Professor Mark Hersam

Biography

Professor Mark Hersam is a founder of NanoIntegris and serves as the primary technical advisor. He is currently a Professor of Materials Science and Engineering and a Professor of Chemistry at Northwestern University. He earned a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Urbana¬Champaign (UIUC) in 1996, M.Phil. in Physics from the University of Cambridge in 1997, and a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from UIUC in 2000. In 1999, he also performed research at the IBM T. J. Watson Research Laboratory under the support of an IBM Distinguished Fellowship. As a faculty member, Professor Hersam has received several awards including the Beckman Young Investigator Award (2001), NSF CAREER Award (2001), ARO Young Investigator Award (2005), ONR Young Investigator Award (2005), Sloan Research Fellowship (2005), Presidential Early Co Teacher of the Year Awards (2003, 2007).

Research Interest

 Nanotechnology