STEPHEN R. LEONE
CURRENT POSITION
Professor of Chemistry
John R. Thomas Endowed Chair in Physical Chemistry
Department of Chemistry
University of California, Berkeley
Professor of Physics
Department of Physics
University of California, Berkeley
Faculty Principal Investigator
Chemical Sciences Division
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratories
AWARDS AND HONORS
Member, National Academy of Sciences (1995)
Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2000)
Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science (1990)
Fellow, American Physical Society (1982)
Fellow, Optical Society of America (1980)
Alfred P. Sloan Fellow (1977-81)
Department of Commerce Silver Medal Award (1980)
American Chemical Society Pure Chemistry Award (1982)
American Chemical Society Nobel Laureate Signature Award for Graduate Education in Chemistry, jointly with D.J. Nesbitt and J.T. Hynes (1983)
Coblentz Award for Spectroscopy (1984)
Department of Commerce Gold Medal Award (1984)
Arthur S. Flemming Award for Government Service (1986)
Fellowship, Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science (1986)
John Simon Guggenheim Fellow (1988)
Herbert P. Broida Prize of the American Physical Society (1989)
Visiting Miller Research Professor to the University of California, Berkeley (1990)
Visiting Professor at the Chemistry Research Promotion Center, Taiwan (1992)
Samuel Wesley Stratton Award from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (1992)
Bourke Medal of the Faraday Division of the Royal Society of Chemistry (1995)
Member of the National Academy of Sciences (1995)
Centennial Speaker, American Physical Society (1999)
Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2000)
American Chemical Society Peter Debye Prize (2005)
JILA Fellow Adjoint (2006-2011)
Morris Belkin Visiting Professorship, Weizmann Institute (2009)
Polanyi Medal of the Gas Kinetics Division of the Royal Society of Chemistry, UK (2010)
Miller Professorship, Miller Research Institute (2010)
National Security Science and Engineering Faculty Fellowship, Department of Defense (2010)
Irving Langmuir Prize in Chemical Physics, American Physical Society (2011)
Chemical Society Review Lecture Award, Royal Society of Chemistry (2011)
Distinguished Schulich Lectureship Award, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology (2012)
Distinguished Charles A. McDowell Lectureship Award, The University of British Columbia (2012)
Distinguished J. L. Franklin Memorial Lectureship, Rice University (2015)
Distinguished Milton Kahn Lectureship, University of New Mexico (2016)
Distinguished R. B. Bernstein Lectureship, University of Wisconsin-Madison (2016)
Honorary Degree of Doctor of Science, University of Warwick, UK (2016)
Ahmed Zewail Award in Ultrafast Science and Technology (2017)
Distinguished Dreyfus Foundation Lectureship, The State University of New York (SUNY) (2019)
Distinguished Gislason Lectureship, University of Illinois, Chicago (2019)
Distinguished Brian Bent Lectureship, Columbian University (2019)
Deans Distinguished Lectureship, North Carolina A&T State University (2021)
Honorary Chair of the 19th International Symposium on Ultrafast Intense Laser Science (ISUILS2022) (2022)
CONTACT
Office: 209 Gilman Hall
Department of Chemistry
University of California
Berkeley CA 94720-1460
FACULTY SUPPORT ADMINISTRATOR
Anneke Runtupalit
Email: anneke_r@berkeley.edu