Greene elected to IUPAP General Assembly

Swanlund Professor of Physics Laura H. Greene has been elected by the General Assembly of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP) as U.S. representative to the IUPAP Commission on the Structure and Dynamics of Condensed Matter. 

Commissioners are appointed for three-year terms, and only one representative from the United States may be elected to a Commission. U.S. commissioners are appointed by the National Academy of Sciences.

In addition to Greene, Illinois alumnus David Awschalom (BS 1978, Engineering Physics) was elected to the Commission on Semiconductors, and alumna Julie Wade Borchers (MS 1985, PhD 1990, Physics) was elected to the Commission on Magnetism. Former physics postdoc Aihua Xie was elected commissioner of Biological Physics. Of the 10 U.S. commissioners elected at the IUPAP triennial meeting in November, four have Illinois affiliations. 

A member of the senior physics faculty since 1992, Greene's research continues in experimental condensed matter physics focusing on highly-correlated electron systems and novel materials; in particular high-temperature superconductors, and the interfaces between metallic superconductors and compound-semiconductor heterostructures. Much of her research investigates the role of broken symmetries and their physical ramifications in condensed matter systems, especially that of spontaneously broken-time reversal symmetry in unconventional superconductors.

Greene is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the National Academy of Sciences. Over her career, she has co-authored approximately 140 publications and has presented more than 180 invited talks.

IUPAP was stablished in 1922 in Brussels by 13 member countries. Today, 60 countries are members of the organization aimed at stimulating and promoting international cooperation in physics.
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Contact: Laura Greene, Department of Physics, 217/333 7315.

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