American Physical Society, USA
Sarma obtained his Ph.D. at Rutgers University in 2002, working in theoretical condensed matter physics (strongly correlated systems). He undertook postdoctoral research at Université de Sherbrooke in Québec, Canada and Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee on topics such as superconductivity, doped Mott insulators, and metal-insulator transitions. He joined PRB in 2007 and became its Chief Editor in 2024.
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Stephen E. Nagler received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in physics from the University of Toronto. He served two years as a visiting scientist at the IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, New York, and joined the physics faculty at the University of Florida in 1984. In 1995 he moved to Tennessee, where currently he is an Emeritus Corporate Research Fellow of the Oak Ridge National Laboratory and a Research Professor at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. At Oak Ridge, his primary research interests have been quantum magnetism and correlated electron systems. He was named ORNL Scientist of the Year in 1998 and fellow of the American Physical Society in 2000. Nagler served two terms as a Divisional Associate Editor of Physical Review Letters. He joined Physical Review B as Lead Editor in 2023.
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Yonko Millev, EditorAmerican Physical Society, USA Yonko received his Ph.D. degree in condensed matter physics from the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, where later he became a senior research associate after holding a teaching position at TU Sofia. He did research at ICTP in Trieste and Queen’s University of Belfast. A Humboldt Fellowship enabled a long-term collaboration with the Max Planck Institutes in Stuttgart, Leipzig, and in Halle, where he was a staff scientist. His research interests are in magnetism, phase transitions, and mathematical physics. Yonko joined PRL in 2003 before moving to PRB in 2017. |
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Ashot Melikyan, Senior EditorAmerican Physical Society, USA Ashot received a B.S. from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology and a Ph.D. from the Johns Hopkins University, working in theoretical condensed matter physics. His postdoctoral research at the University of Florida and the Argonne National Laboratory revolved primarily around high-temperature superconductivity and mesoscopic physics. He joined PRB in 2008. |
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Manolis Antonoyiannakis, Senior Associate Editor and Bibliostatistics AnalystAmerican Physical Society, USA Manolis received his Ph.D. from Imperial College London for work on electromagnetic forces in photonic crystals. He began his editorial career at Crete University Press before joining APS in 2003, working in Physical Review B, Physical Review Letters, and Physical Review X. He also spent an 18-month sabbatical as scientific advisor to the President of the European Research Council. Since 2026, he has split his time between Physical Review Applied and Physical Review B. Manolis also serves as the APS bibliostatistics analyst, with interests in research assessment, statistically principled indicators, and peer review dynamics. |
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Anthony M. Begley, Senior Associate EditorAmerican Physical Society, USA Tony is a graduate of the University of Birmingham, UK, completing his Ph.D. in condensed matter physics in 1990, involving research into the electronic structure of rare-earth metals at Birmingham and at the Daresbury Laboratory, UK. His postdoctoral research, based at SUNY Stony Brook and partly at Brookhaven National Laboratory, was focused on the structure of ultrathin metal films. Tony joined PRB in 1993. He also serves as Lead Editorial Data Analyst for the American Physical Society. |
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Paul Snijders, Senior Associate EditorAmerican Physical Society, USA Paul received his M.Sc. in Materials Science and Technology at the Delft University of Technology in The Netherlands working on the characterization of the structure of ultrathin disordered oxide films using photoelectron spectroscopy. He received his Ph.D. at the Kavli Institute of Nanoscience at the Delft University of Technology studying electronic instabilities and structural fluctuations in self-assembled atom wires. He worked as a Wigner Fellow and research staff member at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory for ten years before joining PRB in 2017. |
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Victor Vakaryuk, Senior Associate EditorAmerican Physical Society, USA Victor received his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Argonne National Lab and at Johns Hopkins University. His research topics include exotic superconductivity, graphene, and transport in nanostructures. He joined PRB in 2013. |
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Ana Akrap, Associate EditorUniversity of Zagreb, Croatia Ana received her MSc from the University of Zagreb, Croatia, and her Ph.D. from the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland. She spent two years as a postdoc at Brookhaven National Laboratory, and later worked at the University of Geneva. She was an associate professor at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland before becoming a Professor at the University of Zagreb. Her main research interest is in magneto-optical and infrared spectroscopy of topological materials. |
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Emil Bozin, Associate EditorInstitute of Physics Belgrade, Serbia Emil is a Senior Physicist and European Research Area Chair at the Institute of Physics Belgrade. He earned his Ph.D. from Michigan State University (2003), studying nanoscale fluctuations in high-Tc cuprates. After serving as a Research Scientist at Columbia University, he joined Brookhaven National Laboratory, progressing through the ranks (2010–2025). His research interests include hierarchical atomic structure and nanoscale fluctuations in quantum materials, particularly hidden and emergent states in unconventional superconductors, charge density wave materials, and metal–insulator transition systems. A recipient of numerous distinctions, including the Science Prize of the Neutron Scattering Society of America, he is internationally recognized for advancing X-ray and neutron total scattering methods and strengthening large-scale research facility user communities. |
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Roberta Caruso, Associate EditorAmerican Physical Society, USA Roberta received her Ph.D. in 2018 from University of Naples Federico II, where she worked on the transport characterization of unconventional Josephson devices. She remained at the University of Naples until 2020, focusing on the transport properties of 2DEG interfaces. She then moved to Brookhaven National Laboratory to work on cuprate superconductors. After a short appointment as Associate Editor at Nature Communications, she joined PRL and PRB in 2024. |
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Jerry I. Dadap, Jr., Associate EditorUniversity of British Columbia, Canada Jerry received his Ph.D. in physics from the University of Texas at Austin. Following his postdoctoral research at Columbia University and a brief period in the telecom industry, where he worked on optical switching via micro-electromechanical systems, he returned to Columbia as a research scientist. He later moved to the University of British Columbia, where he now serves as a senior research scientist. His research focuses on the electronic structure and optical properties of 2D materials, surfaces, and strongly correlated systems, as well as nonlinear optics, integrated photonics, and ultrafast phenomena. He served as an Associate Editor for Optics Express from 2011 to 2015 and is currently an Associate Editor for Physical Review B (since 2015) and Physical Review Letters (since 2024). |
