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Jeffrey C. Grossman leads the new NSF Nanoscience and Engineering Center, COINS, at the University of California at Berkeley. He is charged with driving forward several large-scale sensing applications through highly interdisciplinary research approaches involving 30 faculty members at Berkeley, Stanford, and CalTech. In addition, Dr. Grossman heads the Computational Nanoscience Group at UC Berkeley, which is actively engaged in a number of research areas relating to the simulation of nanoscale materials and interfaces. His research focuses on the application and development of cutting-edge classical and quantum simulation tools to understand, predict, and design novel nanoscale materials with applications to: developing new sensing approaches, predicting new materials for efficient photovoltaics, examining the microscopic properties of water, understanding the growth mechanisms of carbon nanotubes and silicon nanowires, and designing controllable self-assembly processes of inorganic nanoscale building blocks.

Dr. Grossman received his Ph.D. in theoretical physics from the University of Illinois, performed postdoctoral work at U.C. Berkeley, and was a Lawrence Fellow at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, where he helped to initiate a large-scale computational nanoscience program. He is a widely published scientist, and has been in the business of simulating nanoscale materials for over 15 years.