Electrical Engineer University
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CURRICULUM VITAE
William Esco (W. E.) Moerner
Harry S. Mosher Professor and Professor, by courtesy, of Applied Physics
Department of Chemistry, Biophysics Program, Molecular Imaging Program, and Center for
Biological Imaging at Stanford
Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305-5080
(phone), 650-***-**** (fax), e-mail: ********@********.***
Education
1975
B.S. Physics Washington University
(Final Honors) St. Louis, Missouri
B.S
. Electrical Engineering
(Final Honors)
A.B. Mathematics
(summa cum laude
)
1978
M.S. Cornell University
(Physics) Ithaca, New York
1982
Ph.D. Cornell University
(Physics) Ithaca, New York
Career Summary
2011
- Chemistry Department Chair
2005- Professor, by courtesy, of Applied Physics, Stanford University
2002- Harry S. Mosher Professor of Chemistry, Stanford University
1998- Professor of Chemistry, Stanford University
1995
-1998 Distinguished Chair in Physical Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and
Biochemistry,
University of California, San Diego
1997
-1998Robert Burns Woodward Visiting Professor, Department of Chemistry, Harvard
University
1989
-1995Research Staff Member and Project Leader, IBM Almaden Research Center, San
Jose, California
1993
-1994Visiting Guest Professor, Laboratory for Physical Chemistry, ETH Zentrum
(Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
), Zurich, Switzerland
1988
-1989Manager, Laser-Materials Interactions, IBM Almaden Research Center, San Jose,
California
1981
-1988Research Staff Member, IBM Almaden Research Center, San Jose, California
1975
-1981 Graduate Research Assistant and NSF Graduate Fellow, Laboratory for Atomic
and Solid State Physics, Cornell University,
Ithaca, New York
1972
-1975 Research Assistant, Department of Physics, Washington University, St. Louis,
Missouri
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Honors
Pittsburgh Spectroscopy Award, 2012
Irving Langmuir Prize in Chemical Physics, 2009
Wolf Prize in Chemistry, 2008
Member, National Academy of Sciences, 2007
Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2004
Geoffrey Frew Fellow, Australian Academy of Sciences, 2003
Harry Stone Mosher Professor of Chemistry, Stanford University, 2002
Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2001
Earle K. Plyler Prize for Molecular Spectroscopy, American Physical Society, 2001
Robert Burns Woodward Visiting Professor, Department of Chemistry, Harvard University,
Winter 1997-1998
First holder of Distinguished Professorship in Physical Chemistry, Department of
Chemistry
and Biochemistry,
University of California, San Diego, 1995-1998.
Visiting Guest Professor of Physical Chemistry, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
(ETH-
Zurich), 1993-1994
IBM Outstanding Technical Achievement Award for Single-Molecule Detection and
Spectroscopy, November 22, 1992
Fellow, American Physical Society, November 16, 1992
Fellow, Optical Society of America, May 28, 1992
Senior Member, IEEE, June 17, 1988
IBM Outstanding Technical Achievement Award (with R. M. Macfarlane and R. M. Shelby)
for Photon-Gated Spectral Hole-Burning, July 11, 1988
National Winner of the Roger I. Wilkinson Outstanding Young Electrical Engineer Award
for 1984,
from the electrical engineering honorary society, Eta Kappa Nu, April 22, 1985
Lectureships
Pittsburgh Conference Lecturer, Department of Chemistry,
University of Pittsburgh, 2011
Leica Scientific Forum Lecturer, July 2011
Willis Flygare Memorial Lecturer, Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign, 2011
Joe L. Franklin Lecturer, Department of Chemistry, Rice University, 2010
William Lloyd Evans Lecturer, Department of Chemistry,
The Ohio State University, 2009
Karl Friedrich Bonhoeffer Lecturer, Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry,
Gottingen, Germany, 2009
Neil Gordon Frontiers in Chemistry Lecturer, Department of Chemistry, Wayne State
University, 2009
A. S
. Noyes Lecturer, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Texas at
Austin, 2009
DuPont-Marshall Lecturer, Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania, 2008
Herbert H. King Lecturer, Department of Chemistry, Kansas State University, 2006
Edwin Yunker Lecturer, Department of Physics, Oregon State University, 2006
A. R. Gordon Distinguished Lecturer, Department of Chemistry, University of Toronto, 2006
Lecturer, Summer School on Visualization, Manipulation, and Modeling of Single
Biomolecules, ENS Paris, France,
2005
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Geoffrey Frew Fellowship Lecturer, Australian Academy of Sciences (University of
Queensland, Australian National University, Swinburne Institute of Technology,
University of Melbourne
), 2003
International Invited Lecturer (Basel, Berne, Lausanne, Geneva): Conference Universitaire
de
Suisse Occidentale du 3cme Cycle en Chimie, 2003
Moses Gomberg Lecturer, Department of Chemistry, University of Michigan, 2001
William Draper Harkins Lecturer, Department of Chemistry, University of Chicago, 2001
Guest Lecturer in Frontiers in Spectroscopy,
Ohio State University, 1999
Arthur D. Little Lecturer, Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of
Technology,
1995
Ehrenfest Colloquium Lecturer, University of Leiden, The Netherlands, March 1994
Samuel M. McElvain Lecturer, Department of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin, 1993
Patents
U. S. Patent 4,614,116: "Phase Sensitive Ultrasonic Modulation Method for the Detection
of
Strain-Sensitive Spectral Features", September 30, 1986.
U. S. Patent 5,064,264: "Photorefractive Materials", November 12, 1991.
U. S. Patent 5,361,148: "Apparatus for Photorefractive Two-Beam Coupling," November 1,
1994.
