Jean-Pierre Leburton received his Ph.D. from the University of Liege (Belgium) in 1978. He is the Gregory E. Stillman Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Illinois and a full-time faculty member in the Computational Electronics group in the Beckman Institute. His fields of professional interest are semiconductor devices, nonlinear transport in semiconductors, electronic and optical properties of quantum nanostructures, quantum wires and quantum dots, spintronics in nanostructures, and bio-nanotechnology.
Honors: Fellow, Electrochemical Society (2005); Quantum Devices Award, Eudyna Corp. (2004); Fellow, AAAS (2001); Fellow of the Optical Society of America (2001); Associate, U of I Center for Advanced Study (1999); Fellow, American Physical Society(1999); Fellow, IEEE (1996); Member, New York Academy of Sciences (1996); Chevalier dans L'Ordre des Palmes Academiques, French Government (1993); Hitachi Ltd. Quantum Materials Chair, RCAST, University of Tokyo, Japan (1992); U. S. Patent #5,021,841 on "Semiconductor Devices with Controlled Negative Differential Resistance" (issued June 4, 1991); ESIS Fellowship, Belgian Government; Who's Who in the World, 9th and 10th Editions; Who's Who in American Education 5th &6th Edition; Who's Who in Science and Engineering, 4th & 5th Editions; American Men and Women of Science, 20th and 21st Editions; Who's Who in America, 58th Edition (2004); Gold Medal for Scientific Achievement, Alumnus Assoc., U of Liege, Belgium (2004).