John Lambert Lyons
Email: lyonsjl@iu.edu
Office Building: Luddy Hall (700 N. Woodlawn Ave)
Room: 4060
John (Jack) Lyons joined Luddy in 2026, prior to which he worked at the US Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, DC. He has a doctorate in Materials from the University of California, Santa Barbara and a Bachelor of Science in Materials Science and Engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
His research interests include understanding the role of defects and dopants in semiconductor materials and elucidating the electronic structure of ultrawide-bandgap semiconductors and other novel electronic materials using first-principles methods.
Jack was previously awarded a LUCI Fellowship with Dr. Sasha Efros in 2018, won the NRL-Edison Sigma Xi Young Investigator Award in 2021, and was named a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 2025.
- Doctor of Philosophy in Materials at University of California, Santa Barbara, 2012
- Bachelor of Engineering in Materials Science and Engineering at University of Wisconsin, Madison, 2008
- ENGR-E 399/599 - Semiconductor Optoelectronics
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