Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Robert Westervelt received his PhD from the University of California, Berkeley in 1977. Following a postdoctoral appointment, he moved to Harvard University, where he is currently the Mallinckrodt Professor of Applied Physics and Physics. Westervelt's group images electron flow in graphene and other 2D materials using a liquid-He cooled scanning probe microscope. He is the Director of the Center for Nanoscale Systems at Harvard, which provides shared facilities for imaging, nanofabrication and characterization of novel materials and devices. In addition, he is the PI and Director of the NSF Science and Technology Center for Integrated Quantum Materials based at Harvard University, with partners at Howard University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the Museum of Science, Boston.