Steven Gwon Sheng Louie

Who is Steven Gwon Sheng Louie?

Steven Gwon Sheng Louie is a computational condensed-matter physicist. He is a professor of physics at the University of California, Berkeley and senior faculty scientist in the Materials Sciences Division at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, where his research focuses on nanoscience. He is also scientific director of the Theory of Nanostructured Materials Facility at the Molecular Foundry.

He was born in Guangdong province, China in 1949 and moved to San Francisco when he was 10. His Chinese name is 雷干城. He received his PhD degree in 1976 from Berkeley, working with Professor Marvin L. Cohen.