About Nick Butch
I am an experimental condensed matter physicist at the NIST Center for Neutron Research and an adjunct associate professor at the University of Maryland Physics Department's Quantum Materials Center.
Education
PhD Physics, UC San Diego, 2008
MS Physics, UC San Diego, 2003
BS Physics, Rutgers U, 2001
BS Ceramic & Materials Engineering, Rutgers U, 2001
Appointments
Physicist, NIST Center for Neutron Research, National Institute of Standards and Technology, 2013 -
Adjunct Associate Professor, Quantum Materials Center, Dept. of Physics, U. Maryland, College Park, 2018 -
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Center for Nanophysics and Advanced Materials, Dept. of Physics, U. Maryland, College Park, 2013 - 2018
Directorate Postdoctoral Fellow, Condensed Matter and Materials Division, Lawrence Livermore National Lab, 2011 - 2013
Rolfe Glover Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Nanophysics and Advanced Materials, U. Maryland, College Park, 2008 - 2011
Research Assistant, M. B. Maple Group: experimental research of strongly correlated electron materials, UC San Diego Dept. of Physics, 2001 - 2008
Teaching Assistant, UC San Diego Dept. of Physics, 2001 - 2002, 2004
Research Assistant, S. H. Garofalini Group: computational modeling of silica intergranular regions, Rutgers U. Dept. of Ceramic and Materials Engineering, 2000 - 2001
Research Assistant, Lucent Technologies, Murray Hill, NJ, Bell Laboratories, summer 2000
Research Assistant, H. Kojima Group: experimental low temperature research, Rutgers U. Dept. of Physics, 1997 - 2001
Awards
American Physical Society Fellow (DCMP), 2023
APS Outstanding Referee, 2023
NIST Samuel Wesley Stratton Award, 2020
Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, 2017
NIST Sigma Xi Katharine Gebbie Young Investigator Award, 2016
CNAM Glover experimental postdoctoral fellowship, 2008
ICAM Domestic Junior Exchange Award, Applicant Driven, 2007
Richard T. Weidner Prize, Rutgers University Department of Physics, 2001
Mary Wheeler Wigner Scholarship, Rutgers University Department of Physics, 2000
Malcolm G. McLaren Scholarship, Rutgers U Department of Ceramic & Materials Engineering, 2000
Rutgers University Presidential Scholarship, 1996 - 2001
Professional Activities
National High Magnetic Field Laboratory Users Committee, 2017-
Fundamentals of Quantum Materials Workshop and School organizer, 2017-
Science Review Committee, ORNL Neutron Sciences, 2015 -
NCNR Summer School on the Fundamentals of Neutron Scattering co-chair, 2014
APS March meeting sorting 2011 -
APS March meeting DCMP Insulators and Dielectrics lead organizer, 2014-2015
APS March meeting DMP Topological Materials Focus Topic lead organizer, 2013
APS FGSA Canadian-American-Mexican Conference San Diego local committee, 2005
UCSD Physics Dept. Committee on Educational Policy, 2002-2006
UCSD Physics Dept. Student Life Committee, 2004-2007
Photographs from Bygone Days
Rutgers University
2001 Weidner Prize award ceremony with Prof. Mohan Kalelkar
