Lydia Sohn
Assistant Professor
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA

Workshop Panelist: Ethics in Physics II: Professional Integrity in Research & Authorship

Biographical Sketch
Lydia Lee Sohn received both her undergraduate (1988) and doctoral (1992) degrees from Harvard University. Her doctoral thesis was based on work performed in Prof. M. Tinkham’s laboratory on arrays of superconducting Josephson junctions. From 1992-1993, she was an NSF/NATO postdoctoral fellow in the group of Prof. dr. J. E. Mooij at Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands and investigated the quantum electron transport properties in superconducting arrays. From 1993-1995, she was an AT&T postdoctoral fellow in the Semiconductor Physics Dept. at AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ. At Bell Labs, Sohn developed a new technique for achieving sub-50 nm nanostructures using an atomic force microscope. From 1995-2003, Sohn was an Assistant Professor in the Physics Department at Princeton University. Her work ranged from investigating the electron transport properties of various biological systems to developing novel electronic sensors for microfluidic devices. Since 2003, Sohn has been an assistant professor in the Mechanical Engineering Dept. at the University of California, Berkeley. Sohn continues to investigate the electron transport properties of various biological systems and develop novel electronic sensors for microfluidic devices.

Sohn has been recognized for her achievements in the nanotechnology area with numerous awards. To highlight only a few: the Army Research Office Young Investigator Award (1997-2000); the NSF Faculty Career Early Development Award (1996-2000); the DuPont Young Professor Award (1996); and the AT&T and Lucent Technologies Foundation Award (1996). She has served on numerous panels for the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, the National Research Council, and DoD concerning biosensing and the interface between biology and the physical sciences, especially in the areas of nanotechnology.