Charles T. Campbell

Charles T. Campbell is the Lloyd E. and Florence M. West Professor of Chemistry at the University of Washington. He is an elected Fellow of both the American Association for the Advancement of Science and of the American Chemical Society. He has received the Arthur W. Adamson Award of American Chemical Society (ACS) and its Award for Colloid or Surface Chemistry, the Gerhard Ertl Lecture Award, the Ipatieff Lectureship at Northwestern University, an Alexander von Humboldt Research Award in Germany, a Dreyfus Foundation Teacher / Scholar Award, the John Yarwood Award of the British Vacuum Council and the St. John s College Visiting Scholarship at Cambridge University. He served as Editor-in-Chief of Surface Science for over a decade, and as Chairman, Chairman-Elect, Vice-Chairman, and Treasurer of the Colloid and Surface Chemistry Division of the American Chemical Society. He was the founding Co-Director and Director of the University of Washington's Center for NanoTechnology and helped develop the USA s first Ph.D. program in Nanotechnology there. He is the author of over 260 publications on surface chemistry, catalysis, and biosensing, with a Hirsch h-index of 62 and more than 800 citations each year for the past four years. He received his B.S. in Chemical Engineering (1975) and his Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry under J. M. White (1979) from the University of Texas at Austin. He did postdoctoral research in Germany with Gerhard Ertl (2007 Nobel Prize Winner).