James Dickerson

James Dickerson received his B.A. in physics from Amherst College. He earned his M.S. and Ph. D. degrees from the State University of New York at Stony Brook in 1999 and 2002, respectively, where he studied under Emilio E. Mendez. From 2002 to 2004, Dickerson held a postdoctoral research fellowship at Columbia University, where he worked with Irving P. Herman. Thereafter, he joined the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Vanderbilt University as an Assistant Professor. In 2011, he was promoted to Associate Professor of Physics with Tenure, and in 2012, he was promoted to Associate Professor of Chemistry. In 2012, he became the Assistant Director of the Center for Functional Nanomaterials at Brookhaven National Laboratory.  In 2013, he joined the Department of Physics at Brown University as Adjunct Associate Professor. In 2017, he departed academic research and joined Consumer Reports as their first Chief Scientific Officer.