Research Areas:
Condensed Matter Physics and Materials Science

Prof. Marvin Cohen is Professor of the Graduate School at the University of California, Berkeley and Senior Faculty Scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. He was awarded a Doctor of Science honoris causa from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in 2013. His current and past research covers a broad spectrum of subjects in theoretical condensed matter physics. He is a recipient of the US National Medal of Science, the APS Oliver E. Buckley Prize for Solid State Physics, the APS Julius Edgar Lilienfeld Prize, the Foresight Institute Richard P. Feynman Prize in Nanotechnology, and the Technology Pioneer Award from the World Economic Forum along with numerous other honors.

Prof. Cohen has contributed more than 750 technical publications. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, a Member of the US National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. In 2005, he was President of the American Physical Society (APS), an organization representing more than 47,000 physicists in universities, industry and national laboratories.