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Nicolas Doiron-Leyraud, Associate EditorUniversity of Sherbrooke, Canada Nicolas completed his Ph.D. at the University of Cambridge in 2003, having worked on strongly correlated materials at the Cavendish Laboratory. He was then awarded a Junior Research Fellowship to pursue postdoctoral work at Cambridge. In 2004 he moved to the Université de Sherbrooke in Canada where he took up a research associate position, working chiefly on high-temperature superconductors and quantum magnets. He is now advising the Québec government on quantum technologies and joined PRB as an Associate Editor in 2021. |
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Keith Gilmore, Associate EditorAmerican Physical Society, USA Keith completed his Ph.D. in physics on the topic of magnetization dynamics at Montana State University and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). He then held postdoctoral fellowships at NIST and Lawrence Berkeley National Lab before becoming a faculty member within the Nanoscience Department of Soochow University in Suzhou, China. He was subsequently a staff scientist at the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility in Grenoble, France, and at Brookhaven National Lab. His research interests center around first-principles, many-body calculations for condensed matter systems with a particular emphasis on spectroscopy. Keith joined PRB in 2022. |
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Jason T. Haraldsen, Associate EditorUniversity of North Florida, USA Jason received his B.S. in chemistry and physics from Kutztown University of Pennsylvania and his Ph.D. in theoretical condensed matter physics from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. He worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Oak Ridge and Los Alamos National Laboratories. Jason is currently a Professor at the University of North Florida, working on understanding complex material interactions, including magnetic and multiferroic excitations in oxides and quantum materials. He joined PRB in 2015 as an Associate Editor. |
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Robert M. Konik, Associate EditorBrookhaven National Laboratory, USA Robert received his B.Sc. from the University of Calgary and his Ph.D. from Cornell University. He works on the theory of strongly correlated systems and is currently the Chair of the Condensed Matter Physics & Materials Science Department at Brookhaven National Laboratory. |
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Junjie Li , Associate EditorAmerican Physical Society, USA Junjie Li received his M.S. in optics in 2005 from Wuhan University and earned a Ph.D. in condensed matter physics in 2011 from Florida State University. He worked as a Research Associate at the University of Illinois, followed by a postdoctoral research associate position at Brookhaven National Laboratory. Later, he was converted to a Staff Scientist at Brookhaven. With a strong background in experimental materials physics, optics, and instrumentation, Junjie joined the Physical Review family of journals in 2023. |
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Awadhesh Narayan, Associate EditorIndian Institute of Science, India Awadhesh is an assistant professor at the Indian Institute of Science. He obtained his Ph.D. (2015) from Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, where his dissertation won the Dan Bradley prize. After postdoctoral appointments at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA and ETH Zurich, Switzerland, he joined the Indian Institute of Science in 2019. He was selected as an outstanding referee of the American Physical Society in 2023. His research interests are in condensed matter and materials theory, including topological phases, ferroic materials, and non-Hermitian systems. He joined PRB in 2024 as an Associate Editor. |
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Bradley Rubin, Associate EditorAmerican Physical Society, USA Brad received a B.S. from the University of Maryland in College Park and a Ph.D. in physics from Columbia University in 1990 (high-energy physics). He subsequently held research positions at NASA in Huntsville, Alabama and the Riken Institute in Japan. He joined PRB in 1999. |
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Daniel Shaffer, Associate EditorAmerican Physical Society, USA Daniel earned a Ph.D. in physics from the University of Minnesota in 2020 following a Summa Cum Laude double-degree in electrical engineering and physics/mathematics from Boston University. Daniel’s research focused on the theory of superconducting quantum devices, such as Josephson diodes, unconventional superconductors, open quantum systems, and quantum information. He joined PRB in 2026. |
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Hari Srikanth, Associate EditorUniversity of South Florida, USA Hari received his Ph.D. in experimental condensed matter physics from the Indian Institute of Science in 1994. After several years of postdoctoral research he joined the University of South Florida in 2000 as an Assistant Professor. He is currently a Distinguished University Professor at USF and directs the Functional Materials Laboratory. Hari’s research interests are in magnetic materials, nanomagnetism, spintronics, multiferroics, multicalorics, and correlated materials. He is a Fellow of the APS and IOP. Hari joined PRB in 2021 as an Associate Editor. |
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Liliana ArracheaUniversity of Buenos Aires, Argentina Liliana Arrachea obtained her Ph.D. from Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina, in 1995. Since then, her research positions have included Alexander von Humboldt fellow at the Free University of Berlin and the Max Planck Institute, Germany, postdoctoral researcher at SISSA, Italy, and Ramón y Cajal Researcher at the University of Zaragoza, Spain. She has been a professor at Universidad de La Plata (2008–2019), at the University of Buenos Aires since 2007 (on leave since 2016), and at the University of San Martín, Argentina, since 2016. She was also a visiting professor at PUC-Rio, Brazil , Université Paris 7, France, and at Boston University. She was appointed a Guggenheim Fellow in 2010, a Simons Associate at ICTP (2015–2021), and received a GeorgForster Research Award in 2016 from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. She is a CONICET researcher at Instituto de Nanociencia y Nanotecnología, Centro Atómico Bariloche, Argentina. |
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Ajit C. BalramThe Institute Of Mathematical Sciences (IMSc), India Ajit is a member of the theoretical physics department at The Institute Of Mathematical Sciences (IMSc), Chennai. He received his B.S. and M.S. in science (specializing in physics) from the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER), Puneand received his Ph.D. from Pennsylvania State University. His thesis, carried out under the supervision of Prof. J. K. Jain, was awarded the Alumni Association dissertation award. Ajit interests lie in the equilibrium and out-of-equilibrium properties of strongly interacting quantum many-body systems such as the ones that arise in the fractional quantum Hall effect and spin liquids. |
