My CV

CURRICULUM VITAE

Dr. James Kazimierz Gimzewski

Address
University of California, Los Angeles
Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry
607 Charles Young Drive East
Los Angeles, CA 90095

Telephone
Office (310) 794-7514
FAX: (310) 206- 4038

E-mail
gim@chem.ucla.edu
www.chem.ucla.edu/dept/Faculty/gimzewski/

Research Activities

Dr. Gimzewski is a Professor of Chemistry at the University of California, Los Angeles. Prior to joining the UCLA faculty, he was a group leader at IBM Zurich Research Laboratory, where he was involved in nanoscale science and technology issues for more than 18 years. Dr. Gimzewski pioneered research on mechanical and electrical contacts with single atoms and molecules using scanning tunneling microscopy and was one of the first persons to image molecules with STM. His recent accomplishments include the first STM-based fabrication of molecular suprastructures at room temperature using mechanical forces to push molecules across surfaces, the discovery of single molecule rotors and the development of new micromechanical sensors based on nanotechnology, which explore ultimate limits of sensitivity and measurement. This approach was recently used to convert biochemical recognition into Nanomechanics. His current interests are in the design, fabrication and measurements of the mechanics of molecular systems that exhibit functionality at the level of single molecules and in the field of nanofabrication, atomic aspects of catalytic processes as well as self-assembly and nanotubes.

Education and Degrees

1977 Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland, UK Thesis Title: "The Reaction of Gaseous Molecules with Metal Surfaces Studied by X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy"

1974 B.Sc. (Hons) in Pure Chemistry, Upper Second, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland

Professional Positions

2001- Professor of Chemistry, University of California, Los Angeles
present

1983- Research Staff Member and Project Leader in Nanoscale Science, IBM Research 2001 Division, IBM Zurich Research Laboratory, Rüschlikon, Switzerland

1979- Post-Doctoral Research Fellow: Plasma-Surface Interactions Group, Institute of 1983 Inorganic Chemistry, University of Zurich, Switzerland

1977- Post-Doctoral Research Fellow: The Radiation Center, Oregon State University,
1979 Corvallis, Oregon

Invited Academic Positions

1997- Visiting Professor, School of Manufacturing Science, Cranfield University,
1999 Cranfield, Bedfordshire, UK

1995 Invited Guest Scientist (STA Fellow) International Research Fellowship Science and Technology Agency (STA), National Research Institute for Metals, Tsukuba, Japan

1991 University Professor 1 au 3i echelon, de la 1ere classe, Dept. of Physics, University Aix-Marseilles II, France (visiting)
September 16, 1991

1989 University Professor 1 au 3i echelon, de la 1ere classe, Dept. of Physics, University Aix-Marseilles II, France (visiting)

Honors

Elected Fellow Royal Academy of Engineering, London, United Kingdom

2001 Dudell Medal and Prize for contribution to Nanoscale science, Institute of Physics, London.

2000 IBM Sixth Invention Achievement Plateau Award

1998 The `Wired 25' Award, Wired magazine, The Paramour, Los Angeles

1997 Awarded the 1997 Feynman Prize in Nanotechnology for Experimental Work
Feynman Prize Committee and the Foresight Institute, Palo Alto, CA

1997 The Discover Award for Emerging Fields (Nanotechnology) Epcot

1997 Awarded status of `Founder' of the Institute of Nanotechnology, UK

1997 IBM Fifth Invention Achievement Plateau Award

1997 IBM Outstanding Innovation Award in appreciation for Engineering Single Molecules

1996 Invited STA Fellow National Institute for Metals (NRIM), Tsukuba, Japan

1995 Elected Fellow of the Institute of Physics (FinstP), London,UK
1995 Awarded title of Chartered Physicist (CPhys)

1994 IBM Fourth Invention Achievement Plateau Award

1992: IBM Research Division Group Award in Appreciation of
Construction and Operation of a Low Temperature UHV STM

1992 IBM Third Invention Achievement Plateau Award

1989 IBM Outstanding Innovation Award in appreciation for Local Experiments
and Local Photoemission in Scanning Tunneling Microscopy

1987 IBM Second Invention Achievement Plateau Award

1986 IBM First Invention Achievement Plateau Award

1985 IBM First Patent Application Award

Conference Chairs

Chair The 2nd International Symposium on Nanoarchitectonics Using Suprainteractions (NASI 2) March 2002, Los Angeles, CA

