After postdoctoral work at MIT (1990–1991), he became an assistant professor at the University of California, Berkeley.
[1] He is an expert on the electrical property of carbon nanotubes[2] and is a member of the National Academy of Sciences.
[3] Paul McEuen studies the electrical and mechanical properties of carbon nanotubes, scanning probe microscopy of nanostructures, molecular electronics, and applications of nanoelectronics in chemistry and biology.
[4] His group publishes their work frequently in Nature and Science,[5] and McEuen has an h-index of 90.
[6] McEuen wrote a scientific thriller, Spiral (released in 2011), in which an emeritus Cornell biology professor is murdered as part of a plot involving a biological weapon, which received positive reviews by the New York Times[7] and the Los Angeles Times.