Ivan K. Schuller

Ivan K. Schuller (born 1946 in Romania) is an American condensed matter experimental physicist. He is born 1946 in Cluj, Northern Transylvania, which belonged to Hungary until 1947. He is best known for his work on superlattices. His interests are focused on thin films, nanostructures, novel materials, magnetism, and superconductivity.

The Romanian-born Schuller received his Licenciado (1970) from the University of Chile, MS degree (1972) and PhD (1976) from Northwestern University. From 1978 to 1987, he was a senior physicist and group leader at Argonne National Laboratory. Since 1987, he has been a professor of physics at the University of California, San Diego; in addition to this position, he is also Layer Leader-Materials and Devices of CAL-(IT)2 Institute, and director-AFOSR-MURI at UCSD. He held visiting professorships at the Catholic University - Santiago, Chile; Universidad del Valle, Colombia; the Catholic University-Leuven, Belgium, the Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen, Germany, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, and University of Paris.

Currently he is a Distinguished Professor and holder of Research Chair V of the Center for Memory and Recording Research (CMRR) at the University of California San Diego.

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