UCSD Physics Awards

Nine professors at the University of California, San Diego have been named 2011 Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the nation's largest scientific organization.

Lu Sham, professor of physics, is a theoretical condensed matter physicist whose research is focused on the optical control of electron spins in semiconductor nanostructures for quantum information processing and spintronics. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and Academia Sinica. In addition, he is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and Optical Society of America.