Biography:J. C. Seamus Davis

J.C. Séamus Davis is an Irish physicist, currently the James Gilbert White Distinguished Professor of Physical Sciences at Cornell University.

Biography

Davis earned a B.Sc. in Physics from the University College Cork – National University of Ireland in 1983 and a Ph.D. in Physics from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1989. He became a postdoctoral research associate at the University of California, Berkeley in 1990 and joined the faculty there 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 his current position 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 2014 he received an Honorary Doctorate (D.Sc.) from National University of Ireland.

His active research is focused upon the macroscopic quantum physics of emergent quantum matter. This includes studies of superconductors, superfluids, supersolids, strongly correlated electron fluids (heavy-fermion/hund), topological ferromagnets and superconductors, and of spin & monopole liquids. His current research program is carried out at Cornell University, Brookhaven National Laboratory, St. Andrews University, and as a visitor to Tyndall National Institute.

Awards

Davis has been the recipient of the Outstanding Performance Award of the Berkeley National Lab. (2001), the Science and Technology Award of Brookhaven National Lab. (2013), the Fritz London Memorial Prize (2005) for his research on superfluids, the Kamerlingh-Onnes Memorial Prize (2009) for his research on high temperature superconductivity, and the Science Foundation Ireland Medal of Science (2016). He is a Fellow of the Institute of Physics (UK), the American Physical Society (USA), and a Member of the US National Academy of Sciences.