He is a distinguished professor of physics and holds the Bernd T. Matthias Chair in the physics department at the University of California, San Diego, and conducts research at the university's Center for Advanced Nanoscience.
[1] His primary research interest is condensed matter physics, involving phenomena like magnetism and superconductivity.
In addition to his work at UCSD he was a Bernd T. Matthias Scholar in the Center for Materials Science at Los Alamos National Laboratory (1993).
[6] The session, which was added to the agenda at the last minute, dealt with newly discovered high temperature superconductors.
[7] Maple also presided over a 20th-anniversary recognition and review of the famous session, held at the American Physical Society's 2007 meeting in Denver.