J. C. Séamus Davis

J. C. Séamus Davis is an Irish physicist who is active in the field of quantum matter and who is well-known for wide ranging experimental low-temperature physics research. A specialty is development of innovative instrumentation to allow direct visualization (or perception) of quantum phenomena at atomic scale. At present he holds academic positions at Oxford,[1] Cork,[2] and Cornell.[3]

Biography

Davis was admitted to University College Cork (UCC) in 1978 and studied physics under Frank Fahy, earning a B.Sc. there in 1983.[4] He got a Ph.D. in Physics from the University of California, Berkeley in 1989, became a postdoctoral research associate there in 1990 and joined the faculty in 1993, rising through the ranks to become a full Professor of Physics in 2001. From 1998 to 2003, he was also a Faculty Physicist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. He then joined Cornell University as a Professor of Physics in 2003, and was appointed J.G. White Distinguished Professor of Physics in 2008. Also in 2007, he became SUPA Distinguished Professor of Physics at the University of St Andrews. He joined Brookhaven National Laboratory in 2007 as a Senior Physicist, and in 2009 was appointed Director of DOE's Center for Emergent Superconductivity, an Energy Frontier Research Center. In 2019 Davis became Professor of Physics at Oxford University, Oxford, UK; Professor of Quantum Physics at University College Cork, IRL and Emeritus Professor of Physics at Cornell University, NY, USA.

Research

Research topics that Davis addresses concern the macroscopic quantum physics of emergent quantum matter at low temperatures. Active research interests include studies of superconductors, superfluids and supersolids; Kondo, Weyl and Hund metals; magnetic and Kondo topological condensates; and spin & monopole liquids. For these studies, a variety of specialized instrumentation has been developed including scanning tunneling microscopes, quantum interferometers, quantum mechanical oscillators and spin noise spectrometers.

Awards

Davis has been the recipient of

  • the Outstanding Performance Award of the Berkeley National Lab. (2001),[5]
  • the Science and Technology Award of Brookhaven National Lab. (2013),
  • the Fritz London Memorial Prize (2005) for his research on superfluids,[6]
  • the Kamerlingh-Onnes Memorial Prize (2009) for his research on high temperature superconductivity,[6]
  • the Science Foundation Ireland Medal of Science (2016).[6]
  • the Olli V Lounasmaa Memorial Prize foe 2020 for his pioneering research into visualising electronic quantum matter at the atomic scale.[7]

In 2014 he received an Honorary Doctorate (D.Sc.) from National University of Ireland.[8] In April 2020 he was awarded a Royal Society Research Professorship.[9] He is a Fellow of the Institute of Physics (UK), the American Physical Society (USA), the Max Planck Gesellschaft (DE), the Royal Irish Academy (IE), and a Member of the US National Academy of Sciences. [10]

References
  1. Professor of Physics, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
  2. Professor of Quantum Physics, University College Cork, Cork, IE
  3. JG White Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Cornell University, NY, USA
  4. Address Delivered By: Dr. Michael B. Murphy National University Of Ireland, 2 December 2013
  5. St.Fachtna's De La Salle: Distinguished Past Pupils
  6. Independent Thinking, University College Cork Magazine,21 November 2016
  7. "UCC's Séamus Davis wins international prize for work in quantum physics". www.irishtimes.com. Retrieved 17 July 2020.
  8. List of Honorary Degree Recipients NUI
  9. "Royal Society awards world-class researchers prestigious Research Professorships". Royal Society. 9 April 2020. Retrieved 9 April 2020.
  10. "J.C. Séamus Davis Elected to the National Academy of Sciences". Brookhaven National Laboratory. May 18, 2010. Retrieved July 8, 2018. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
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