| Birth Date: | 11 October 1956 |
| Birth Place: | Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States |
| Alma Mater: | University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign Cornell University |
| Fields: | Condensed matter physics Spintronics |
| Workplaces: | University of Chicago University of California, Santa Barbara |
| Awards: | Oliver E. Buckley Prize Agilent Europhysics Prize Turnbull Lectureship Award |
David D. Awschalom (born 1956 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States)[1] is an American condensed matter experimental physicist. He is best known for his work in spintronics in semiconductors.
Awschalom graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign with a B.Sc. in physics. He received a Ph.D. in experimental physics from Cornell University.[2] [3] He is the director of the Chicago Quantum Exchange[4] and a Liew Family Professor in Molecular Engineering at the University of Chicago's Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering (PME). He previously served as the director of the California Nanosystems Institute and was a professor in the physics department at the University of California, Santa Barbara as well as an associated faculty member in the department of electrical and computer engineering. He has a Hirsch number of 96.