Aharon Kapitulnik

Professor of Physics and Applied Physics
 

Geballe Laboratory for Advanced Materials
McCullough Building rm. 361
Stanford University, Stanford CA 94305

tel 650-723 3847 
fax 650-725 2189
aharonk@stanford.edu

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Research Interests

Condensed matter physics; Physics of low-dimensional systems; Disordered and Strongly correlated electron systems; Superconductivity, magnetism, quantum phase transitions.

Use of condensed matter techniques for general physics measurements; Measurement of gravity at sub-mm length-scales.

• Experimental Condensed Matter 
• Superconductivity 
• Physics of Disordered Systems 
• Gravity at short distance

Career History

• B.A. 1975, Tel-Aviv University 
• Ph.D., 1983 Tel-Aviv University 
• Weizmann fellow and Institute Fellow 
• Institute for Polymers and Organic Solids, Associate Member 
• Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara, 1983-85 
• Assistant Professor of Applied Physics, Stanford University 1985-90 
• Associate Professor of Applied Physics, Stanford University, 1990-94 
• Associate Professor of Physics, Stanford University, 1993-94 
• Professor of Applied Physics and of Physics, 1994-present 
• Fellow of the American Physical Society, 1995 
• Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellow 
• Presidential Young Investigator Award 
• IBM Faculty Development Award 
• TRW Faculty Assistantship Award
  
• 2009 Heike Kamerlingh Onnes Prize

Graduate Students as of 7/2004:

• Sylvia Smullin
• Alan Fang
• Myles Steiner
• Andrew Geraci
• David Weld
• Jing Xia