CURRICULUM VITAE - J. C. Séamus Davis

Professor of Physics
University of Oxford
Oxford, UK


Clarendon Laboratory, University of Oxford, Oxford, OX1 3PU, UK.

Senior Fellow,
Wadham College, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK

Wadham College, Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3PU, UK.

Professor of Quantum Physics
University of College Cork
Cork, Ireland


School of Physics, University College Cork, Cork T12 R5C, Ireland

Emeritus Professor of Physics
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY USA

Department of Physics, Cornell University, Ithaca NY 14850, USA

 

Education / Experience / Appointments

  1979-1983 UCC, National University of Ireland, B. Sc. Physics 1983.
  1983-1989 University of California, Berkeley, Ph.D. Physics 1989.
  1983-1989 Graduate Research Assistant, U. of California, Berkeley.
  1990-1992 Postdoctoral Research Associate, U. of California, Berkeley.
  1993-1997 Assistant Professor of Physics, U. of California, Berkeley.
  1998-2002 Faculty Physicist, L. Berkeley National Laboratory, CA.
  1998-2000 Associate Professor of Physics, U. of California, Berkeley.
  2000-2002 Professor of Physics, U. of California, Berkeley.
  2003-2008 Professor of Physics, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY.
  2007-2018 Senior Physicist, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY.
  2007-2018 SUPA Distinguished Professor of Physics, St. Andrews University, Scotland.
  2008-2018 J.G. White Distinguished Professor, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY.
  2009-2014 Director, DoE, Center for Emergent Superconductivity, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY.
  2019-present J.G. White Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY.
  2019-present Senior Fellow Wadham College, Oxford University, Oxford, UK.
  2019-present Professor of Physics, Oxford University, Oxford, UK.
  2019-present Professor of Quantum Physics, University College Cork, Ireland.
     

Distinguished Lectureships

  2002 Ehrenfest Lecturer, University of Leiden, Netherlands.
  2008 Pagels Lecturer, Aspen Center for Physics, Aspen, CO, USA.
  2008 Loeb Lecturer in Physics, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA.
  2009 Einstein Lecturer, Weizmann Institute, Israel.
  2009

Umezawa Lecturer, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada.
  2010

Von Borries Lecturer, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany.
  2011 Centenary Solvay Conference Delegate, Brussels, Belgium.
  2012 Pagels Lecturer for Aspen CfP 50th Anniversary, Aspen, CO, USA.
  2012 E. K. Adams Lecturer, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA.
  2013 CNAM Distinguished Lecturer, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA.
  2013 University Distinguished Lecturer, SUNY, Stony Brook, NY, USA.
  2014 Cabrera Distinguished Lecturer, Universidad Autonoma, Madrid, Spain.
  2014 PITP Distinguished Lecturer, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
  2015 G. W. Boole Memorial Lecturer, University of College Cork, Cork, Ireland
  2015 A. O. Beckman Lecturer, University of Illinois, IL, USA
  2015 Simons Foundation Lecturer, New York, NY, USA
  2018 Welch Memorial Lecturer, University of Toronto, Canada
  2019 Neils Bohr Lecturer, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
  2019 Van der Waals Lecturer, U. of Leiden, Netherlands
  2024 Tsui Lecturer, Chinese Nat. Acad. of Sciences, Beijing, CN
  2025 Science @ Beauty Public Lecture, Tsinghua U., Beijing, CN
     

Awards / Honors / Fellowships

  1994 NSF National Young Investigator Award
  1994 Packard Fellow in Science and Engineering
  1996 Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow
  2000 Miller Research Professor
  2000 Outstanding Performance Award, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
  2004 Fellow of the UK Institute of Physics
  2005 Fellow of the American Physical Society
  2005 F. London Memorial Prize
  2009 H. Kammerling-Onnes Memorial Prize
  2010 Member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences (news on Cornell / BNL / St. Andrews)
  2013 Science & Technology Award, Brookhaven National Laboratory
  2013 National University of Ireland Honorary Doctorate (D. Sc.), Irelend
  2016 Taighde Éireann, Medal of Science
  2019-2030 Taighde Éireann, Research Professorship
  2020-2030 UK Royal Society, Research Professorship
  2020 Fellow of the Royal Irish Academy
  2020 O.V. Lounasmaa Memorial Prize
  2022 Fellow of the American Assoc. Advancement of Science
  2023 O.E. Buckley Memorial Prize

SERVICE

  1 Chairman - Advisory Committee, Quantum Materials Program,
Canadian Inst. For Advanced Research. 2010-2019.
  2 Director, 2009-2014;
DOE Energy Frontier Research Center for Emergent Superconductivity (CES).
  3 Scientific advisory committee, Quantum Materials Institute, UBC 2015-today
  4 Editorial Board, Proceedings of National Academy of Sciences: 2020-today
  5 Chairman, Simon Memorial Prize Committee, 2013-today.