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Brent Grocholski received his B.S. in physics from the University of Minnesota and his Ph. D. from the University of California, Berkeley where he studied high pressure systems. He was a postdoctoral research associate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology before becoming a Peter Buck Fellow at the National Museum of Natural History. Before becoming the Chief Editor of PRX in December 2024, he spent ten years as an editor at Science focused on applied physics, materials science, and geophysics. (grocholski@aps.org)
ENS de Lyon, France
Denis Bartolo is a Professor of Physics at ENS de Lyon, France. He likes combining experiments and theory to investigate a variety of collective phenomena in soft condensed matter. Current topics include active-matter hydrodynamics, topological aspects of mechanics and crowd dynamics. After studying experimental physics and chemistry, he completed his Ph.D. in theoretical physics at ESPCI-Paris and Sorbonne University. He joined Université Paris Cité as an assistant professor in 2006, and became a full professor at ENS de Lyon in 2012. In 2021, he was elected a fellow of the American Physical Society and his research on active matter physics received the support of the European Research Council.
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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 10 years before joining PRB in 2017. He is now a part-time member of the PRX editorial team. |
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Victor Vakaryuk, Senior Associate EditorAmerican Physical Society, USA Victor Vakaryuk 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 and is now a long-term, part-time member of the PRX editorial team. |
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Yiming Xu, Senior Associate EditorAmerican Physical Society, USA Yiming Xu received his B.Sc. from Nanjing University in China and his Ph.D. from Boston College, both in experimental condensed matter physics. Prior to joining PRX in 2014, he was a postdoctoral fellow in the Materials Sciences Division at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. His research focus was on the electronic properties of strongly correlated materials. He was the interim Chief Editor from July to December, 2024. |
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Yun Li, Associate EditorAmerican Physical Society, USA Yun Li received her Ph.D. from a joint program between Pierre and Marie Curie University in Paris and East China Normal University in China, performing theoretical research in the field of ultracold quantum gases. She worked as a DECREA Fellow at Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne, Australia, after two postdoctoral stints at the University of Trento in Italy and at the National University of Singapore. Before joining PRX in 2021, she was a senior editor of Nature Physics. |
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Mauro Schiulaz, Associate EditorAmerican Physical Society, USA Mauro Schiulaz received his Ph.D. from the International School for Advanced Studies (ISAS) in Trieste, Italy. He most recently worked as a postdoctoral research associate at Yeshiva University where he performed research in quantum chaotic systems, many-body localization, and open quantum systems. His previous postdoctoral work was at Boston University where he performed research in classical disordered systems, detonations in inhomogeneous systems, and disordered superconductors. He became a full-time member of the PRX editorial team September, 2019. |
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Elena Sesé Sansa, Associate EditorAmerican Physical Society, USA Elena Sesé Sansa received her Ph.D. in physics from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL). Her thesis was distinguished with the Physics doctoral thesis award. She was a visiting researcher at the Technical University of Berlin and the University of Barcelona. Her expertise is in nonequilibrium statistical mechanics and soft matter physics. She joined Physical Review E as an Associate Editor in 2023, and is now also a long-term, part-time member of the PRX editorial team. |
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Raphael Voituriez, Associate EditorCNRS-UPMC, France Raphael is a CNRS senior scientist at Sorbonne University (Paris, France) and Professor of physics at Ecole Polytechnique (Palaiseau, France) . He obtained his Ph.D. in theoretical physics in 2002 from Université Paris XI - Orsay. After a postdoctoral appointment at Institut Curie (Paris), he joined the condensed matter theory and biophysics departments at Sorbonne University. His research covers different topics ranging from statistical physics and stochastic processes to biology inspired physics, from single molecule to cell and tissue scales. Raphael is also an Associate Editor of PRL. |
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Xi Wang, Associate EditorWashington University in St. Louis, USA Xi Wang is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Physics at Washington University in St. Louis. She received her B.S. in Physics from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) and her Ph.D. in Physics from Florida State University. She joined Washington University after completing postdoctoral research at the University of Washington. Her research focuses on van der Waals materials and low-dimensional quantum systems. She develops optical spectroscopy and device-based approaches to probe and control spin, excitonic, and correlated states in these systems. |
