DAVID C. JOHNSTON

DISTINGUISHED PROFESSOR OF LIBERAL ARTS AND SCIENCES
PROFESSOR OF PHYSICS/SENIOR PHYSICIST B BASE
PHYSICS AND ASTRONOMY/AMES LABORATORY GRAD. FACULTY - FULL

PERSONAL HISTORY

Summers, Research Engineer, Ford Scientific Laboratory,
1968, 1969 Dearborn, Michigan

1969 B.A., Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara

1969-1975 Research Assistant, Department of Physics, University of
California, San Diego

1975 Ph.D., Physics, University of California, San Diego

1975-1978 Assistant Research Physicist, Institute for Pure and
Applied Physical Sciences, University of California, San Diego

1978-1987 Member Research Staff
Corporate Research Laboratories
Exxon Research and Engineering Company
Route 22 East, Annandale, New Jersey 08801
1978-1980 - Senior Physicist
1980-1982 - Staff Physicist
1982-1984 - Senior Staff Physicist
1984-1987 - Research Associate

1987-2000 Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy
Senior Physicist, Ames Laboratory
2000-present Distinguished Professor of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011
Summer, 1991 Visiting Scientist, National Research Institute for Metals,
Tokyo, Japan
June, 1998 Visiting Scientist, Max-Planck-Institut fur Festkorperschaung,
Sept, 1999 Stuttgart, Germany

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

Fellow, American Physical Society

RESEARCH EMPHASES

The overall goal of our research is to synthesize materials with novel, interesting and important properties of potential use in the energy sector. The materials and subjects of interest include high-temperature superconductors; the interaction of superconductivity and magnetism; metals and insulators with unique magnetic properties; low-dimensional and/or frustrated antiferromagnets, and d-electron heavy fermion compounds. Understanding our physical property data in terms of theoretical models is strongly emphasized.