society Professional Film Festival - 2006
• Sômiya Award for International Collaboration - International Union of Materials Research Societies (IUMRS)-2007
  • U.S. and Belgian Physicists Share Somiya Award for International Collaborative Research [en español]
• APS Outstanding Referee - 2008

Postdocs and Students' Honors

• Eric Fullerton
  1. Fellow of The American Physical Society
  2. Executive Committee of GMAG-APS
• Jean-Pierre Locquet
  1. 1998 IBM Award
• Axel Hoffmann
  1. American Vacuum Society - 3rd Place Best Student Paper - 1997
  2. American Vacuum Society - 2nd Place Best Student Paper - 1998
• Sihong Kim
  1. Creative Computing Award - San Diego Supercomputer Center - 1991
  2. AKPA Outstanding Young Researcher's Award - Honorable Mention - 1998
  3. AKPA Outstanding Young Researcher's Award - Honorable Mention - 1999
• Randy Dumas
  1. McNair Fellowship
  2. Cal(IT)2 Fellowship
• Vincent Cerimele
  1. Cal(IT)2 Fellowship
• Zhipan Li
  1. Cal(IT)2 Fellowship
• Johannes Eisenmenger
  1. Trends in Nanotechnology 2003 (TNT2003) - Prize for Best Poster presented by Ph. D. Students
• Casey Miller
  1. Physics Outstanding Dissertation Award – 2004. University of Texas at Austin

Distinguished Visitors

• Pedro Prieto - Guggenheim Fellow
• Miguel Kiwi - Fellow of The American Physical Society
• Ricardo Ramirez - Fellow of The American Physical Society
• Martha Pardavi-Horvath - POWRE Grant, National Science Foundation, 1999
• Jose L.Vicent - Director of Materials Science-Condensed Matter Division, Spanish NSF
• Yvan Bruynseraede - President Belgian Academy of Science

Ex Students in Major Research Organizations

• Eric Fullerton - IBM-Almaden
• Timothy J. Moran - IBM-San Jose
• Jean-Pierre Locquet - IBM-Zurich
• Peter Høghøj - Institut Laue Langevin