Facts: - residence: united states - prizes: fellow lindback foundation award for distinguished teaching -lrb- 2003 -rrb- danforth of center award for excellence as a teaching fellow at harvard the -lrb- 1999 -rrb- jack raper outstanding technology directions paper award american -lrb- 1999 -rrb- physical society -lrb- 2011 -rrb- - known for: graphene carbon nanotubes scanning ion-conductance microscopy molecular dymanics - fields: nanotechnology biophysics - work institutions: university delft university of technology harvard university of pennsylvania national institute for standards and technology - doctoral advisor: michael tinkham - name: a. t. charlie johnson - image size: 250px - nationality: american - website: http://www.physics.upenn.edu/people/standing-faculty/charlie-johnson http://nanophys.seas.upenn.edu/ - alma mater: stanford ph.d -rrb- university -lrb- b.s. -rrb- harvard university p -lrb- Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of a.t. charlie johnson .
alan t. charlie johnson is an american physicist , professor of physics and astronomy at the university of pennsylvania , and the director of the nano/bio interface center at the university of pennsylvania .johnson 's research spans experimental nanoscale physics , which combines nanotechnology and biophysics .his research is involved specifically in transport within nanostructures and carbon nanotubes , which revolves around graphene , dna , synthetic proteins , and other biomolecules .his research also involves the development of scanning probe techniques to measure electronic properties in nanomaterials and nanodevices .johnson is also the founding executive editor of aip advances and the co-founder of graphene frontiers , llc .