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Dr. Hugh Churchill
2021
Fellows Program
Professor and 21st Century Chair in Nanophysics, Dept. of Physics; Associate Director, MonArk NSF Quantum Foundry; Assistant Director, Institute for Nanoscience and Engineering;
University of Arkansas (UA)
Hugh Churchill is a native Arkansan and received a Ph.D. in Physics from Harvard University. Before joining the University of Arkansas in 2015, he held a Pappalardo Fellowship at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. At UA, the Churchill Lab combines expertise in nanofabrication with quantum transport and optoelectronic characterization to investigate the electronic, magnetic, and optical properties of atomically thin 1D and 2D semiconductor quantum devices.
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Dr. Hugh Churchill, a member of the ARA Academy of Scholars and Fellows, is internationally recognized as a leading researcher on nanofabrication with quantum transport and optoelectronic characterization. He heads a team that investigates how the physical properties of materials change when reduced to the atomic scale in one or more directions. The change in material properties is then employed to address challenges in quantum technologies with applications like machine learning.