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Place of Birth: Buenos Aires, Argentina
About Roberto Merlin
- Roberto D.
- Merlin is an Argentine physicist and Peter A.
- Franken Collegiate Professor of Physics and Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Michigan.
- He is known, among other things, for his work on quasiperiodic superlattices, squeezed phonons, and, most recently, for the discovery of "superfocusing", a method for creating glass that can surpass the refraction materials. Roberto Merlin was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
- He received his master's degree from the University of Buenos Aires in 1973 and his doctorate from the University of Stuttgart in 1978.
- His graduate advisor was Professor Manuel Cardona.
- After a postdoctoral position in the group of Professor Miles V.
- Klein at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, he joined the Physics faculty of the University of Michigan in 1980.In 1985 he was promoted to associate professor, and then professor in 1989.
- From 1993 to 1996, Merlin served as Associate Chair for Research and Facilities of the Department of Physics.
- In 2000, he received a joint appointment to the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.
- He is now the director of the Optical Physics Interdisciplinary Laboratory.Merlin is a fellow of the American Physical Society, the Optical Society of America, the von Humboldt Foundation, and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.
- In 2006 he received the Frank Isakson Prize for Optical Effects in Solids from the American Physical Society.Merlin does a variety of interdisciplinary work, mostly related to condensed matter physics.
- He has done research on Raman spectroscopy, rare-earth magnet semiconductors, superconductors, superlattices, ultrafast lasers, intercalated graphite, and negative refraction.
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