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Marcus Huber, Consulting EditorIQOQI, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austria Marcus Huber is a group leader at the Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information (IQOQI) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna. He completed his Ph.D. at the University of Vienna in 2010 and has since worked at the University of Bristol, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, the Institute of Photonic Sciences (ICFO) and the University of Geneva. His research focus is currently connected to high-dimensional quantum information and the exploration of thermodynamics of quantum systems. His interdisciplinary group covers mathematical, foundational as well as applied-theoretical and sometimes even experimental research. |
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Iacopo Carusotto, Quantum fluids and topological photonicsIstituto Nazionale di Ottica, CNR-INO, Trento, Italy Iacopo Carusotto is a Research Director of INO-CNR at the BEC Center in Trento, a joint initiative of INO-CNR and Trento University. His group performs interdisciplinary research in different areas of quantum-optics-related research including nonlinear, quantum and topological photonics, quantum fluids of ultracold atoms and of light, analog models of gravity and analog black holes based on condensed matter and optical systems. |
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James Cryan, Ultrafast physicsStanford University, USA James Cryan is a Senior Staff Scientist at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, a principal investigator for the Stanford PULSE Institute, and the Atomic Molecular and Optical Sciences Department Head at the Linac Coherent Light Source at SLAC. He received his Ph.D. In 2012 from Stanford University. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society (2020). His primary research interest is in the area of ultrafast electron dynamics in small quantum systems. |
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Mark Dean, Experimental condensed matter physicsBrookhaven National Laboratory, USA Mark Dean is a Physicist in the Condensed Matter Physics and Materials Science Department at Brookhaven National Laboratory. His research program is centered on resonant elastic and inelastic x-ray scattering studies of high temperature superconductors, strongly spin-orbit coupled materials, and complex oxide heterostructures. In 2014 he was a recipient of the Department of Energy Early Career Award. |
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Thomas Devereaux, Condensed matter physicsStanford University and SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, USA Thomas Devereaux is a professor in Materials Science & Engineering and Photon Science at Stanford University and SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, and a Senior Fellow of the Precourt Institute for Energy. He received his Ph.D. in 1991 from the University of Oregon. He was formerly the Director of the Stanford Institute for Materials and Energy Sciences (SIMES) from 2011-2020. He is a Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (2002), the American Physical Society (2008) and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (2024). His main research interests lie in the areas of theoretical condensed matter physics and computational materials science. |
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Sebastian Diehl, Quantum many-body systems, open quantum systemsUniversity of Cologne, Germany Sebastian Diehl is a professor at the Institute for Theoretical Physics at the University of Cologne, Germany. His research focuses on driven open quantum matter—systems at the interface of condensed matter, quantum optics, and quantum information, characterized by an interplay of coherent quantum dynamics with external driving, dissipation, and quantum measurement. He was a recipient of a START grant from the Austrian Science Fund in 2011 and a Consolidator Grant from the European Research Council in 2015. |
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Andreas Döpp, Laser and plasma physics, accelerator physics, machine learningLudwig Maximilian University (LMU) Munich, Germany Andreas Döpp is a Lecturer in the Department of Physics at LMU Munich, Germany. He works at the interface of laser, plasma and accelerator physics, enriched with advanced data-driven methodologies. He received dual doctorates from École Polytechnique, France, and Universidad de Salamanca, Spain, in 2015, focusing on advancements in laser-plasma light sources. Since 2016, Dr. Döpp has been a Guest Researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics and became a Visiting Researcher at the University of Oxford’s physics faculty in 2023. Due to his interdisciplinary work bridging physics and machine learning, he also serves as a Senior Affiliated Researcher with the Munich Center for Machine Learning. Andreas was awarded an Emmy Noether Fellowship by the German Research Foundation (DFG). |
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Roel Dullens, Experimental soft matter physicsRadboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands Roel Dullens is Professor of Physical Chemistry of Soft Matter at Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands. In his research he combines the development of novel colloidal systems with optical manipulation and imaging techniques to study, for example, colloidal grain boundaries, liquid crystals, and driven systems. Before moving to Nijmegen, he was a professor at the University of Oxford, UK, and he received his Ph.D. from Utrecht University, Netherlands. His research has been supported by the European Research Council via a Starting Grant in 2011 and a Consolidator Grant in 2016. In 2019, he was awarded the Corday-Morgan Prize and the McBain Medal for his contributions to (soft) condensed matter science. |
