Phaedon Avouris (Greek: Φαίδων Αβούρης; born 1945) is a Greek chemical physicist and materials scientist.^[1] He is an IBM Fellow, and was formerly the group leader for Nanometer Scale Science and Technology at the Thomas J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, New York.^[2] His group conducted early work on carbon nanotubes, including the production of the first nanotube transistors.^[3]

Phaedon Avouris was born in 1945 in Athens, Greece.^[1] In 1968, he graduated from the Aristotle University in Thessaloniki, Greece, with a BSc in chemistry. Following his postdoctoral work at the University of California, Los Angeles, he went to Michigan State University in 1974 and received a Ph.D in physical chemistry.^[1] He was an adjunct research professor at Columbia University NY in 2003^[4] and in 2016 he was appointed an Adjunct Research Professor in the ECE department at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. ^[1]

Phaedon Avouris was elected as a member of the National Academy of Sciences in 2017,^[5] the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2003,^[6] the Academy of Athens, Greece (Corresponding member) in 2007,^[7] and the IBM Academy of Technology in 2004.

He was also appointed a Fellow in the following scientific societies: the American Physical Society (APS) in 1987; Institute of Physics (U.K.) in 2004; Institute of Electronic and Electrical Engineers (IEEE) in 2014; American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 1996; Materials Research Society (MRS) in 2011; American Vacuum Society (AVS) in 1997; World Technology Network (1999). For his work, Avouris has received many awards from various scientific institutions, including the following:

• Irving Langmuir Prize for Chemical Physics, American Physical Society, 2003^[8]
• Medard W. Welch Award for Surface Science, American Vacuum Society, 1997^[9]
• IEEE Nanotechnology Section, Nanotechnology Pioneer Award, 2010^{[10][circular reference]}
• Richard Feynman Prize for Nanotechnology, Foresight Institute, 1999^[11]
• Julius Springer Prize for Applied Physics (with T. Heinz), 2008
• MRS David Turnbull Lectureship, Materials Research Society, 2011^[12]
• Richard E. Smalley Prize of the Electrochemical Society, 2009
• H. Bloch Medal, Excellence of Research in Industry, Univ. of Chicago, 2015
• IBM Exceptional Achievement Corporate Award, 2011
• Outstanding Technical Achievement Awards, IBM Corporation, 1989, 1993, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2013, 2015
• Honorary Doctorate, International Hellenic University, 2013
• Member of the National Academy of Sciences, 2017^[13]
• Distinguished Alumnus Award, Michigan State University, 2001

• Avouris, Phaedon (1 March 1995). "Manipulation of Matter at the Atomic and Molecular Levels". Accounts of Chemical Research. 28 (3): 95–102. doi:10.1021/ar00051a002. ISSN 0001-4842.
• Avouris, Phaedon (1 January 2009). "Carbon nanotube electronics and photonics". Physics Today. 62 (1): 34–40. Bibcode:2009PhT....62a..34A. doi:10.1063/1.3074261. ISSN 0031-9228.
• Weiss, Paul S. (28 December 2010). "A Conversation with Dr. Phaedon Avouris: Nanoscience Leader". ACS Nano. 4 (12): 7041–7047. doi:10.1021/nn1032032. ISSN 1936-0851. PMID 21186842.
• Avouris, Phaedon; Freitag, Marcus; Perebeinos, Vasili (2008). "Carbon-nanotube photonics and optoelectronics". Nature Photonics. 2 (6): 341–350. Bibcode:2008NaPho...2..341A. doi:10.1038/nphoton.2008.94. ISSN 1749-4885.
• Avouris, Phaedon; Dimitrakopoulos, Christos (2012). "Graphene: synthesis and applications". Materials Today. 15 (3): 86–97. doi:10.1016/S1369-7021(12)70044-5.
• Xia, Fengnian; Yan, Hugen; Avouris, Phaedon (2013). "The Interaction of Light and Graphene: Basics, Devices, and Applications". Proceedings of the IEEE. 101 (7): 1717–1731. doi:10.1109/JPROC.2013.2250892. ISSN 0018-9219.
• Low, Tony; Avouris, Phaedon (31 January 2014). "Graphene Plasmonics for Terahertz to Mid-Infrared Applications". ACS Nano. 8 (2): 1086–1101. arXiv:1403.2799. doi:10.1021/nn406627u. ISSN 1936-0851. PMID 24484181.

• Nanometer Scale Science and Technology Group Homepage
• Irving Langmuir Prize
• Academy of Athens
• Feynman Prize Recipients, Foresight Nanotech Institute