CV
- B.Sc., Geology, Indiana University, 1979
- A.M., Geology, Harvard University, 1981
- Ph.D., Geology, Harvard University, 1985
- International Award of Ferroelectric Materials and Their Applications, FMA, May 29, 2014
- European Research Council Advanced Grant, 2013
- Dana Medal, Mineralogical Society of America, 2009
- Fellow of American Physical Society, 2002
- Fellow of American Geophysical Union, 2002
- Doornbos Memorial Prize from International Association of Seismology and Physics of the Earth’s Interior (IASPEI), 1994
- Mineralogical Society of America Award and Life Fellow, 1994
- Berman Research Publication Award, NRL, 1993
- IBM Supercomputing Competition, Second Prize in Science, 1990
- Berman Research Publication Award, NRL, 1988
- National Research Council, Research Associateship, 1985- 1987,
- National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship, 1979-1982
- U.S. Patent No. 8.039,131 B2 October 18, 2011 Class of pure piezoelectric materials
- U.S. Patent No. 8,287,831 October 16, 2012 Oxynitride Perovskites
- U. S Patent No. 8,721,915 B2 May 2014 Ordered Oxynitride Perovskites
- 1990-current: Staff Scientist, Earth and Planets Laboratory, Carnegie Institution for Science
- 2015-current: Professor, Department for Earth and Environmental Sciences, LMU Munich
- 2015-current: Honorary Professor, Department of Physics, University College London
- 2013-2015: Honorary Professor, London Centre for Nanotechnology, University College London
- 2013-2015: Professor, Department of Earth Science, University College London
- 2000-2001: Visiting Professor, Materials Science and Geophysics, California Institute of Technology
- 1988-1990: Visiting Investigator, Geophysical Laboratory, Carnegie Institution for Science
- 1987-1990: Research Physicist, Naval Research Laboratory
- 1985-1987: Research Associate, National Research Council, NRL
- Member, American Association for the Advancement of Science,
- Member, Geological Society of America,
- Member, Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma Xi
- Cohen, R.E., Origin of ferroelectricity in oxide ferroelectrics. Nature 1992. 358: p. 136-138, citations: 1763.
- H. Fu and R.E. Cohen, Polarization rotation mechanism for ultrahigh electromechanical response in single-crystal piezoelectrics, Nature 2000. 403: p. 281-283, citations: 1346.
Ferroelectures
Ronald Cohen organizes an ongoing lecture series and annual workshop.
Dr. Rama K. Vasudevan: Smart microscopy for ferroelectrics
Lane W. Martin, University of California, Berkeley: Don’t Call it a Comeback…A Case Study of BaTiO3
Hong Jian Zhao—Electric Dzyaloshinskii–Moriya-like interactions in ferro- and antiferroelectrics
Alexander Demkov—Ferroelectric thin films for integrated Si phonics
Sergey Prosandeev - Hidden phases with neuromorphic responses
Creation and Dynamics of Complex Polar Supertextures Design — Dr. Venkatraman Gopalan
Hongjun Xiang | Property analysis and simulation package for materials
Ferroelectures: Controlling ferroelectric structure with light—Dr. Charles Paillard

Dr. Rama K. Vasudevan: Smart microscopy for ferroelectrics

Lane W. Martin, University of California, Berkeley: Don’t Call it a Comeback…A Case Study of BaTiO3

Hong Jian Zhao—Electric Dzyaloshinskii–Moriya-like interactions in ferro- and antiferroelectrics

Alexander Demkov—Ferroelectric thin films for integrated Si phonics

Sergey Prosandeev - Hidden phases with neuromorphic responses

Creation and Dynamics of Complex Polar Supertextures Design — Dr. Venkatraman Gopalan

Hongjun Xiang | Property analysis and simulation package for materials

Ferroelectures: Controlling ferroelectric structure with light—Dr. Charles Paillard