Co-Chair “The First E.L.B.A. - Foresight Conference on Nanotechnology” April 14-16, 1999; Rome, Italy

Chair 3rd International Symposium on Advanced Physics “APF-3,” Tuskuba, Japan, February 18-20, 1998

Co-Chair Phantoms Industrial Workshop “Nanotechnology- A Challenge to Industry in the New Millennium”, Zurich, Switzerland October 1-2 1998

Co-Director NATO ARW on Nano-Age Mechanics, Loch Lomond, Scotland
October 1-4, 1995

Co-Director NATO ARW on the Ultimate Limits of Fabrication and Measurement, Cambridge, UK April 5-8, 1993

Co-Chair Workshop on Fullerenes, IBM Zurich Research Laboratory, Rüschlikon, Switzerland October 2, 1992

Co-Organizer Europhysics Industrial Workshop EIW-8, “Nanometer-Scale Methods in Technology and Industry,” Davos, Switzerland, August 18-21, 1991

Conference Organization

1999

Member of the International Program Committee of “Towards Molecular Electronics”
Poznan, Poland, July 5-10, 1999

Member of the Program Committee of the 10th International STM Conference (STM'99) Seoul, Korea, July 18-23, 1999

Member, International Program Committee: 9th Int'l Conf. on Production Engineering, Osaka, Japan, August 30 - September 1, 1999

1998

Chairperson, 3rd International Symposium on Advanced Physical Fields “APF-3,” Tsukuba, Japan, Feb. 18-20, 1998

1997

Session Chairperson: 36th IUPAC Congress, Geneva, Switzerland Aug. 17-22, 1997

Member of the International Program Committee: 1st Int'l Symp. Scanning Probe Spectroscopy and Related Methods “SPS'97,” Poznan, Poland, July 15-18, 1997

1996

Session Chairman and Panel Discussion Member: Japanese-Swiss Science Seminar: Nanoscience -- The Impact of Scanning Probe Microscopy, Ascona, Switzerland,
December 1996

Session Chairman: 10th Toyota Conference on Atomic, Molecular and Electronic Dynamics Processes on Solid Surfaces, Shizuoka, Japan, November 1996

Session Chairman: 1st International Symposium on Advanced Physical Fields, Tsukuba, Japan, March 1996

1995

Member International Program Committee, and Session Chairman: 15th European Conference on Surface Science “ECOSS-15,”Lille, France, September 4-8, 1995

Member of the Scientific and Selection Committee, the Advisory Committee, and Session Chairman, NATO ARW on Nanoscale Science “Chemical, Structural and Electronic Analysis of Heterogeneous Surfaces on Nanometer Scale,” Trieste, Italy, April 24-26, 1995

1994

Session Chairman of “Materials” and invited speaker at the European Colloquium on Near-Field Microscopy, Dijon, France, June 23-25, 1994

1992

Session Chairman: Workshop on Photons and Scanning Probe Microscopies, University of Constance, Germany, July 20-22, 1992

1991

Member of Program Committee and Session Chairman: 1991 STM Conf. “Ten Years of STM,” Interlaken, Switzerland, August 12-16, 1991

1990

Invited Discussion Panel Member:“Recent Trends in Optical Technology,” 15th Cong. Int'l Commission for Optics “Optics in Complex Systems,” Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, August 5-10, 1990

Professional Organizations and Advisory Boards

Member of the selection committee for the Feynman Prize in Nanotechnology, 1998 (Chairman), 1999, 2001, 2002

Member of the International Advisory Committee, Nanoarchitectonics Using Suprainteractions (NASI) 2000, 2001

Advisory Group of the International Review of Physics, UK Government, 2000, 2001

Member of the Advisory Group on Nanotechnology- Office of Science & Industry, Department of Trade and Industry, (DTI) London, UK, 2000, 2001
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Member of the Advisory Group to the International Review of Physics in the UK
Overseen by the EPSRC, PPARC, Institute of Physics and Royal Astronomical Society
January 2000 to date

Member of the Nanotechnology Board of Advisors, University of Louisville and the University of Kentucky, 2000 to date

Member of the Management Board of the EU 5th Framework Program project
“ ATOMS” January 2000.

