Mostafa Amr El-Sayed

Mostafa El-Sayed is the Julius Brown Chair, Regents' Professor and Director of the Laser Dynamics Laboratory at the School of Chemistry and Biochemistry of the Georgia Institute of Technology. He is a professor emeritus of chemistry and biochemistry at UCLA, where he taught from 1961 to 1994. His research focuses on the study of the properties of plamonic (gold and silver) nanoparticles of different shapes, their interparticle coupling, and their applications in nanocatalysis and nanomedicine. He received the Fresenius, the McCoy and the Harris Awards. He also received the King Faisal International Award in Science, the UCLA Distinguished Teaching Award and gave the UCLA 1990 Faculty Research Lecture. He was a senior Alexander von Humboldt fellow in Germany, a visiting professor in Paris, and is an honorary professor at the University of Cairo, Egypt. In 2007 El-Sayed was awarded the National Medal of Science. He received an honorary doctorate from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1993. In 2009 he received the Ahmed Zuwail Prize in Molecular Sciences. In 2011, Thomson-Reuters listed Professor El-Sayed # 17 in their list of top Chemists of the Decade, and in 2015, listed him in their "Most Highly Cited" list. In 2016, El-Sayed was awarded the 2016 American Chemical Society (ACS) Priestley Medal, the highest honor given by ACS.