Chris G. Van de Walle is a professor in the Materials Department at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

He received a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University in 1986.

[1] Prior to joining UCSB in 2004, he was a principal scientist at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC).

His research interests include first-principles calculations for materials, defects and doping in semiconductors and oxides, surfaces and interfaces, and the physics of hydrogen in materials.

[2][3] Van de Walle is a Fellow of the APS, MRS, AAAS, AVS, and IEEE.