David Ginger

David Ginger

B. Seymour Rabinovitch Endowed Chair in Chemistry

University of Washington

David S. Ginger is the B. Seymour Rabinovitch Endowed Chair in Chemistry at the University of Washington, where he also serves as Chief Scientist of the UW Clean Energy Institute, Founding Director of the NSF Center for Integration of Modern Optoelectronic Materials on Demand (IMOD), and Co-Director of NW IMPACT. He is also a Lab Fellow at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. Ginger’s research uses advanced microscopy and spectroscopy to understand emerging semiconductor materials, with applications in solar energy, optoelectronics, quantum technologies, and neuromorphic computing. He is a Fellow of the AAAS and the Materials Research Society, a member of the Washington State Academy of Sciences, and has received major honors including the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers and the ACS Unilever Award. He currently serves as an Associate Editor of Chemical Reviews.

Interests
  • Scaning probe microscopy
  • Solar and Optoelectronic materials
  • Mixed conduction polymers
  • Colloidal nanoparticles
Education

  • NIH and DuPont Postdoctoral Fellow, 2003

    Northwestern University

  • Ph.D. in Physics, 2001

    University of Cambridge

  • B.S. in Physics, Chemistry, 1997

    Indiana University Bloomington

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