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Nan Yao is the Director of PRISM Imaging and Analysis Center at Princeton University, where he teaches courses in materials science and engineering in the undergraduate and Ph.D. programs. After receiving a Ph.D. in applied physics and electron microscopy (with John M. Cowley) from Arizona State University, he went into industry, first working at the Shell Development Company, then at the Exxon (now ExxonMobil) Research and Engineering Company. He joined Princeton University in 1993 to help build an imaging and analysis program, which is now one of the preeminent imaging and analysis centers in America. In 2003, Yao accepted a continuing appointment as a Senior Research Scholar (rank of full professor) at Princeton University.
His research has been focused on using advanced imaging and spectroscopy techniques to conduct fundamental studies of the structure-composition-processing-property relationships in complex materials such as nanostructured and nanophased materials, carbon and metal oxide nanotubes, self-assembled organic/inorganic composites, functional block copolymer thin films, catalysts, superconductors, minerals, piezoelectric materials, etc. Yao has published two books entitled “Handbook of Microscopy for Nanotechnology” (Springer/Kluwer Publishers, 2005, Tsinghua University Press, 2006) and “Focused Ion Beam System: Basics and Applications” (Cambridge University Press, 2007). He has also authored 8 book chapters and more than 150 research papers in journals including Nature, Science, Physics Review Letters, Nano Letters, etc. Yao serves on the Editorial Board for eight professional journals and is on the proposal advisory panels for research centers of two national laboratories.
For the past several years, Yao has chaired or co-chaired eight international symposia and delivered over twenty invited lectures. He serves on the NASA panel for Ceramic and Nanotechnology. He is a keynote speaker in the US R & D Magazine’s Research Lab Expo Conference in 2005 and the Lead Judge in materials science in the Siemens Westinghouse National Science Competition since 2006. He is a recipient of 2007 Princeton Engineering Council Award for Excellence in Teaching. His students have won Fannie and John Hertz Foundation Fellowship, Harvey Fellowship, LeRoy Apker Award, AFCEA National Grand Prize for Science, National Science Foundation Fellowship, National Defense Science and Engineering Fellowship, Materials Research Society Student Award, Microscopy Society of America Undergraduate Research Award (4 times), etc.
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