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Denis BaskoCNRS, France Denis received his M.S. from Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology in 1997 and Ph.D. in physics from Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa in 2000. He has worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Rochester, International Centre for Theoretical Physics in Trieste, Princeton University and Columbia University in New York. In 2008 he joined the French Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in Grenoble, where he is working on the theory of non-equilibrium/relaxation phenomena and quantum transport in normal and superconducting nanostructures and other low-dimensional systems. |
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Henri BenistyUniversity of Paris–Saclay, France After training in solid state physics in 1984, Henri Benisty completed his Ph.D. at the Condensed Matter Physics Laboratory (PMC) at Ecole Polytechnique Palaiseau, France, followed by a postdoc at Thales TRT. He lectured at University of Versailles Saint-Quentin from 1991 to 2002. During this period, he worked on light confinement and extraction using wavelength-scale structures, especially microcavities and two-dimensional photonic crystals. Since 2002, he is a professor at the Institut d'Optique Graduate School, University of Paris –Saclay, in the Nanophotonics group of the Charles Fabry, with interest in parity-time symmetry and metasurfaces in integrated photonics, and in non-hermitian complex systems. |
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Emil J. BergholtzStockholm University, Sweden Emil J. Bergholtz is Professor of Theoretical Physics and Wallenberg Scholar at Stockholm University. He received his Ph.D. from Stockholm University in 2008, with a thesis on one-dimensional descriptions of quantum Hall systems. His research focuses on collective phenomena in quantum many-body systems, especially topological phases, fractional Chern insulators, moiré quantum materials, and non-Hermitian physics. He was previously a PKS Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems in Dresden and an Emmy Noether Group Leader in Berlin. His honors include the 2022 Göran Gustafsson Prize in Physics from the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. |
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Elizabeth BlackburnLund University, Sweden Elizabeth received her doctorate from the Université Joseph-Fourier in Grenoble, France, working on magnetism and superconductivity in strongly correlated electron materials. She worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of California, San Diego, then joined the physics faculty at the University of Birmingham, UK, before joining Lund University. She was awarded the Institute of Physics’ Henry Moseley Medal in 2014. In 2018, she took up a professorship at Lund University, Sweden, where her work focuses on the study of magnetic and superconducting materials, primarily using neutron and x-ray scattering. |
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Alexey ChernikovTechnische Universität Dresden, Germany Alexey Chernikov obtained his doctoral degree at the University of Marburg, Germany, studying optical properties of semiconducting materials and external cavity semiconducting lasers in 2012. In 2013, he was granted a Feodor-Lynen Fellowship from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation to conduct his postdoctoral research on Coulomb phenomena in atomically-thin 2D systems in the group of Tony F. Heinz at Columbia University, New York. Alexey joined TU Dresden, Germany, in 2021 as a full professor. His research is focused on studying and understanding electronic and optical many-particle phenomena in low-dimensional systems. He is a recipient of the Emmy Noether Research Grant, Heinz-Maier Leibnitz Prize of the German Science Foundation, and ERC Consolidator Grant. |
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Hugo DilPaul Scherrer Institute, Switzerland Hugo Dil is adjunct professor at the Institute of Physics at the EPFL, Switzerland, and the Paul Scherrer Institute,Switzerland. After finishing his studies at the Delft University of Technology, Netherlands, he obtained his Ph.D. in 2006 at the Fritz Haber Institute, Germany, studying quantum size effects in thin metal films. In 2014 he was awarded the Heinrich Rohrer Rising Medal, and, in 2015, the University Latis Prize. In his experimental research he focuses on the role of the electron spin in the electronic structure of materials with broken symmetries and strong interactions. |
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Defang DuanJilin University, China Dr. Defang Duan is a Professor in the college of physics at Jilin University. She received her Ph.D. degree in condensed matter physics in 2011 from Jilin University and served one year as a visiting scientist at University of Cambridge in 2018. She received the 2015 China Top Ten Youth Science and Technology Award. She research focuses on the crystal structures, electronic structures and exotic superconductivity of condensed matters under high pressure, including hydrides, borides and 2D materials. |
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Wenhui DuanTsinghua University, China Wenhui Duan is a professor of physics at Tsinghua University, China. He received his Ph.D. in theoretical condensed matter physics from Tsinghua University in 1992. His research interests are in theoretical and computational study of quantum material systems. He is an Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and a Fellow of the American Physical Society and of The World Academy of Sciences. |
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Antonio I. Fernández DomínguezUniversidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain Antonio I. Fernández Domínguez has been an associate professor at Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM), Spain, since 2019. He obtained his Ph.D. from UAMin 2009 and was a Marie Curie Fellow at Imperial College London until 2014. He then joined UAM as a Ramón y Cajal Fellow. He is a condensed matter theorist whose research focuses on quantum nanophotonics and light-matter interactions at the nanoscale. |
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Yann GallaisUniversité Paris Cité, France Yann Gallais is a professor of physics at Université Paris Cité, France. He obtained his Ph.D. in 2003 from ESPCI-Paris and Sorbonne Université. He was a postdoctoral fellow at Columbia University before joining Université Paris Cité in 2007. His research focuses on quantum materials including unconventional superconductors, magnets, and 2D materials, which he studies via spectroscopic techniques in both static and ultrafast settings. |
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Li GeCity University of New York, USA Li Ge is a Professor of Physics at the City University of New York (CUNY), affiliated with the College of Staten Island (CSI) and the CUNY Graduate Center. He obtained his Ph.D. in physics from Yale University in 2010 and was a postdoctoral associate at Princeton before joining CUNY in 2013. He received an National Science Foundation CAREER award in 2019 and a Dolphin Award for Outstanding Scholarly Achievements from CSI in 2023. He was elected a fellow of Optica (formerly the Optical Society of America) in 2024. His current research interest includes quantum-inspired symmetries and topologies in non-Hermitian systems as well as laser physics in complex and random media. |
