Peter Abbamonte

• Associate Professor, Physics Department, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, 2005-present
• Affiliate, Frederick Seitz Materials Research Laboratory, 2005-present
  
  Background

• Scientific staff at Brookhaven National Laboratory, 2003-2005
• Postdoc in biophysics at Cornell University, 2001-2003
• University of Groningen in The Netherlands on an IRFAP fellowship from the National Science Foundation, 1999-2001
• Ph.D from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign/Bell Laboratories, 1999

• Xerox Award for Faculty Research (2010).
• Arnold O. Beckman Fellow, Center for Advanced Study (2008-2009).
• NSF Intl. Research Fellowship, 2000-2001
• List of professors rated "excellent" by their students: Fall 2010, Spring 2010, Spring 2009, Spring 2007

•  Scientific Advisory Committee, Advanced Light Source, 2009-pres.
•  Co-Director, Intermediate Energy X-Ray CDT, Sector 29, APS, 2008-pres.
•  NSLS User Executive Committee, 2007-2008
•  CHESS User Group Committee, 2004-2005
•  Science Advisory Committee, Helmholz Center, FLASH, DESY, 2003-2006
•  Advisory Committee, Sector 9, APS, 2003-pres.

• Electron self-organization in condensed matter, stripe phases, topological order; edge and interface effects in oxide devices; quantum phase transitions; collective excitations in interacting electron systems.

• If I were elected to the APSUO I would give the management ideas for how to improve the scientific focus of the APS and help it better engage the outside world.