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Cyrus F. Hirjibehedin is an Honorary Professor in the London Centre for Nanotechnology at University College London (UCL).
The primary tools that he uses for his research are low-temperature scanning tunneling microscopes, some of which operate in high magnetic fields. These systems are able to image, manipulate, and probe structures on surfaces at the scale of individual atoms.
Prof. Hirjibehedin received a B.S. in both Physics and Computer Science from Stanford University in 1997, after which he earned a Ph.D. in Physics from Columbia University in 2004.
His dissertation research – conducted at both Columbia and Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies under the guidance of Professor Aron Pinczuk – was a study of novel interaction effects in low dimensional electron systems formed in semiconductor quantum structures.
In 2004, Prof. Hirjibehedin became a postdoctoral Research Staff Member at IBM’s Almaden Research Center in the Low-Temperature Scanning Tunneling Microscopy Group. Working with Drs. Don Eigler and Andreas Heinrich, he used the atom-manipulation and spin-excitation-spectroscopy capabilities of a low-temperature high-field scanning tunneling microscope to study the onset of cooperative magnetic behavior in atomically-precise low-dimensional structures.
Career History
- Honorary Professor of UCL (2018)
- Professor of Physics, Chemistry and Nanotechnology (2017)
- Reader (Associate Professor) in Physics, Chemistry and Nanotechnology, UCL (2013-2017)
- Lecturer (Assistant Professor), UCL (2007-2013)
- Postdoctoral Scientist, IBM Almaden Research Center (2004-2007)
- Graduate Research Assistant, Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies (1998-2004)
Education
- Ph.D. in Physics, Columbia University (2004)
- M.Phil. in Physics, Columbia University (2000)
- M.A. in Physics, Columbia University (1999)
- B.S. in Physics and Computer Science, Stanford University (1997)
Awards and Honors
- Medal for Scanning Probe Microscopy, Royal Microscopical Society (2018)
- Outstanding Innovation Award, IBM Almaden Research Center (2007)
- Bravo Team Award, IBM Almaden Research Center (2006)
- Charles Townes Fellow, Columbia University (2003)
- Jerry Selvaggi Scholar, Columbia University (2002)
- Graduate Assistance in Areas of National Need (GAAN) Fellowship, Columbia University (1999-2001)
- David Starr Jordan Scholar, Stanford University (1993)
External Positions
- Visiting Associate Professor to the School of Materials Science at the Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (JAIST)
- Member of the Scientific Committee of the Advanced Microscopy Laboratory, Zaragoza, Spain
Memberships
- American Physical Society
- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) Peer Review College
- Institute of Physics
- Materials Research Society