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Simon J. L. Billinge

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Simon J. L. Billinge
Professor
(office) 1105 S.W. Mudd
(mail) 200 S.W. Mudd, Mail Code: 4701
New York, NY 10027

Phone: +1 212 854 2918
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Research Specialty

Nanoscale structure-property relationships in functional nanomaterials studied using novel x-ray and neutron scattering techniques coupled with advanced computing; solving the nanostructure problem

Education

1987-1992 University of Pennsylvania, Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering
1982-1986 University of Oxford, BA Materials Science

Societies

American Physical Society, American Crystallographic Association, Neutron Scattering Society of America

Honors

2007 University Distinguished Professor, Michigan State University
2006 Fellow, American Physical Society
2006 Michigan State University, College of Nat. Sci., DistinguishedFaculty Award
1998 Thomas H. Osgood Undergraduate Teaching Award
1995 Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship
1992 Sigma Xi Outstanding thesis award, U. Pennsylvania
1992 Electro-science Laboratories Award, U. Pennsylvania

Books

Robert E. Dinnebier and Simon J. L. Billinge, Editor, Powder
Diffraction: Theory and Practice, Royal Society of Chemistry, London
England, 2008.

T. Egami and S. J. L. Billinge, Underneath the Bragg Peaks: Structural Analysis of Complex Materials, Elsevier Science, Oxford, 2004.

S. J. L. Billinge and M. F. Thorpe, Editor, From semiconductors to proteins, beyond the average structure, Plenum, New York, 2002.

S. J. L. Billinge and M. F. Thorpe, Editor, Local structure from diffraction, Plenum, New York, 1998.3.

S. J. L. Billinge, Electronic Oxides: Properties and applications, Web Proceedings of the 11th Annual CFMR symposium


Select Publications

S. J. L. Billinge and I. Levin, The problem with determining atomic structure at the nanoscale, Science 316, 561-565 (2007).

P. Juhas, D. M. Cherba, P. M. Duxbury, W. F. Punch and S. J. L. Billinge, Ab initio determination of solid-state nanostructure, Nature 440, 655-658 (2006).

S. J. L. Billinge and M. G. Kanatzidis, Beyond crystallography: the study of disorder nanocrystallinity and crystallographically challenged materials, Chem. Commun. 2004, 749-760 (2004).