The Department of Materials Science and Engineering is very pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Junqiao Wu as an Assistant Professor. Professor Junqiao Wu received a B.S. from Fudan University and a M.S. from Peking University, China, both in physics. He obtained a Ph.D. degree in Applied Science and Technology from the University of California, Berkeley for work on nitride semiconductors and highly mismatched semiconductor alloys. As a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at Harvard University, he worked on phase transitions in transition metal oxide nanomaterials. He began his faculty appointment in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley in July, 2006. His honors include the Berkeley Fellowship and the 29th Ross N. Tucker Memorial Award.

The Wu group explores novel properties and applications of correlated electron materials with reduced dimensions, phase transitions at the nanometer scale, and optoelectronics and photovoltaics of semiconductor nanostructures.