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Chi-Chang Kao

Chair, National Synchrotron Light Source

Chi-Chang Kao, a physicist and leader in synchrotron light research, was named chair of the National Synchrotron Light Source (NSLS) in October 2006 after serving for 10 months as the interim chair. The NSLS has 175 employees and a user-community of about 2,200 researchers a year from more than 400 universities, laboratories, and companies.

Biographical Information

Kao earned a B.S. degree in chemical engineering in 1980 from National Taiwan University and a Ph.D in chemical engineering from Cornell University in 1988. Shortly after, he joined BNL as a postdoctoral research assistant at the NSLS. His research focuses on the development of new experimental techniques using synchrotron radiation, and their applications to condensed matter physics and material sciences.

He received tenure as a Brookhaven physicist in 1997 and served as the NSLS high-energy program coordinator from 1998 to 2001. He was promoted to senior physicist in 2001 and was named NSLS Deputy Chairman in 2005. Kao also is the Associate Chairman for User Science and an adjunct professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Stony Brook University. He is a member of the American Physical Society and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

 

Last Modified: January 31, 2008
 


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