David S. Ginger
B. Seymour Rabinovitch Endowed Chair in Chemistry
Chief Scientist, UW Clean Energy Institute
Adjunct Professor of Physics, Adjunct Professor of Materials Science & Engineering (by courtesy)
Lab Fellow, Pacific Northwest National Lab (dual appointee)
Associate Editor, Chemical Reviews
Ph.D. Physics, University of Cambridge, 2001
email : dginger@uw.edu
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David S. Ginger earned dual B.S. degrees in chemistry and physics at Indiana University in 1997 with departmental honors and highest distinction, performing undergraduate research with Victor E. Viola.
He received a British Marshall Scholarship and an NSF Graduate Fellowship and completed his Ph.D. in physics with Neil C. Greenham in the Optoelectronics group at the University of Cambridge (UK) in 2001.
After a joint NIH and DuPont Postdoctoral Fellowship at Northwestern University in Chad Mirkin’s lab, he joined the faculty at the University of Washington in Seattle where he is currently the B. Seymour Rabinovitch Endowed Chair in Chemistry, Adjunct Professor of Physics and Materials Science and Engineering, and serves as the Chief Scientist of the Washington state funded UW Clean Energy Institute. He holds a joint appointment as a Lab Fellow at Pacific Northwest National Lab (PNNL), and is the founding director of the NSF Science and Technology Center for the Integration of Modern Optoelectronic Materials on Demand (IMOD).
His own research focuses on understanding new semiconductor materials using microscopy and spectroscopy, with applications in solar energy, next generation displays, quantum information, and neuromorphic computing.
He is a Fellow of the Materials Research Society, a member of the Washington State Academy of Sciences, an elected fellow of the AAAS (American Association for the Advancement of Science) and has been named a Research Corporation Cottrell Scholar, a Research Corporation Scialog Fellow in solar energy conversion, an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Research Fellow, and a Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar. He has been recognized with The Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, the ACS Unilever Award in Colloid and Surfactant Science, a Blavatnik National Award Finalist for Young Scientists, and the Burton Medal of the Microscopy Society of America. He participated in the 2012-2013 class of the Defense Science Study Group. He is currently an Associate Editor of the ACS journal Chemical Reviews.