Laura H. Greene is the Chief Scientist at the National High Field Magnet Laboratory and the Francis Eppes Professor of Physics at Florida State
University (check her group's webpage). Her research is in experimental condensed matter physics,
investigating strongly correlated electron systems and focusing primarily
on revealing the mechanisms of unconventional superconductivity by planar-tunneling and point-contact electron spectroscopies, and growing and
developing methods for predictive design of new superconductors. She is recognized for her work on superconductor/semiconductor proximity effects,
elucidating the physical properties of the pure and doped high-temperature superconductors (HTS), the discovery of broken time-reversal symmetry
in HTS, and spectroscopic studies of the electronic structure in heavy-fermion metals. She is the President-Elect of the American Physical Society
(APS) and her theme in 2017 will be “Science Diplomacy” with a focus on how physics can impact human rights. In the APS she has served as Chair
of the Division of Materials Physics and co-founded their Forum on Outreach and Engaging the Public. Other service includes the Board of Directors
of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Chair of the Board of Governors of the International Institute for Complex and Adaptive
Matter, Chair-elect of both the C10 commission of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics and their US Liaison Committee, has served on
the Basic Energy Sciences Advisory Committee for the Department of Energy, the Board on Physics and Astronomy for the National Academy of Sciences,
the Board of Directors for Gordon Research Conferences, and the Sloan Fellowship Selection Committee. Greene is committed to increasing the
diversity of women and underrepresented minorities in physics and has given many COACh workshops, internationally, to increase the participation
and status of these groups in the sciences. She is also working to increase the public engagement of science, having given many public lectures
and is working to start a new journal in that area. Greene has been a visiting scientist at CNRS in Orsay, University of California at Irvine,
Trinity College at Cambridge, and is a visiting distinguished professor at Seoul National University. Her various editorial positions include
Reports on the Progress in Physics (editor-in-chief), Philosophical Transactions A, and Current Opinions in Solid State & Materials Science (COSSMS).
Greene is a member of the National Academy of Sciences; and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Institute of Physics (U.K.),
the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the American Physical Society. She has been
a Guggenheim Fellow, received the E.O. Lawrence Award for Materials Research from the U.S. Department of Energy, the Maria Goeppert-Mayer Award
from the APS, and the Bellcore Award of Excellence. She has co-authored over 200 publications and given ~500 invited talks.