Member of the Management Board of the EU 4th Framework Program project “ Nanowires” 1997-99

Member Program Committee, 7th Foresight Conf. on Molecular Nanotechnology, Santa Clara, CA October 17-22, 1999

Member Organizing Committee, Conf. on Electron and Electromagnetic Field in Nanometer Structures, Tsukuba, Japan, 200, 2001

Member of the Management Board of the EU 5th Framework Program project
“ BUN: Bottom Up Nanomachines” January 2000.

Member of Advisory Board of the Masters Level Training program in Nanoscale Science and Technology. Center for Self-Organizing Molecular Systems, Universities of Sheffield and Leeds, United Kingdom, June 1999

Member of the Scientific Council of DIMES, TU Delft, June 1999

Member of the scientific committee of the Fondazione E.L.B.A. (Electronics Biology Advanced) June 1999

Meeting of Experts, Nanotechnology for the 5th Framework Program representing DG12 DG3-ESPRIT, COST, SMT Biotechnology and Materials, European Commission, Brussels, Belgium, December 17, 1998

Member, Japanese government agency “Council of Science and Technology,”' Tsukuba, Japan, November 20, 1998

Coordinator Group IV: Advanced Nanostructured Materials: Physics, Fabrication and Devices Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSERC), United Kingdom Government October 1998 to present

Member, Steering Committee of the National Research Program (NRP) “Molecular Devices and Supramolecular Structures,”' Bern, Switzerland, August 19, 1998-2003

Invited referee for EC-ESPRIT long-term research proposals, Brussels, Belgium,
September 29, 1997

Member of the Board, Institute of Nanotechnology, Glasgow, Scotland, August 7, 1997 to date

Invited Member, Evaluation Committee for the NRIM Center of Excellence Development Project, National Research Institute for Metals (NRIM), Tsukuba, Japan
March 1996 to date

Dissertation Committees

Ph.D. Examiner, Dept. of Pure and Applied Physics, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland, UK, June 2001

Ph.D. Examiner, Department of Pure and Applied Physics, Queen's University of Belfast, Northern Ireland, June 14, 1994

Member of Jury Committee for the Ph.D thesis of M. Gu, University of Aix-Marseille II, Faculty of Sciences, Luminy, Marseille, France, July 6, 1993

Examiner of dissertation of T.M.H. Wong, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge, UK, January 31, 1992

Member of the judging committee for the thesis of F. Jensen, Institute of Physics and Astronomy, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark, March 2, 1992

Editorial Services to Scholarly Publications

2001- Member of the Board of Reviewers of Science
date

Editorial Board, J. of Nanoscience and Nanothechnology
present

2001- Member of the Editorial Board of Nanotechnology
present

1997- Co-Editor of Probe Microscopy
present

1997- Editorial Advisory Board of Microscale Thermophysical Engineering
present

1996 Member of the Editorial Advisory Board of Microscale Thermophysical Engineering”

1994 Co-Editor of Ultimate Limits of Fabrication and Measurement,
NATO ASI Series Vol. E: 292, Kluwer Acad. Publishers.

1994 Co-Editor of Prospects of the Limits of Fabrication and Measurement,
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, Vol. 353(1703), pp. 279-393 (1997).

Project Consulting

National Science Foundation (USA); Israel Science Foundation; Australian Research Council, DEET; Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), UK; Swiss National Science Foundation; European Commission MEL ARI.

Expert Witness
Nanoscale and Technology Outlook: 20 Years, UK Government, Dept. of Trade and Industry, London, UK
September 28, 1999

Reviewer Nature, Science, Physical Review Letters, Chemical Physics Letters, Applied Physics Letters, as well as other scientific journals.

Publications Over 150

Patents 17 European and US issued

Invited Talks Over 200

Press Releases and Media Coverage

Approximately 300 press articles reporting highlights of my research have appeared in various print media including Nature, Science, Scientific American, The Economist, The New York Times, The Wall St Journal, The Times, Financial Times, New Scientist, and Discover Magazine.

TV programs and Radio Interviews on my research have been broadcast in Europe and Japan as well as on BBC World Services and CNN International, Deutschland Radio, ABC Radio National etc. Recently, he participated in a new program on Nanotechnology for the BBC in the Open University.