Oleg Gang

Oleg Gang is a Professor of Chemical Engineering and of Applied Physics and Materials Science at Columbia University, and a Scientist at Brookhaven National Laboratory, where he leads the Soft and Bio-Nanomaterials Group at the Center for Functional Nanomaterials. He is also a Global Faculty member of the Advanced Science Institute and the Institute for Basic Science Center for NanoMedicine (IBS CNM) at Yonsei University, South Korea. His research explores molecular and nanoscale self-assembly phenomena and develops a strategy for programming the assembly of nanoscale structures and their transformations. The created systems exhibit adaptive and multifunctional properties, enabling them to address challenges in the design of new materials for applications in optics, information processing, sensing, and mechanics. Gang earned his Ph.D. in physics from Bar-Ilan University and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Harvard University as a Rothschild Fellow. Gang is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and a recipient of the Battelle Inventor of the Year Award, the Gordon Battelle Prize for Scientific Discovery, Vannevar Bush Faculty Fellowship, and has been awarded numerous grants with the Department of Defense, Department of Energy, NSF, and Keck Foundation.