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Er-Jia GuoChinese Academy of Sciences, China Er-Jia Guo holds the position of full professor at the Institute of Physics (IOP), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), and serves as an adjunct professor at the University of CAS. He received his Ph..D from IOP, CAS, then worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Martin Luther University at Halle-Wittenberg, Mainz University, and Oak Ridge National Laboratory. His research interest is focused on the quantum phenomena at correlated heterogeneity interfaces, including oxides, nitrides, and other low-dimensional materials. His prolific contributions to the field are evident in over 160 published journal articles and over 30 invited talks. |
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Matthew HastingsMicrosoft, USA Matthew Hastings works on the quantum program at Microsoft. He received his Ph.D. in 1997 from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in soft matter physics with Leonid Levitov and later moved to hard condensed matter physics. He is currently interested in quantum information and computation and in mathematical physics. |
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Igor HerbutSimon Fraser University, Canada Igor Herbut is a professor of physics at Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada. After receiving his Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University in 1995, he spent three years as a Killam postdoctoral fellow at the University of British Columbia. He is interested in field theories of interacting electrons, higher-spin pairing and multicomponent superconductivity, and physics of semimetals such as graphene and half-Heusler compounds. He is an author of a graduate textbook on critical phenomena published by the Cambridge University Press, a Fellow of the American Physical Society, and a recipient of the Marko Jaric Award for 2017. He was also awarded the Dresden Physics Prize, given by Max Planck Institute MPI PKS and the Technical University, Dresden, in 2025. |
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Philip HofmannAarhus University, Denmark Philip Hofmann is a condensed matter experimental physicist, a professor at Aarhus University in Denmark, and the Scientific Director of the synchrotron radiation source ASTRID2. He received his Ph.D. from the Fritz-Haber-Institute in Germany in 1994, focusing on surface structural determination using x-ray photoelectron diffraction. He is currently interested in time- and angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES) on quantum materials, particularly in performing ARPES with high spatial resolution in nonequilibrium situations. He is also working again with x-ray photoelectron diffraction but now on the ultrafast time scale using the new free-electron laser sources. He was elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 2022. |
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Yasir IqbalIndian Institute of Technology Madras, India Yasir received his M.Sc from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras and Ph.D. from University of Toulouse, France. He conducted his postdoctoral research at the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), Trieste and University of Würzburg, Germany, before joining as faculty at the physics department of IIT Madras in 2017. He is a Simons associate of the ICTP and Faculty associate of the International Centre for Theoretical Sciences, Bangalore. His research spans topics in frustrated magnetism centered around spin liquids, symmetry classification schemes, and development and application of numerical quantum many-body approaches. |
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Marcelo JaimeLos Alamos National Laboratory, USA Marcelo Jaime earned his Ph.D. in Physics from the Instituto Balseiro, Bariloche, Argentina, in 1994. From 1995 to 1999, he held postdoctoral positions at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he studied colossal magnetoresistance compounds (manganites), and at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), where he developed calorimetric techniques to study magnetism, superconductivity, and quantum phase transitions in strongly correlated electron materials in cryogenic environments and very pulsed magnetic fields up to 60 Tesla. From 2000 to 2023, Marcelo was a staff scientist at LANL's Pulsed Magnetic Field Facility, where he pioneered techniques to measure quantum materials' properties in magnetic fields up to 150 Tesla. His contributions earned him several awards, including the LANL LAAP Teamwork Award (1999), the James J. Christensen Memorial Award (2007), and the LANL Distinguished Performance Award (2012). A Fellow of both the AAAS and APS, Marcelo served a 4-year leadership term (2021–2024) with the APS Topical Group on Magnetism and its Applications. In 2023, he joined the APS Physical Review B Editorial Board and became a scientist at the Physikalisch Technische Bundesanstalt (German Metrology Institute) in Braunschweig, Germany. Marcelo has published nearly 200 peer-reviewed papers in experimental solid-state physics, with over 13,000 citations and an h-index of 52 (according to Google). |
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Steve JohnstonUniversity of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA Steve obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Waterloo in 2010 for work on electron-phonon interactions in strongly correlated electron systems. He was then a postdoctoral fellow at the Leibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials Research in Dresden, Germany (2010–2012) and the University of British Columbia (2012–2013) before joining the faculty at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, where he is currently the Bains Professor of Physics & Astronomy. Steve has broad expertise in computational methods, and his current research interests are in strongly correlated systems, electron-phonon interactions, and model spectroscopic probes such as resonant inelastic x-ray scattering. He is also the primary investigator for the SmoQy Suite of many-body codes. |
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Andreas KnorrTechnical University of Berlin, Germany Since 2000, Andreas Knorr has been a professor at the Technical University of Berlin. He received his Ph.D. at the Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena 1993 and then worked at the University of New Mexico and the University of Arizona (College of Optical Sciences) as a fellow of the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes. He worked at the universities in Goettingen and Marburg and was a visitor at Sandia National Labs Albuquerque, NTT Tokyo and Queens University in Ontario, Canada. Andreas served as a Divisional Associate Editor of the Editorial Board of Physical Review Letters from 2013 to 2018 and is currently a Stephenson Distinguished Visitor at the Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY. He works in the field of ultrafast nonlinear optics and quantum electronics of nanostructured solids. His research is focused on the interaction of light and matter in semiconductors, self-consistent solutions of Maxwell- and material equations and many body effects in open quantum systems. |
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Lucas LindsayOak Ridge National Laboratory Lucas Lindsay received his B.S. in physics from the College of Charleston in 2004 and his Ph.D. in physics from Boston College in 2010. He taught physics for two years at Christopher Newport University before joining the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory as a National Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow. He has been a research scientist in the Materials Science and Technology Division at Oak Ridge National Laboratory since 2014. He received the Department of Energy Early Career Award in 2019. His general research interests lie in the theoretical description of vibrational and transport properties of condensed matter. |