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Chen Fang, Condensed matter physicsInstitute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Chen Fang is a condensed-matter theorist at Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He works on the topological classification of bands under various symmetries, open systems described by non-Hermitian Hamiltonians, and quantum dynamics far from equilibrium. His recent projects include new topological phenomena in non-Hermtian Hamiltonians, emerging symmetries in quantum many-body-scar models, and the symmetry classification of all commensurate magnetic orders. Chen Fang received his Ph.D. from Purdue University in 2011, and was a postdoctoral research associate at Princeton University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 2012 to 2015. |
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Paul Fendley, Statistical mechanics and mathematical physicsUniversity of Oxford, United Kingdom Paul Fendley is a Senior Research Fellow at All Souls College and Professor at the Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics, both part of the University of Oxford. He develops and applies methods for understanding many-body systems with strong interactions, among them integrability, supersymmetry, topological invariance, and conformal field theory. This research often utilises and intersects with recent mathematical advances. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and of the Institute of Physics. He has received an Outstanding Junior Investigator Award from the U.S. Department of Energy, a Sloan Foundation Fellowship, and a Research Innovation Award from the Research Corporation. |
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Donglai Feng, Experimental condensed matter physicsUniversity of Science and Technology of China, China Donglai Feng is a professor of physics at the University of Science and Technology of China. His research focuses on the electronic structure of highly correlated electron systems and their artificial microstructures, including high-temperature superconductors, Mott insulators, magnetic materials, low-dimensional systems, topological materials, etc. His experimental expertise includes angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy, x-ray spectroscopy and scattering, scanning tunneling microscopy, molecular beam epitaxy. He is an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and a Fellow of the American Physical Society. |
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Francesca Ferlaino, Quantum gases, atomic physics, quantum few- and many-body physicsUniversity of Innsbruck, Austria Francesca Ferlaino is an experimental AMO physicist. She received her Ph.D. at the University of Florence in 2004, and she is currently professor at the University of Innsbruck, Research Director at the Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information (IQOQI, ÖAW), and in the Board of Directors of the Cluster of Excellence “Quantum Science Austria”. Her research explores few- and many-body quantum physics using ultracold atoms and molecules, interacting via long-range forces. Recently, she focused on creating quantum gases with multielectron atoms possessing large magnetic dipole moments to access novel dipolar phenomena. Dr. Ferlaino’s awards include the Grand Prix de Physique "Cécile-DeWitt Morette” from the French Academy of Science, the Erwin Schrödinger Prize, the Junior BEC Award, and three ERC grants. |
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Erwin Frey, Statistical physics, soft matter physics, biophysicsUniversity Ludwig-Maximilians Munich, Germany Erwin Frey is Professor of statistical and biological physics at University Ludwig-Maximilians Munich, Germany. His group works at the interface of physics, nanoscience, and biology, focusing on theoretical approaches to understand emergent phenomena in complex biomolecular systems, e.g., the cytoskeleton, intercellular transport processes, self-assembly processes, and pattern formation. He received several honors and awards, including the Max Planck Medal in 2024, being named Kavli Chair at the Delft University of Technology and participating in the Colloquium Ehrenfestii at Leiden University, both in 2019. |
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Jiaqing He, Experimental condensed matter physicsSouthern University of Science and Technology, China Jiaqing He is currently a Chair professor in the Department of Physics at Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech). He received his joint Ph.D. in Physics from both the Jülich Research Center and Wuhan University in 2004. He was a postdoctoral researcher at Brookhaven National Laboratory, a research assistant professor at Northwestern University in the USA, and a professor at Xi’an Jiaotong University and SUSTech in China. His research focuses on experimental condensed matter physics, particularly in areas such as transmission electron microscopy, thermoelectric materials and device physics, and structure and property relationships. He is also a Fellow of the American Physical Society. |
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Alex High, Spin qubits in solid state systems, nanophotonicsUniversity of Chicago, USA Alex High is Professor of Molecular Engineering at the University of Chicago. His primary research focus is quantum engineering in diamond. He seeks to enable the next generation of quantum and electronic technologies by exploring heterogenous quantum material platforms for sophisticated functionalities, device integration, packaging, and improved qubit performance. Additionally, he studies quantum optics in solid state materials for new functionalities, such as nanoscale imaging, detection, and control of light. He has extensive experience in 2D materials, integrated photonics, metamaterials, and excitonic phenomena. |
