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John D. Joannopoulos
American physicist1947 to 2025
Supervised 34 doctoral students (35 students at any level) at Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Wikidata names Marvin L. Cohen as doctoral advisor, lists 5 doctoral students, and names Marvin L. Cohen as teacher. Linked to Wikidata, ORCID, and 7 other registers.

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Students35
- cited by a thesis record2016 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral
- cited by a thesis record
Sejoong Kim“Inelastic transport In molecular junctions from first principles”
2012 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Alexander P. McCauley“Novel applications of Maxwell's equations to quantum and thermal phenomena”
2011 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Michael Ghebrebrhan“Anomalous phenomena and spectral tailoring in photonic crystals”
2010 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Alejandro Rodriguez-Wong“Fluctuation-induced interactions and nonlinear nanophotonics”
2010 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Aristeidis Karalis“Novel photonic phenomena in nanostructured material systems with applications and mid-range efficient insensitive wireless energy-transfer”
2008 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record2007 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral
- cited by a thesis record
David Lik Chin Chan“Defects, thermal phenomena and design in photonic crystal systems”
2006 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Fei Zhou“Models for transition metal oxides and for protein design”
2006 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Matthew Hiram Evans“Nanoscale structure and transport : from atoms to devices”
2005 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record2005 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral
- cited by a thesis record
Kerwyn Casey Huang“The rise and fall of structure in physics : polaritonic photonic crystals, melting, and min-protein oscillations”
2004 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Chiyan Luo“Anomalous photon phenomena in electromagnetic crystal systems”
2004 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Michelle Lynn Povinelli“Characteristics of defect modes, slow light, and disorder in photonic crystals”
2004 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Yasha Yi“On-chip silicon based photonic structures : photonic band gap and quasi-photonic band gap materials”
2004 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Ian Appelbaum“Ballistic electrons : microscopy, spectroscopy, devices and luminescence”
2003 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Torkel Dyrbaek Engeness“Multiscale ab initio approaches to materials physics”
2003 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Evan J. Reed“Optical, electronic, and dynamical phenomena in the shock compression of condensed matter”
2003 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Dicle YeÅ illeten“Ab initio study of magnetic effects at material interfaces .”
2003 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis recordstated by Wikidata
Steven G. Johnson“Photonic crystals : from theory to practice”
2001 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record2000 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral
- cited by a thesis record
Sohrab Ismail-Beigi“New perspectives on ab initio calculation and physical insights gained through linkage to continuum theories”
2000 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Attila Mekis“Theoretical design of photonic crystal devices for integrated optical circuits”
2000 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Maksim Skorobogatiy“Numerical methods in condensed matter physics”
2000 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · master's - cited by a thesis record1999 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral
- cited by a thesis record
Shanhui Fan“Photonic crystals : theory and device applications”
1997 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Rodrigo Barbosa Capaz“Ab initio studies of semiconductors : defects, surfaces and interfaces”
1996 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Jerry C. Chen“Electromagnetic field computation and photonic band gap devices”
1996 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Kyeongjae Cho“New methods for the calculation of dynamical properties of many-particle systems”
1994 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Karl Daniel Brommer“Ab initio study of the Si(111)-(7x7) surface reconstruction : a challenge for massively parallel computation”
1993 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Tomas A Arias“New analytic and computational techniques for finite temperature condensed matter systems”
1992 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Andrew Marshall Rappe“AB initio theoretical studies of transition-metal, molecular, and photonic band-gap materials”
1992 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Karin M. Rabe“Ab initio statistical mechanics of structural phase transitions”
1987 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Alfred Douglas Stone“Localization and low temperature transport in disordered one-dimensional systems”
1983 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Robert Betts Laughlin“The structure and excitations of amorphous solids and surfaces”
1979 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral
Advisors on Wikidata1
From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.
- stated by Wikidata
Students on Wikidata5
From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.
- stated by Wikidataborn 1950
- stated by Wikidataborn 1959
- stated by Wikidataborn 1972
- stated by Wikidata
- stated by Wikidata
Teachers and mentors1
Wikidata's "student of" and "student" statements: a line of training beside the lineage, never a thesis supervision and never counted with one.
- a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision
The line above and below4 steps
The advisors of their advisors, four steps up at most, in the thesis records and on Wikidata, each kind marked; a person in both is listed once.
- 1 step up
stated by WikidataMarvin L. Cohen
- 2 steps up
stated by WikidataJames Charles Phillips
- 3 steps up
stated by WikidataMorrel H. Cohen
- 4 steps up
stated by WikidataCharles Kittel
Below them, within 3 steps, the record reaches 88 people: 64 cited by thesis records, 25 stated by Wikidata.
Education and career2
From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records. Each place opens its Wikidata item.
- undated
- undated