Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
Simon Billinge’s research advances the study of nanoscale structure and its role in the properties of diverse materials used for energy, catalysis, environmental remediation, and pharmaceuticals.
- Director’s Post-doctoral Research Fellow, Los Alamos National Laboratory, 1992–1994
- Professor, Materials Science and Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics, Columbia University, 2008–
- Physicist, Condensed Matter Physics and Materials Science Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory, 2008–
- Long Term Visitor, Institute Laue Langevin, Grenoble, France, 2012
- Long Term Visitor, European Synchrotron Radiation Facility, Grenoble, France, 2011–2012
- Professor of Physics, Michigan State University, 2003–2007
- Visiting Professor, University of Rome, ‘La Sapienza,’ 2001–2002
- Associate Professor of Physics, Michigan State University, 1999–2003
- Assistant Professor of Physics, Michigan State University, 1994–1999
- American Physical Society
- American Crystallographic Association
- Neutron Scattering Society of America
- Materials Research Society
- Texas A&M Clearfield Endowed Lecturer, 2015
- Fellow of the Neutron Scattering Society of America, 2014
- Neutron Scattering Society of America Service Award for outstanding service, 2012
- Editor of Acta Crystallographica Section A: Foundations of Crystallography, 2012
- Fulbright Research Scholar, 2011–2012
- Carnegie Foundation of New York, honored as one of 24 Outstanding Immigrants, 2011
- Co-editor, Journal Acta Crystallographica Section A: Foundations of Crystallography, 2011
- J. D. Hanawalt Award, International Center for Diffraction Data, 2010
- University Distinguished Professor, Michigan State University, 2007
- Fellow, American Physical Society, 2006
- Michigan State University, College of Nat. Sci., Distinguished Faculty Award, 2006
- Thomas H. Osgood Undergraduate Teaching Award, 1998
- Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship, 1995
- Sigma Xi Outstanding thesis award, University of Pennsylvania, 1992
- Electro-science Laboratories Award, University of Pennsylvania, 1992
- Kirsten M. Ø. Jensen, Pavol Juhás, Marcus A. Tofanelli, Christine L. Heinecke, Gavin Vaughan, Christopher J. Ackerson and Simon J. L. Billinge, Polymorphism in magic sized Au144(SR)60 clusters, Nat. Commun. 7, 11859 (2016). [homepage]
- Paolo Scardi, Simon J. L. Billinge, Reinhard Neder and Antonio Cervellino, Celebrating 100 years of the Debye scattering equation, Acta Crystallogr. A 72, 589-590 (2016). [homepage]
- Simon J. L. Billinge, Physics inside: solving protein structures without crystals, Condensed Matter Physics Journal Club, (2016). [homepage]
- Jianwei Miao, Peter Ercius and Simon J. L. Billinge, Atomic electron tomography: 3D structures without crystals, Science, 353, aaf2157 (2016). [homepage]
- Alexander N. Beecher, Octavi E. Semonin, Jonathan M. Skelton, Jarvist M. Frost, Maxwell W. Terban, Haowei Zhai, Ahmet Alatas, Jonathan S. Owen, Aron Walsh and Simon J. L. Billinge, Direct observation of dynamic symmetry breaking above room temperature in methylammonium lead iodide perovskite, ACS Energy Lett. 1, 880–887 (2016). [homepage]