Professor and Associate Chair
Department of Materials Science and Engineering
Faculty Scientist
Materials Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
216 Hearst Memorial Mining Building
UC Berkeley
Berkeley, CA 94720
Education
Experience
Professor and Associate Chair of Materials Science and Engineering, University of California-Berkeley
Faculty Scientist, Materials Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
(2018-present)
Associate Professor of Materials Science and Engineering,
University of California-Berkeley
Faculty Scientist, Materials Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
(2014-2018)
Assistant Professor of Materials Science and Engineering and Faculty Affiliate of the Materials Research Laboratory, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (2009 - 2014)
Postdoctoral Fellow, Quantum Materials Group, Materials Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (2008 - 2009)
NSF IGERT Fellow in Nanoscience and Engineering and Intel Robert Noyce Fellow in Microelectronics, Graduate Researcher, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of California, Berkeley (2004 - 2008)
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Biography
Professor Lane W. Martin is a Professor and Associate Chair of Materials Science and Engineering and a Faculty Scientist in the Materials Sciences Division at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Lane received his B.S. in Materials Science and Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University in Dec. 2003 and his M.S. and Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley in 2006 and 2008, respectively. From 2008 to 2009, Lane served as a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Quantum Materials Program, Materials Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. From 2009 to 2014, Lane was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. In 2014, Lane returned to the University of California, Berkeley as an Associate Professor from 2014-2018. He was promoted to Full Professor in July 2018 and named Associate Chair in Aug. 2018. As of April 2020, Lane has published >200 papers, his work has been cited ~17,000 times (resulting in an h-index = 57; i10-index = 148), and he has given ~130 invited/plenary/keynote talks during his career. Lane’s work has garnered a number of awards including the IEEE-Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control (UFFC) Society Ferroelectrics Young Investigator Award, 2020-2021 Defense Science Study Group, 2018 and 2019 Highly Cited Researcher (ranked in the top 1% by citations for field and publication year in Web of Science), the Robert L. Coble Award for Young Scholars from the American Ceramic Society (2016), the American Association for Crystal Growth (AACG) Young Author Award (2015), the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (2014), the Dean’s Award for Research Excellence for the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (2013), the National Science Foundation CAREER Award (2012), the Army Research Office Young Investigator Program Award (2010), a National Science Foundation IGERT Fellowship in Nanoscale Science and Engineering (2004-2007), the Intel Robert Noyce Fellowship in Microelectronics (2007-2008), the Graduate Excellence in Materials Science Award (2006), and the Materials Research Society’s Gold Medal Award for Graduate Students (2006).