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{{Short description|American materials physicist at UC Santa Barbara}}
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| citizenship       = US, Belgian
| nationality       = Belgian
| fields            = [[Condensed matter physics]]<br>[[Materials science]]
| workplaces        = [http://www.ucsb.edu/ University of California, Santa Barbara],
| doctoral_advisor  = Richard Martin
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| known_for         = {{no wrap|First-principles calculations for materials}}<br>[[Model solid approximation]]
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| awards            = [[Aneesur Rahman Prize]] (2025)<br>[[Medard W. Welch Award]] (2013)<br>[[David Adler Lectureship Award]]  (2002)<br>[[Humboldt Research Award]] (1998)
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'''Chris G. Van de Walle''' is a professor in the Materials Department at the [[University of California, Santa Barbara]].  He received a Ph.D. in [[Electrical Engineering]] from [[Stanford University]] in 1986.<ref>{{cite web|url =  http://www.mrl.ucsb.edu/~vandewalle/cv.php|title = Van de Walle Computational Materials Group : Curriculum Vitae}} Retrieved 19 June 2013</ref> Prior to joining UCSB in 2004, he was a Principal Scientist at the [[Xerox Palo Alto Research Center]] (PARC).  His research interests include first-principles calculations for materials, defects and doping in semiconductors and oxides, surfaces and interfaces, and the physics of hydrogen in materials.<ref>{{cite web|url =  https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=jY5B7zkAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=sra|title = Google Scholar}} Retrieved 22 November 2013</ref><ref>{{cite web|url =  http://engineering.ucsb.edu/faculty/profile/186|title =  UCSB Faculty profile|url-status =  dead|archiveurl =  https://web.archive.org/web/20131202224811/http://engineering.ucsb.edu/faculty/profile/186|archivedate =  2013-12-02}} Retrieved 22 November 2013</ref> Van de Walle is a Fellow of the [[American Physical Society|APS]], [[Materials Research Society|MRS]], [[American Association for the Advancement of Science|AAAS]], [[American Vacuum Society|AVS]], and [[IEEE]].  He is the recipient of a Humboldt Research Award for Senior US Scientist, the [[Medard W. Welch Award]],<ref>{{cite web|url =  http://www2.avs.org/symposium/AVS60/pages/majawards.html|title =  Medard W. Welch Award|url-status =  dead|archiveurl =  https://web.archive.org/web/20131203000045/http://www2.avs.org/symposium/AVS60/pages/majawards.html|archivedate =  2013-12-03}} Retrieved 22 November 2013</ref> and the [[David Adler Lectureship Award in the Field of Materials Physics]] from the APS.
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