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Markus MorgensternRWTH Aachen University, Germany Markus Morgenstern has been a full professor at RWTH Aachen University since 2004. He uses scanning tunneling spectroscopy down to 400 mK in magnetic fields up to 14 T and angle-resolved photoelectron spectroscopy at mm spatial resolution. With these methods, he probes van der Waals materials such as magnetic 2D materials and graphene, as well as topological insulator materials, including magnetic ones. He also develops novel instruments, such as scanning tunneling microscopes operating with cryogen-free cooling. He received his Ph.D. in 1996 at the Research Center Jülich and the Walter Schottky Prize of the German Physical Society in 2004. He currently also serves on the review board of the German Science Foundation. |
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Titus NeupertUniversity of Zurich, Switzerland Titus Neupert is an associate professor of theoretical physics and co-director of the Digital Society Initiative at the University of Zurich, Switzerland. He obtained his Ph.D. in 2013 from ETH Zurich, followed by a postdoctoral fellowship at the Princeton Center for Theoretical Science, Princeton University. His research interests are centered around topological states of matter and unconventional superconductors, spanning from material-realistic numerical modeling to effective theories of strongly correlated states. Titus has received the Klung-Wilhelmy Science Award and is a Clarivate Highly Cited Researcher (2020–2023). |
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Beth NowadnickUniversity of California, Merced, USA Beth Nowadnick is an assistant professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of California, Merced. Her research group uses a combination of group theoretic symmetry analysis, density functional theory, and microscopic models to understand and predict the properties of complex oxide materials. She obtained her B.S. and Ph.D., both in physics, from Stanford University and was a postdoctoral researcher at Cornell University. |
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Nicolae C. PanoiuUniversity College London, United Kingdom Nicolae C. Panoiu is Professor of Nanophotonics in the Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, University College London. He received the B.Sc. and M.S. degrees in physics from the University of Bucharest, Romania, in 1990 and 1992, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree from New York University, in 2001. After graduation he joined the Department of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics at Columbia University as a Postdoctoral Fellow and later on as Research Scientist. While at Columbia University, he worked on the optical properties of nonlinear photonic crystals, nonlinear optics, plasmonic systems, metamaterials, and the theory of pulse propagation in silicon photonic nanowires. His current research interests include topological photonics, silicon photonics, optical properties of photonic nanostructures, classical and quantum metamaterials, and computational modeling of electromagnetic structures. He has been Associate Editor for Optics Express and Optical Materials Express and is currently Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology (TNANO) and Chief Editor of Nanophotonics section of Frontiers in Nanotechnology. |
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Tanusri Saha-DasguptaS. N. Bose National Centre, India Saha-Dasgupta is Senior Professor and Director at S. N. Bose National Centre, India. She received her Ph.D. from Calcutta University in 1995. She was a postdoctoral fellow at ONERA, Paris; CNRS, Cergy-Pontoise, France; Max Planck Institute in Stuttgart, Germany; and the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. She is a fellow of the American Physical Society, The World Academy of Sciences, the Indian National Academy of Sciences, the Indian Academy of Sciences, and the National Academy of Sciences, India. She is a national J. C. Bose fellow, and headed the Max Planck India Partner Group. Her research is devoted to understanding the physics and chemistry of novel and complex materials through computation. |
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Pascal SimonUniversity Paris-Saclay, France Pascal is a professor in physics at the University Paris-Saclay. He received his Ph.D. in theoretical physics in 1998 from the University Paris Sud. After several postdoctoral appointments, he was appointed assistant professor in University Joseph Fourier (Grenoble) before moving to a full professorship in Orsay in 2008. His research interests are in condensed matter theory, including topological phases, superconductivity, quantum transport, etc. |
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Can-Li SongTsinghua University, China Can-Li Song earned his Ph.D. in Physics from Tsinghua University, China, in 2011, specializing in experimental condensed matter physics and surface science. He was subsequently awarded the Lawrence Golub Postdoctoral Fellowship and conducted postdoctoral research in the Department of Physics at Harvard University. In 2014, he joined the Department of Physics at Tsinghua University, where he is currently a tenured Associate Professor. His research interests include high-temperature superconductivity, strongly correlated electron systems, topological quantum materials, molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) growth of low-dimensional quantum materials and heterostructures, and atomic-scale studies of emergent quantum phenomena at surfaces and interfaces. |
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Alexander TsirlinLeipzig University, Germany Prof. Alexander Tsirlin leads the Division of Quantum Magnetism and Superconductivity at the Leipzig University, Germany. He received his Ph.D. from Moscow State University in 2009 and worked as the Humboldt postdoctoral fellow in Dresden before taking the independent group-leader positions in Tallinn and Augsburg. Prof. Tsirlin is the recipient of the Sofja Kovalevskaya Award. He uses scattering techniques and ab initio calculations to elucidate the microscopic physics of quantum materials. |
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Zhong WangTsinghua University, China Zhong Wang is a professor of physics at Tsinghua University, China. Dr. Wang obtained his B.S. (2005) and Ph.D. (2011) from the University of Science and Technology of China. He was a visiting scholar at Stanford University from 2009 to2010. He joined Tsinghua University in 2011. He is a condensed matter physicist with broad interdisciplinary interests. His current research interests include quantum many-body physics, non-Hermitian physics, and open quantum systems. |
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Steffen WiedmannRadboud University, The Netherlands Steffen Wiedmann received his diploma in physics from the University of Würzburg, Germany, and his Ph.D. from the National Institute of Applied Sciences of Toulouse, France, in 2010. Currently, he is an associate professor at HFML-FELIX, Radboud University, The Netherlands. Dr. Wiedmann is an experimental condensed matter physicist studying the electronic and thermodynamic properties of quantum materials in high magnetic fields, focusing on topological and correlated matter. He was awarded the University Teaching Award for Best Junior Lecturer at Radboud University (2016) and the Best Senior Lecturer at the Faculty of Science in 2023. |
