Saw Wai Hla

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. He is the recipient of the Feynman Prize in Nanotechnology (Experiment) in 2024.

Saw Wai Hla is the Falling Walls Science Breakthrough of the Year 2024 in the Physical Sciences category.