Prof. Oleg GANG

Prof. Oleg GANG
Department of Chemical Engineering, Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science, Columbia University, New York, USA

Oleg Gang is a Professor of Applied Physics and Materials Science, and of Chemical Engineering. He earned MS and Ph.D. (2000) from Bar-Ilan University, Israel, specializing in atomic spectroscopy and soft matter, respectively. As a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University (School of Engineering and Applied Sciences), he studied nanoscale liquid phenomena. Dr. Gang started at Brookhaven National Laboratory in 2002, rising through the ranks to lead the Soft and Bio-Nanomaterials group at the Center for Functional Nanomaterials from 2008. As of 2016, Dr. Gang has joined as a Full Professor the Department of Chemical Engineering and the Department of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics of Columbia University. Dr. Gang has received the University President Award and Wolf Foundation scholarship for his PhD work, Distinguished Rothschild (2000) and Goldhaber (2002) fellowships, Department of Energy Outstanding Mentor Award (2009), Gordon Battelle Prize for Scientific Discovery (2010) among others. Dr. Gang has been named Battelle Inventor of the Year (2016), and is a Fellow of the American Physical Society