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Stephen WilsonUniversity of California, Santa Barbara, USA Stephen Wilson received his Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Tennessee in 2007, and he currently serves as a Professor in the Materials Department at UC Santa Barbara. His research group focuses on the development and advanced characterization of novel quantum materials, with a particular focus on quantum magnets, unconventional superconductors, and correlated metals. Stephen is a fellow of the American Physical Society as well as a fellow of the Neutron Scattering Society of America. |
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Kei YamamotoJapan Atomic Energy Agency, Japan Kei completed his Ph.D. at the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge, UK in October 2013, where he studied roles of gauge fields in general relativistic cosmologies. After postdoc work at Kobe University, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, and the University of Alabama, he received JSPS Leading Initiative for Excellent Young Researchers in 2018, He then joined the Advanced Science Research Center, Japan Atomic Energy Agency, where he currently works as an Assistant Principal Researcher. Kei’s research interests are in spintronics, surface waves, classical and quantum field theories, and application of mathematical physics. |
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Peihong ZhangUniversity at Buffalo, USA Peihong Zhang is a professor of physics at the University at Buffalo, State University of New York. He received his Ph.D. from the Pennsylvania State University in 2001 and completed his postdoctoral research at the University of California, Berkeley, before joining the University of Buffalo. He is a recipient of the CAREER Award from the U.S. National Science Foundation. His research interests center around understanding and predicting materials properties from first principles and the development of new methodology for accurate and efficient calculations of the quasiparticle properties of complex materials. |
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Fabio BoschiniInstitut National de la Recherche Scientifique, Canada Fabio Boschini is an Assistant Professor at the Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique in Quebec, Canada, and an Affiliate Investigator at the Stewart Blusson Quantum Matter Institute (SBQMI). He completed his Ph.D. at Politecnico di Milano, Italy, in 2015, followed by a postdoctoral research fellowship at the University of British Columbia, SBQMI (2015-2020). He holds a Sloan Research Fellowship in Physics (2025–2027) and a Canada Research Chair in Quantum Materials' Dynamics (2024–2029). Fabio heads the time-resolved photoemission endstation at the Advanced Laser Light Source (ALLS) laboratory, and his research focuses on exploring electron interactions and light-induced phase transitions in quantum materials via advanced momentum-resolved spectroscopic techniques. |
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Yuan CaoUniversity of California, Berkeley, USA Yuan Cao is an Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at University of California, Berkeley. He obtained his bachelor's degree at University of Science and Technology of China in 2014, and master's degree and Ph.D. at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2016 and 2020, respectively. From 2021 to 2024, he served as a Junior Fellow at Harvard University, before joining Berkeley as faculty. His primary research interest is in the electrical properties of low-dimensional materials, and how to engineer these properties and find applications for them using cross-disciplinary approaches including nanotechnology such as microelectricalmechanical systems (MEMS). In 2018, his research on superconductivity in twisted graphene was at the top of 'Nature's 10' list as well as the 'Physics Breakthrough of the Year'. He was subsequently awarded with 'TIME 100 Next for rising stars' in 2019, Sackler Prize in Physics in 2020, McMillan Award in 2021, and Richard L. Greene Dissertation Award in 2022. |
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Ahana ChakrabortyLouisiana State University, USA Ahana Chakraborty is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Louisiana State University, USA. She received her Ph.D. in theoretical physics from the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, India, in 2019. Prior to joining LSU, she was an Abrahams Postdoctoral Associate at Rutgers University, USA, and a postdoctoral researcher at the Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems (MPIPKS), Germany. Her research group, Quantum Dynamics and Information, works on interdisciplinary subjects in theoretical condensed matter physics and quantum information science, with current focuses on entanglement dynamics in monitored quantum circuits, manipulation of quantum materials by light, and dynamics and thermalization of disordered systems. |
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Trithep DevakulStanford University, USA Trithep Devakul is an Assistant Professor of Physics at Stanford University specializing in theoretical condensed matter physics. He earned his Ph.D. in physics from Princeton University in 2021 and completed a postdoctoral appointment at MIT. He was awarded the Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship and the Air Force Young Investigator Award. His current research focuses on emergent quantum phases arising from the interplay of topology and strong correlations in two-dimensional materials. |
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Ankit DisaCornell University, USA Ankit Disa is an Assistant Professor in the School of Applied & Engineering Physics at Cornell University. He earned his Ph.D. in Applied Physics from Yale University in 2016 and conducted postdoctoral research at the Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter. He was an Alexander von Humboldt Postdoctoral Research Fellow (2017), a Fellow of the Max Planck-NY Center for Nonequilibrium Quantum Phenomena (2019), and received the Oxide Electronics Prize for Excellence in Research (2025). His research focuses on controlling electronic and magnetic properties in quantum materials using light from THz to optical frequencies. |
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Jacob GaylesUniversity of South Florida, USA Jacob Gayles started his research as an undergraduate, that focused on electrical transport in DNA molecules and computational studies of semiconductors. He received his Ph.D. in Physics from Texas A&M University in 2016. During his doctoral studies, he moved to the Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz to research computational and theoretical condensed matter physics, for both chiral magnetic systems and spin-orbit torques. During his Post-Doctoral fellowship, he studied topological magnetic systems at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids in Dresden, Germany. While at the Max Planck Institute, he led the Skyrmionics working group. Currently, he is an Assistant Professor of Physics and the leader of the Quantum Chiraltronics Group at the University of South Florida in Tampa, Florida. He is the recipient of the Max Planck Partner Group, The Cottrell Scholar award and the AFOSR Young Investigator Award. |
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Olivier GingrasFlatiron Institute, USA and Institut de Physique Théorique, France Olivier Gingras received a Ph.D. from the Université de Montréal in 2022 and is currently an Associate Research Scientist in a joint position between the Center for Computational Quantum Physics at the Flatiron Institute and the Institut de Physique Théorique in Saclay. His research focuses on the numerical simulation of quantum materials, with particular interests in quantum embedding methods and unconventional superconductivity. A central goal of his work is to bridge state-of-the-art numerical simulations with experiments, enabling quantitative connections between microscopic theoretical models and the properties of real quantum materials. |
