Chi-Chang Kao
Chair, National Synchrotron Light Source, Director of the Joint Photon
Sciences Institute
 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.
In December 2008, Kao was named founding Director of the Joint Photon
Sciences Institute (JPSI). To be located at Brookhaven, JPSI is an
interdisciplinary research institute meant to exploit the properties of
advanced light sources to address problems in science and technology,
including the development of renewable, alternative energy sources and new
drugs and medical treatments.
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: December 15, 2008
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