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Raymond Chiao

Raymond Chiao
Professional Title: 
Professor Emeritus, Physics
Phone: 
(209) 228-8662
Office: 
Castle Commerce Center, Building 1200, Room 202
Lab
Education: 
Ph. D., 1965 - Massachusetts Institute of Technology
B.S., 1961 - Princeton University
Research Interests: 

Raymond Chiao is a professor jointly in the UC Merced schools of Natural Sciences and Engineering. Previously, he was a professor for 38 years at UC Berkeley, where he earned international acclaim (including the Willis E. Lamb Medal and the Einstein Prize for Laser Science) studying nonlinear and quantum optics. At UC Merced, is pursuing a new line of groundbreaking research on gravitational radiation.

Interdisciplinary/Multidisciplinary Group: 
Nanoscience