Michael Fuhrer joined IREAP in August 2007. He is an Associate Professor in the Department of Physics and the Center for Nanophysics and Advanced Materials and the Associate Director of Maryland NanoCenter. He received a B.S. in physics from the University of Texas at Austin in 1990 and a Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley in 1998 after doing research on electronic and thermal transport in High-T_c and fullerene superconductors with Prof. Alex Zettl. Professor Fuhrer remained at Berkeley as a postdoctoral researcher with Profs. Alex Zettl and Paul McEuen, working on electronic transport in carbon nanotube devices.

Prof. Fuhrer is pursuing research on carbon nanotube electronic devices, molecular electronics, and novel two-dimensional electronic nanostructures, such as single sheets of graphite ("graphene") and layered transition metal dichalcogenides. Prof. Fuhrer studied the first carbon nanotube heterojunctions, demonstrated the first carbon-nanotube-based single-electron memory device, and showed that the room-temperature mobility in semiconducting carbon nanotubes is the highest of any semiconductor.