Steven G. Louie is a Distinguished Professor of the Graduate School at the University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley), and a Senior Faculty Scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. He received his Ph.D. in Physics from UC Berkeley in 1976. Before joining the UC Berkeley Physics faculty in 1980, he worked at the IBM Watson Research Center, Bell Labs, and the University of Pennsylvania.
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, and the Materials Research Society (MRS). His numerous further honors include the APS Rahman Prize, APS Davisson-Germer Prize, APS Dresselhaus Prize, MRS Materials Theory Award, and the Foresight Institute Richard Feynman Prize.
Professor 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.