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James Freericks, Professor of Physics, has been at Georgetown University since 1994. He was trained in Physics as an undergraduate at Princeton University (A.B. 1985, summa cum laude) and as a graduate student at the University of California, Berkeley (MA 1987, Ph.D. 1991) working with Leo Falicov. He did postdoctoral fellowships at the Institute for Theoretical Physics at the University of California, Santa Barbara (1991--93, with Doug Scalapino) and at the University of California, Davis (1993--94, with Richard Scalettar). His work ranges from mathematical physics, to developing computational methods for the many-body problem, to working on "ab initio" calculations in real materials. He has been awarded the Kusaka Memorial Prize in Physics from Princeton University (1985), the Oak Ridge Associated Universities, Junior Faculty Enhancement Award (1995), the Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Program award (1996), the Georgetown University Distinguished Achievement in Research award (2007), and the Alpha Sigma Nu National Book Award for the Natural Sciences (2009). He has been a Fellow of the American Physical Society from the Division of Condensed Matter Physics since 2006. In 2010, he was named the inaugural holder of the McDevitt Chair in Physics at Georgetown.