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Chunyu Mark GuoMax Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter, Germany Chunyu Mark Guo is a W2 Research Group Leader at the Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter in Hamburg, Germany. He received his Ph.D. in physics from Zhejiang University in 2019 and subsequently conducted postdoctoral research at EPFL. He was awarded an ERC Starting Grant in 2024 for his research proposal Free-Kagome. His research focuses on quantum transport in strongly correlated and topological materials, including kagome metals, unconventional superconductors, and heavy-fermion systems, with particular emphasis on focused-ion-beam-assisted microstructuring of 3D quantum devices at mesoscopic scales. |
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Tobias HolderTel Aviv University, Israel Tobias Holder is an Assistant Professor for Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics at Tel Aviv University. After completion of his Ph.D. in 2015 at the University of Stuttgart, he joined the Weizmann Institute of Science as a Minerva postdoctoral fellow, and later as senior postdoctoral researcher. Tobias focuses on the theoretical investigation of phenomena in quantum transport, as well as nonlocal and ballistic/hydrodynamic electron flow in high-mobility devices. In his research, he aims to make sense of the wealth of information that is becoming available about complex and layered materials, heterostructures and van-der-Waals systems in order to attain a genuine understanding of the underlying mechanisms. |
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Yi-Ping HuangNational Tsing Hua University and Academia Sinica, Taiwan Yi-Ping Huang is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Physics at National Tsing Hua University and holds a joint appointment with the Institute of Physics, Academia Sinica, Taiwan. After receiving his Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Colorado Boulder in 2017, he conducted postdoctoral research at the Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems and the Paul Scherrer Institute, before joining NTHU as a MOST Young Scholar and Yushan Young Scholar. His research focuses on theoretical quantum many-body physics, particularly quantum entanglement, interference, nonergodicity, quantum many-body scars, quantum spin liquids, and connections between quantum matter and quantum information. |
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Lun JinSoutheast University, China Lun Jin received her Ph.D. in Inorganic Chemistry from University of Oxford, UK, in 2019, working on novel solid-state materials containing transition metals in unusual oxidation states and coordination environments. Then she worked as a postdoctoral research associate at Princeton University, USA, before joining the School of Physics, Southeast University, Nanjing, China, as a tenure-track faculty member, in 2024. Her current research interests encompass quantum materials and single-crystal growth, focusing on their structure–property relationships, as well as magnetism-related physical phenomena. Her work lies at the juncture of condensed matter physics, materials science, and solid-state chemistry. |
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Darshan G. JoshiTata Institute of Fundamental Research Hyderabad, India Darshan is a faculty member at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research Hyderabad (TIFRH), India. He completed his undergraduate studies from Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER), Pune, India and obtained his Ph.D. from Technical University of Dresden, Germany. Prior to joining TIFRH, Darshan worked as a postdoctoral researcher at MPI-FKF, Germany and Harvard University. Broadly his research interests are in strongly-correlated electron systems, frustrated magnetism, topological phases of matter, and disordered systems. |
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Kota KatsumiNew York University, USA Kota received his Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Tokyo and conducted postdoctoral research at Université de Paris and Johns Hopkins University, supported by JSPS overseas fellowships. He is currently an Assistant Professor of Physics at New York University, affiliated with the Center for Quantum Phenomena. He was awarded the NSF CAREER Award in 2025. His research focuses on ultrafast optical studies of quantum materials, exploring terahertz-driven nonlinear phenomena, collective excitations such as amplitude Higgs modes, and light-induced non-equilibrium states in strongly correlated materials, including superconductors and excitonic insulators. |
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Kohei KawabataUniversity of Tokyo, Japan Kohei Kawabata is an associate professor at the Institute for Solid State Physics in the University of Tokyo. He received his PhD in physics from the University of Tokyo in 2022. After he was a Gordon and Betty Moore postdoctoral research associate at Princeton University, he joined the faculty at the University of Tokyo in 2023. His research explores various theoretical aspects of condensed matter physics, particularly fundamental and universal characterization of phases and orders far from equilibrium. |
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Elio KönigUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison, USA Elio König is an Assistant Professor for Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Elio obtained his PhD in 2014 from Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, and subsequently held postdoctoral positions at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Rutgers, followed by a group leader position at the Department for Quantum Many-Body Theory at the Max-Planck-Institute for Solid State Research. Elio's research is inspired by the ongoing 2nd quantum revolution and spans a broad area of topics ranging from strongly correlated electrons, 2D quantum materials, topology, mesoscopic transport, to quantum information science and quantum emulation, specifically as applied to fermionic problems. |
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Étienne Lantagne-HurtubiseInstitut Quantique at Université de Sherbrooke, Canada Étienne Lantagne-Hurtubise is an assistant professor in the physics department and Institut Quantique at Université de Sherbrooke in Québec, Canada. He obtained his Ph.D. in 2021 from the University of British Columbia, then moved to Caltech as a Moore postdoctoral fellow in quantum materials theory until the end of 2024. Étienne's research interests mainly revolve around the exotic phases of quantum matter found in two-dimensional materials and devices. Recent focus has been placed on understanding the interplay of broken symmetries, collective modes and unconventional superconductivity in graphene multilayers, as well as fleshing out their experimental signatures in various platforms. |
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Dominique LarocheUniversity of Florida, USA Dominique Laroche has been an assistant-professor at the University of Florida since 2019, and is the associate director of the High B/T facility of the National Maglab. He specializes in the fabrication and measurements of low-dimensional quantum devices coupled at the nanoscale. His current research interests include the study of interacting Luttinger liquids through Coulomb drag measurements, of exciton condensation in Si/SiGe bilayers and of hybrid superconducting-semiconducting devices. Prof. Laroche graduated with a Ph. D. in Physics from McGill University in 2014, and completed post-doctoral appointments at Sandia National Laboratories and TU Delft prior to his appointment at the University of Florida. |
