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Ohio University and Argonne National Laboratory
Saw Wai Hla
- 2024
- Participant
- Physical Sciences
Saw Wai Hla is a professor of physics at Ohio University and a physicist at the Argonne National Laboratory. He is also the director of the Nanoscale and Quantum Phenomena Institute, Ohio University's largest interdisciplinary institute. He is a world-leading researcher in atomic and molecular manipulation on material surfaces and synchrotron x-ray studies of individual atoms. His research focuses on nano and quantum properties of materials, in particular molecular machines and rare-earth molecular systems for energy applications.
Saw Wai Hla is a 2024 Falling Walls Winner in the Physical Sciences category.