Junichiro Kono
Karl F. Hasselmann Chair in Engineering
- Director, Smalley-Curl Institute
- Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Professor of Physics & Astronomy
- Professor of Materials Science & NanoEngineering
Prof. Junichiro Kono received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in applied physics from the University of Tokyo in 1990 and 1992, respectively, and completed his Ph.D. in physics at the State University of New York at Buffalo in 1995. He was a postdoctoral research associate in condensed matter physics at the University of California, Santa Barbara, from 1995 to 1997 and worked as the W. W. Hansen Experimental Physics Laboratory Fellow in the Department of Physics at Stanford University from 1997 to 2000. He joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of Rice University in 2000 as an Assistant Professor and was promoted to Associate Professor in 2005 and to Professor in 2009. He is currently Karl F. Hasselmann Chair in Engineering, serving as a Professor in the Departments of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Physics & Astronomy, and Materials Science & Nanoengineering, as well as the Director of the Smalley-Curl Institute at Rice University.