Citizenship United States Fields Applied Physics Residence United Kingdom | Role Physicist Name Jason Crain | |
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Born Jason Crain
August 24, 1966 (age 57)
New York ( 1966-08-24 ) Institutions University of Edinburgh
National Physical Laboratory
IBM Alma mater Massachusetts Institute of Technology | ||
Jason Crain (born August 24, 1966) is an American physicist based in the United Kingdom. He was appointed to IBM Research in 2016 to lead new initiatives at the UK’s Hartree Centre - a largescale partnership between the UK Government and IBM to expand data science research. He previously held the Chair of Applied Physics at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland and was appointed Director of Research at the UK's National Physical Laboratory (NPL) in London (as of 2015) where he also held the role of Head of Physical Sciences (since 2007). He is also Visiting Professor at the IBM TJ Watson Research Center in New York. His background is in the structure and physics of disordered matter at the molecular scale with a view to applications.
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Early life
Born on August 24, 1966 in New York City, he obtained his undergraduate degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1989, receiving the 1988 Orloff Prize for Research.
Career
Crain was a research scientist at Fujitsu in Japan (1990) as one of the first interns of the MIT-Japan exchange programme. He obtained his PhD from the University of Edinburgh in 1993. Crain was appointed to a Royal Society of Edinburgh Research Fellowship in 1995, and then appointed to the academic staff at Edinburgh. He was elected Fellow of the Institute of Physics in 2002. He was appointed Senior Visiting Fellow at the National Nuclear Laboratory in 2015.
Works
Crain has over 150 refereed scientific publications with an h-index of 34 according to the Web of Science. His most cited publications, each with over 100 citations, are:
Press coverage
His work has been covered on BBC News on HIV research; ChemEurope on "DNA Zippers"; and Science Daily on "Electronically Coarse Grained Water" "Towards the ultimate model of water" and "Squishy transistors"