Prof. Lee Bassett
Associate Professor, University of Pennsylvania
Lee Bassett is an Associate Professor of Electrical & Systems Engineering and responsible for the Quantum Engineering Lab (http://nanoquant.seas.upenn.edu/) at the University of Pennsylvania. Following undergraduate studies at the Pennsylvania State University (BS Physics, 2004), Lee travelled to the United Kingdom as a Marshall Scholar and NSF Graduate Research Fellow to complete the MASt (Part III) in Mathematics (2005) and PhD in physics (2009) at the University of Cambridge, the latter for his work on low temperature quantum electronics in III/V semiconductor devices. From 2009-2013 he was a Hewlett Packard Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Recent honors include an NSF CAREER award (2016), the Ford Motor Company Award for Faculty Advising (2018), and participation in the National Academy of Engineering Frontiers of Engineering meeting (2018) and theGerman-American Frontiers of Engineering meeting (2021).