U. S. Patent 5,460,907: "Photorefractive Materials", October 24, 1995.
U. S. Patent 5,607,799: Optical Photorefractive Article, March 4, 1997.
U. S. Patent 6,046,925: Photochromic Fluorescent Proteins and Optical Memory Storage
Devices Based on Fluorescent Proteins, April 4, 2000.
U. S. Patent 6,280,884: Process for Photorefractive Index Grati ng Formation, August
28,
2001.
U. S. Patent 7,068,698 Room-Temperature Source of Single Photons Based on a Single
Molecule in a Condensed Matter Host," June 27, 2006.
U. S. Patent 8,057,655: Sub-Micron Object Control Arrangement and Approach Therefor,
Nov. 15, 2011.
Application: Fluorogenic Compounds and Their Use in Biological Systems, Provisional
filed May 23, 2008; Filed May 13, 2009.
Application: Three-dimensional superresolution optical imaging, Provisional filed
December 17, 2008
; Filed December 17, 2009.
Application: Firefly Luceferin Analogues, Methods of Making Firefly Luceferin Analogues,
and Methods of Imaging, Provisional filed March 10, 2009.
Application: Enhancement of Molecular Emission by Bowtie Nanoantennas, Provisional
filed October 15, 2010; Filed October 17, 2011.
Professional Societies and Positions
Advisory Editor, Chemical Physics Letters 1998-
Advisory Editor, ChemPhysChem 2004-
Advisory Editor, Single Molecules 2000-2002
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
American Association for the Advancement of Science
American Chemical Society
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Program Committee, Symposium on Optical Properties of Polymers, August 1996
Single-Molecule Symposium Organizer, Physical Chemistry Division, April 1997
Co-Editor, Special Issue of Accounts of Chemical Research on Single Molecules and
Ions, December 1996
American Physical Society
Chair, Herbert P. Broida Prize Committee 2000
Member, Earle K. Plyler Prize Committee 2001
Symposium Organizer for Laser Science Topical Group, 1992 March Meeting
Symposium Organizer for Laser Science Topical Group, 1993 March Meeting
Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, Lasers and Electro-Optics Society
Assistant Treasurer, 1988 Annual Meeting
Treasurer and Program Committee Member, 1989 Annual Meeting
Symposium Organizer, LEOS 1989 Annual Meeting on Optical Memory and
Storage
Materials Research Society
National Academy of Sciences
Optical Society of America
Chair, Fundamental and Applied Spectroscopy Technical Group, 1992-1994
General Chair and Founder, OSA Topical Conference on Persistent Spectral
Hole-Burning Science and Applications, 1991
Co-Editor, 2 Special Issues of J. Opt. Soc. America B on Persistent Spectral
Hole-Burning
Advisory Chair and Program Committee Member, Topical Meeting on Spectral
Hole-Burning and Luminescence, 1993-1994
Assistant Chair, Fundamental and Applied Spectroscopy Technical Group,
1992
Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers
Program Co-Chair, Symposium on Organic Photorefractive Materials, 1996, 1997, 1998
Program Committee, 1999-2003
Conference on Quantum Electronics and Laser Science
Program Committee, 1992 and 1993
Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics
Program Committee, 1999
International Conference on Hole-Burning and Single-Molecule Spectroscopies
Program Committee, 1996, 1999, 2003
Gordon Research Conference on Single-Molecule Approaches to Biology,
Co-Vice Chair, 2008; Co-Chair, 2010.
Task Forces and Major University Committees
Chairman, IBM Task Force on Frequency Domain Optical Storage, 1984.
Physics and Mechanisms Member, IBM Task Force on Holographic Optical Storage, 1986.
Co-Chair, Systems and Applications, IBM Optical Storage Initiative, 1988.
Member, Appointments and Promotions Committee, Division of Humanities and Sciences,
Stanford University, 2002-2004.
Member, Nanoinitiative Committee, Stanford University, Winter 2006
Member, NSF Center for Probing the Nanoscale Executive Committee, Fall 2007
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Member, Stanford University Health and Safety Committee, 2007-2008
Chair, Stanford University Committee on Health and Safety, 2008-2009, 2009-2010
Member, Stanford University Emergency Management Steering Committee, 2009-2010
Member, Advisory Board, Center for Biological Imaging at Stanford, 2010-
Study Panels and Governmental Committees
Member, NSF SBIR Study Panel, September, 1996.
Member, NIH Bioengineering Symposium Panel on Imaging at the Molecular and Cellular
Levels, February 27-28, 1998.
Co-Chair, Toward Molecular Scale Devices Subgroup, NSF Integrating Themes Workshop
for Physical Chemists, September 18-20, 1998, Keystone, Colorado.
Member, NIH Review Panel, November 1999; September 2000.
Member, FAMOS Update Panel, National Research Council, 1999-2002.
Member, NIH-NIGMS Workshop on Single Molecule Detection and Manipulation, 2000
Member, NSF-Intelligence Community Workshop on Approaches to Combat Terrorism,
2002.
Subgroup Chair, NIH-NIDA Workshop on Emerging Technologies: Analysis of
Endogeneous Biomaterials and Single-Molecule Studies, 2002.
Member, International Review Committee for the Institute of Atomic and Molecular
Sciences (IAMS) of Academia Sinica, Taiwan, 2003.
Member, NIH-BST Molecular Imaging Study Section, 2004.
Member, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory DOE-BES Review Panel, 2005.
Member, DOE Workshop on Single-Molecule Research in the New Millenium, 2005.
Member, Advisory Board, Institute of Atomic and Molecular Sciences (IAMS) of Academia
Sinica, Taiwan, 2005-
Session Chair: NIH Frontiers in Live Cell Imaging Conference, April 19-21, 2006
Member, NIH-NHGRI Study Section, July, 2006.
Member, Board of Scientific Counselors, National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and
Bioengineering, 2010-
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