Gabriel Aeppli is the Quain Professor of Physics and Director of the London Centre for Nanotechnology. Prior to taking up these posts in the autumn of 2002, he was a Senior Research Scientist for NEC(Princeton), a Distinguished Member of Technical Staff at Bell Laboratories, a Research Assistant at MIT, and an industrial co-op student at IBM. He obtained a B.Sc. in Mathematics and PhD, M.Sc. & B.Sc in Electrical Engineering from MIT. Honours include, elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society (2010), the IOP (Institute of Physics) Mott Prize(2008), APS (American Physical Society) Oliver Buckley Prize(2005), the Majumdar Memorial Award of the Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science(2005), the IUPAP Magnetism Prize/Neel Medal(2003), Riso National Laboratory Fellow(2002), Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award(2002), Fellow of the American Physical Society(1997), and Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science(1996). In addition, he has been a member and chairman of many panels, sponsored by the USDOE, American Physical Society, EPSRC, and National Research Council (US), among others.
Gabriel’s experience and involvement with nanotechnology are both managerial and scientific. He co-founded the interdisciplinary and interuniversity (Imperial and University Colleges) London Centre for Nanotechnology, developed its overall problem-solving strategy, arranged for the procurement of a new laboratory/office facility dedicated to nanotechnology in central London, defined the operating model in collaboration with colleagues at both Colleges, and is now managing operations and future programme development.
His personal research is currently focussed on the implications of nanotechnology for information processing and health care.