Steven Johnson
Assistant Professor
Department of Physics
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich
Switzerland
Biography
Steven Johnson has been an an Assistant Professor (tenure) at the Institute for Quantum Electronics in the Physics Department, since 2011. He was born in Madison, Wisconsin, USA, in 1975. He obtained a BSc in mathematics and physics from Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, CA, USA, in 1997. In 2002 he earned his PhD in physics from the University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA. From 2003-2011 Steven Johnson worked as a staff scientist, at the Paul Scherrer Institut (Swiss Light Source). His responsibilities included the design and execution of ultrafast x-ray experiments, the management of SLS FEMTO short pulse x-ray source, and the instruction and supervision of PhD students and postdoctoral workers.
Research Interest
Atomic-scale motion of materials; To change the properties of materials using such perturbations to change microscopic symmetries.
