Juan Carlos Campuzano

Juan Carlos Campuzano (born July 25, 1949) is a Paraguayan American physicist. He is a Distinguished Professor of Physics at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He was a Distinguished Fellow at Argonne National Laboratory (the equivalent of an endowed chair), and a he is also a 2001 American Physical Society Fellow and a recipient of the 2011 Oliver Buckley Prize in Condensed Matter Physics. He is an expert in high-temperature superconductivity.

Campuzano obtained his B.S. and Ph.D. in physics from University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee in 1972 and 1978, respectively. He has also worked as a postdoctoral fellow and research associate at the University of Liverpool and the University of Cambridge. His research interests include infrared spectroscopy on metal surfaces, electronic excitations in high temperature superconductors and other materials, etc.

Education

 * Ph.D., Physics, University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, 1978.
 * B.S., Applied Mathematics and Physics, University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, 1972.

Awards

 * Buckley Prize, 2011
 * Outstanding Alumnus Award, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee 2008
 * HENAAC Outstanding Technical Achievement Award, 2007
 * Fellow, American Physical Society, 2001.
 * The University of Chicago Medal for Distinguished Performance at Argonne National Laboratory, 1999.
 * Fellow, Cambridge Philosophical Society, 1985
 * The American Vacuum Society Scholar, 1975.
 * Research Fellowship, International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy, 1974.