Pierre Wiltzius (

Luxembourg Luxembourg, officially the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, is a landlocked country in Western Europe. It is bordered by Belgium to the west and north, Germany to the east, and France on the south. Its capital and most populous city, Luxembour ...

- ) is a physicist, the Executive Dean of the College of Letters and Science and Susan & Bruce Worster Dean of Science at the

University of California, Santa Barbara The University of California, Santa Barbara (UC Santa Barbara or UCSB) is a Public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Santa Barbara County, California, United States. Tracing its roots back to 1891 as an ...

and an Elected Fellow of the American Physical Society and of the

American Association for the Advancement of Science The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) is a United States–based international nonprofit with the stated mission of promoting cooperation among scientists, defending scientific freedom, encouraging scientific responsib ...

(Engineering, 1999). His research has varied from

photonic crystals A photonic crystal is an optical nanostructure in which the refractive index changes periodically. This affects the propagation of light in the same way that the structure of natural crystals gives rise to X-ray diffraction and that the atomic ...

and new fabrication techniques such as multi-beam

interference lithography Interference lithography (or holographic lithography) is a technique that uses coherent light (such as light from a laser) for patterning regular arrays of fine features without the use of complex optics, optical systems or photomasks. Basic prin ...

and

colloidal A colloid is a mixture in which one substance consisting of microscopically dispersed insoluble particles is suspended throughout another substance. Some definitions specify that the particles must be dispersed in a liquid, while others exten ...

self-assembly Self-assembly is a process in which a disordered system of pre-existing components forms an organized structure or pattern as a consequence of specific, local interactions among the components themselves, without external direction. When the ...

complex fluids Complex fluids are mixtures that have a coexistence between two phases: solid–liquid ( suspensions or solutions of macromolecules such as polymers), solid–gas (granular), liquid–gas (foams) or liquid–liquid (emulsions). They exhibit unusu ...

and soft condensed matter, resulting in high citations of 1310, 771 and 537, two of them consistently published by ''

Nature Nature is an inherent character or constitution, particularly of the Ecosphere (planetary), ecosphere or the universe as a whole. In this general sense nature refers to the Scientific law, laws, elements and phenomenon, phenomena of the physic ...

''.

Education

Wiltzius attended the

ETH Zurich ETH Zurich (; ) is a public university in Zurich, Switzerland. Founded in 1854 with the stated mission to educate engineers and scientists, the university focuses primarily on science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. ETH Zurich ran ...

(Swiss Federal Institute of Technology) in

Zurich, Switzerland Zurich (; ) is the largest city in Switzerland and the capital of the canton of Zurich. It is in north-central Switzerland, at the northwestern tip of Lake Zurich. , the municipality had 448,664 inhabitants. The urban area was home to 1.45 ...

. There he earned ''Bachelor of Science in Physics'' ("''Diplomphysiker")'' as of 1976 and ''Doctor of Natural Science (DSc.N.)'' in 1981. His doctoral thesis ''An investigation of the fibrinogen to fibrin transition by means of light scattering'' was interdisciplinary, examining

blood coagulation Coagulation, also known as clotting, is the process by which blood changes from a liquid to a gel, forming a blood clot. It results in hemostasis, the cessation of blood loss from a damaged vessel, followed by repair. The process of coagulatio ...

from viewpoints of both physics and medicine. He was a postdoctoral fellow in the Physics Department at UC Santa Barbara from 1982 to 1984.

Career

Wiltzius worked at

AT&T Bell Laboratories Nokia Bell Labs, commonly referred to as ''Bell Labs'', is an American industrial research and development company owned by Finnish technology company Nokia. With headquarters located in Murray Hill, New Jersey, Murray Hill, New Jersey, the compa ...

(later

Lucent Technologies Lucent Technologies, Inc. was an American Multinational corporation, multinational telecommunications equipment company headquartered in Murray Hill, New Jersey, Murray Hill, New Jersey. It was established on September 30, 1996, through the div ...

) from 1984 to 2001, rising to the position of director of semiconductor physics research. As of 2001, Wiltzius became Director of the

Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology The Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology is a unit of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign dedicated to interdisciplinary research. A gift from scientist, businessman, and philanthropist Arnold O. Beckman (1900–2004) and ...

and Professor of Materials Science and Engineering and of Physics at the

University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC, U of I, Illinois, or University of Illinois) is a public land-grant research university in the Champaign–Urbana metropolitan area, Illinois, United States. Established in 1867, it is the f ...

, succeeding

Jiri Jonas Jiri Jonas (born April 1, 1932, in Prague, Czech Republic) is a professor emeritus of chemistry in the Center for Advanced Study at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Jiri Jonas is considered a pioneer in the use of magnetic resonan ...

. He served as Director from 2001 to 2008. As of 2008, Pierre Wiltzius joined the

, as Executive Dean of the College of Letters and Science, the Susan & Bruce Worster Dean of Science, and Professor of Physics.

Research

His research interests include soft condensed matter and complex fluids including polymers, colloids, and liquid crystals. He has investigated the development of new fabrication techniques for

including colloidal self-assembly and multi-beam interference lithography. He was also involved in developing plastic transistors on flexible substrates for various applications, including electronic paper.

Honors

* 2001, Senior member of the

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) is an American 501(c)(3) public charity professional organization for electrical engineering, electronics engineering, and other related disciplines. The IEEE has a corporate office ...

(IEEE) * 2001, R&D100 Innovation Award from R&D Magazine for printed plastic display circuits, given to the Bell/Lucent Research Group, including

Zhenan Bao Zhenan Bao (; born 1970) is a Chinese-born American chemical engineer. She serves as K. K. Lee Professor of Chemical Engineering at Stanford University, with courtesy appointments in Chemistry and Material Science and Engineering. She served a ...

, John A. Rogers, Pierre Wiltzius, and others.Zhenan Bao, Ananth Dodabalapur, Hendrik Schon, John Rogers, Howard Edan Katz, Andrew J. Lovinger, Christian Kloc, Beltram Batlogg, Brian Crone, Kirk W. Baldwin, Valerie J. Kuck, V. Reddy Raju, Pierre Wiltzius, Elsa Reichmanis, Edwin A. Chandross, Karl Amundson, Jay Ewing, Paul S. Drzaic, "Novel organic and polymeric semiconductors for plastic electronics", ''Proc. SPIE'' 4466, Organic Field Effect Transistors, (21 December 2001); doi: 10.1117/12.451475; https://dx.doi.org/10.1117/12.451475 * 1999, Fellow of the

* 1993, Fellow of the

American Physical Society The American Physical Society (APS) is a not-for-profit membership organization of professionals in physics and related disciplines, comprising nearly fifty divisions, sections, and other units. Its mission is the advancement and diffusion of ...

, "For pioneering experiments using light and neutron scattering to study dynamics of non-equilibrium macromolecular systems and binary fluids in porous media."

References

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