Phaedon Avouris

Phaedon Avouris (Greek Φαίδων Αβούρης, also Fedon Avouris transcribed; born June 16, 1945) is a Greek chemist working in the field of nanotechnology at IBM in the U.S. and research.

Avouris studied at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki with a bachelor's degree in 1968 and in 1974 received his doctorate at Michigan State University in Physical Chemistry. As a post - graduate student he was at the University of California, Los Angeles. 1977/78 he was at Bell Laboratories and at IBM in 1978 at the Thomas J. Watson Research Center. Since 1984, he was manager there in research ( Department of Chemical Physics ).

It deals with the theoretical and experimental electronic structure and chemistry on metal and semiconductor surfaces, scanning tunneling microscopy, dynamics and mechanisms of interaction of particles and photons with surfaces, charge and energy transfer processes on surfaces.

He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, the American Chemical Society and the Material Research Society.

He is a U.S. citizen.

Awards

• Irving Langmuir Prize, American Physical Society, 2003
• Julius Springer Prize, 2008
• 1999 Feynman Prize in Nanotechnology.
• IBM Fellow