Professor Mark C. Hersam, a Northwestern University materials engineer and member of the DuPont-Northwestern-Dow Collaborative Access Team (DND-CAT) at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Advanced Photon Source has been named a 2014 MacArthur Fellow.

Hersam, according to a Northwestern University on-line article, “teaches the innovators of tomorrow and works across scientific boundaries to create new materials for use in electronics, solar cells and batteries.” Hersam is a co-author on many journal articles based on research carried out at the DND-CAT and at several X-ray Science Division beamlines at the Argonne Advanced Photon Source, as well as at the Argonne Center for Nanoscale Materials.

Read the entire Northwestern University article by Emily Conover here.