Professor Steve Louie
Berkeley Physics is pleased to announce that Steven Louie, Distinguished Professor of the Graduate School and a Senior Faculty Scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory has been elected to the Academia Europa.
The object of Academia Europaea is the advancement and propagation of excellence in scholarship in the humanities, law, the economic, social, and political sciences, mathematics, medicine, and all branches of natural and technological sciences anywhere in the world for the public benefit and for the advancement of the education of the public of all ages. The aim of the Academy is to promote European research, advise governments and international organisations in scientific matters, and further interdisciplinary and international research.
Professor Louie is an elected member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, Academia Sinica (Taiwan), the European Academy of Sciences, and a foreign member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He is also a fellow of the American Physical Society (APS), the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), and the Materials Research Society (MRS), among other honors.
Louie’s research focuses on condensed matter physics and nanoscience. With over 700 publications, he is widely recognized for his pioneering development of the ab initio GW method and for his groundbreaking studies of novel bulk and reduced-dimensional systems.