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Cyprian LewandowskiFlorida State University, USA Cyprian Lewandowski is an Assistant Professor of Physics at Florida State University and the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory. He earned his Ph.D. in Physics from MIT in 2020 and was subsequently a Gordon and Betty Moore Postdoctoral Fellow at Caltech. He is a recipient of an NSF CAREER Award in 2026. His research explores how interactions, topology, and quantum geometry can give rise to collective electronic phenomena in quantum materials. His current interests include two-dimensional and moiré materials, unconventional superconductivity, correlated and topological phases, and light-matter interactions, with an emphasis on building close connections between theoretical predictions and experiments. |
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Zhengguang LuFlorida State University, USA Zhengguang Lu is Assistant Professor of Physics at Florida State University. He received his Ph.D. in physics from Florida State University in 2020 and subsequently conducted postdoctoral research at MIT. His research focuses on strongly correlated and topological phenomena in two-dimensional quantum materials, particularly rhombohedral graphene and moiré systems, including fractionalized topological states and unconventional superconductivity. His work has been recognized by the 2025 William L. McMillan Award for outstanding contributions in condensed matter physics. |
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| Hoi Chun (Adrian) PoHong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong Dr. Hoi Chun (Adrian) Po is a condensed matter theorist focusing on the interplay between symmetries and topology in quantum materials. He obtained his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 2018 and worked at MIT as a Pappalardo Postdoctoral Fellow afterward. He returned to Hong Kong and joined the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) as an Assistant Professor in 2021. |
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Aline RamiresTU Wien, Austria Aline Ramires is an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Solid State Physics at TU Wien, Austria. She obtained her Ph.D. from Rutgers University, USA, in 2015. Between 2020 and 2025, she was a junior group leader at the Paul Scherrer Institute, Switzerland, supported by an Ambizione Grant from the Swiss National Science Foundation. Her independent research has been recognized by the Early Career Award from the University of British Columbia (2021) and the Nevill F. Mott Prize (2022). Her research focuses on addressing the phenomenology of complex quantum materials, with a particular emphasis on unconventional superconductivity. |
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Yuval RonenWeizmann Institute of Science, Israel Yuval Ronen is a condensed matter experimentalist at the Weizmann Institute of Science. His research explores emergent quantum phenomena in low-dimensional systems, with a focus on topological superconductivity and strongly correlated electrons, where exotic quasiparticles such as anyons can arise. He received his Ph.D. from the Weizmann Institute in 2017, working with Moty Heiblum on mesoscopic electron transport. He then pursued postdoctoral research in Philip Kim’s group at Harvard University, studying novel two-dimensional materials and van der Waals heterostructures. Since 2022, he has been a Senior Scientist (Assistant Professor) at Weizmann, where his group develops advanced device platforms and low-temperature techniques to investigate strongly interacting quantum states. |
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Li-kun ShiZhejiang University, China Li-kun Shi is a tenure-track professor at the Center for Quantum Matter, School of Physics, Zhejiang University. He earned his Ph.D. from the Institute of Semiconductors, Chinese Academy of Sciences, in 2014. Before joining Zhejiang University in 2025, he conducted postdoctoral research at A*STAR and Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, and at the Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems and Leipzig University in Germany. His theoretical research focuses on measurable phenomena in open nonequilibrium quantum systems, particularly quantum geometry, nonlinear transport, and emergent Fermi surfaces in driven-dissipative systems. |
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Tiancheng SongUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison, USA Tiancheng Song has been an Assistant Professor of Physics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison since May 2024. He received his Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Washington with Prof. Xiaodong Xu in 2021, and then he was a Dicke Fellow at Princeton University working with Prof. Sanfeng Wu from 2021 to 2024. His research focuses on studying 2D magnetism, 2D superconductivity, and topology by using various techniques, such as nanodevice fabrication, magneto-optics, quantum transport, thermoelectrics, optoelectronics, optical spectroscopy and microscopy. He received the DOE Early Career Research Program Award, Lee Osheroff Richardson Science Prize, and Guo Moruo Presidential Scholarship. |
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Zhi-Da SongPeking University, China Zhi-Da Song received his Ph.D. in theoretical physics from the Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2018. He subsequently conducted postdoctoral research at Princeton University before joining Peking University as an Assistant Professor in late 2021. His research focuses on the classification of topological phases, correlation effects in topological materials, theoretical studies of strong correlation, superconductivity, and topology in moiré systems, electronic transport theory, as well as unconventional magnetism and spin-space group symmetries. |
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Pavel A. VolkovUniversity of Connecticut, USA Pavel A. Volkov has been an Assistant Professor at the University of Connecticut since Fall 2023. Pavel obtained his Ph.D. in 2018 at Ruhr-Universität Bochum, followed by postdoctoral positions at Rutgers University (as Abrahams Postdoctoral Fellow) and Harvard University. His independent research has been recognized by Martin and Beate Block Award from the Aspen Center for Physics (2022) and Nevill F. Mott Prize (2025). Pavel’s research is in the theory of strongly correlated quantum materials spanning 2D and moiré systems, unconventional superconductivity, polar metals and insulators, and materials driven out of equilibrium. |
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Shenglong XuTexas A&M University, USA Shenglong Xu is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Physics & Astronomy at Texas A&M University. He received his Ph.D. in Physics from the University of California, San Diego in 2017, and then became a postdoctoral researcher at the Condensed Matter Theory Center at the University of Maryland. He joined the faculty at Texas A&M in 2020. His research focuses on condensed matter theory and quantum physics, with a current emphasis on understanding the behavior of quantum many-body systems far from equilibrium, including entanglement growth and information spreading. |
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