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Benjamin Huard, Experimental quantum information, quantum technologies based on superconducting devicesEcole Normale Supérieure, France Benjamin Huard is a Professor of Physics at Ecole Normale Supérieure in Lyon, France. He conducts experimental and theoretical work on quantum information and superconducting circuits. He has worked on quantum measurement and feedback, quantum sensing, thermodynamics of quantum information, microwave quantum optics, and quantum error correction. He did his Ph.D. studies on mesoscopic physics at CEA Saclay (France) with Hugues Pothier and a postdoc on graphene in the Goldhaber-Gordon group at Stanford University (USA). He joined CNRS in 2008 to work at Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris and became a full professor at ENS de Lyon in 2016. He has been a scientific advisor of the company Alice & Bob since 2021. |
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Sohrab Ismail-Beigi, Condensed matter physicsYale University, USA Sohrab Ismail-Beigi is a Professor of Applied Physics at Yale University. He is a computational condensed matter/materials physicist studying a variety of systems using mainly first-principles electronic structure theory. Recent areas of his interest include low-dimensional materials, electronic states at surfaces and interfaces, correlated phases of metal oxides, and the development of many-body methods for strongly interacting electrons. He obtained his Ph.D. in Physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 2000, joined the Yale Applied Physics Department in 2003, and became a full professor in 2015. He was elected a fellow of the American Physical Society in 2019 and won a 2023 Outstanding Referee of the Physical Review journals award. |
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Gijsje Koenderink, Biological physicsDelft University of Technology, The Netherlands Gijsje Koenderink is Professor of Cellular Biophysics at Delft University of Technology, Medical Delta professor at the Erasmus Medical School, and co-director of the Kavli Institute for Nanoscience Delft, Netherlands. Her research focuses on the fundamental physical principles that underlie cell and tissue mechanics and on the implications of mechanical abnormalities for disease (cancer, fibrosis, osteoarthritis and thrombosis). Her team combines concepts and experimental methods from soft matter physics, biophysics, synthetic biology, and cell biology. She received various distinctions, including an NWO VIDI (2008), NWO VICI (2019), ERC Starting Grant (2013), the P-G. de Gennes Prize (2018), and the Dresden Physics Prize (2020). She was elected a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences (KNAW) in 2024. |
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Benjamin Lev, Quantum optics, quantum gases, quantum many-body physicsStanford University, USA Benjamin Lev is a Professor in the Departments of Physics and Applied Physics at Stanford University. He explores quantum many-body physics using techniques at the interface of quantum gas physics, quantum optics, and condensed matter physics. Recent focus has been on excited 1D dipolar gases; confocal cavity QED for creating dynamical lattices, spin glasses, and neural networks; and scanning probe microcopy with quantum gas sensors. Lev received his A.B. from Princeton in 1999 and his Ph.D. from Caltech in 2005. His awards include a David and Lucile Packard Foundation Fellowship, an NSF CAREER Award, the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, and young investigator awards from the Air Force, Navy, and DARPA. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society. |
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Kin Fai Mak, Experimental condensed matter physicsCornell University, USA Kin Fai Mak received his B.Sc. in physics and mathematics from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and Ph.D. in physics from Columbia University. Before joining Penn State University as an assistant professor in physics, he was a Kavli postdoctoral fellow at Cornell University. He moved back to Cornell in 2018 and is now a Josephson Family Professor in the College of Arts and Sciences. He is also a scientific member and director at the Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter. His current research interests include magnetism, superconductivity, strong correlation physics and exciton physics in 2D materials and their heterostructures. |
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Xavier Marie, Condensed matter physics, semiconductor optoelectronicsUniversity of Toulouse, France Xavier Marie is Professor of Physics at the National Institute of Applied Sciences (INSA) at the University of Toulouse and also Director of the Laboratory of Excellence NEXT (Nano, EXtreme measurements and Theory). He has been a Senior Member at the Institut Universitaire de France since 2015. His research focuses on electronic and optical properties of low-dimensional semiconductor structures (quantum wells, quantum dots, 2D materials). His current research topics include the optical, electronic, and spin coherence in semiconductor nanostructures and band structure engineering of semiconductors for optical telecommunication devices and solar cells. |
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Joel E. Moore, Condensed matter theory, quantum many-body theory and quantum physicsUniversity of California, Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA Joel Moore is Chern-Simons Professor of Physics at UC Berkeley and a Faculty Senior Scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. He received his Ph.D. from MIT in 2001 under the supervision of Xiao-Gang Wen. His work is in the general area of quantum many-body theory with applications to condensed matter, atomic ensembles, and quantum information. His contributions include results on topological phases and their electromagnetic responses, the role of quantum entanglement in understanding quantum matter, and the nature of coherent quantum dynamics. He is an NAS Member, an APS Fellow, and a Simons Investigator. |
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Johnpierre Paglione, Experimental condensed matter physicsUniversity of Maryland, USA Johnpierre Paglione is a Professor of Physics and Director of the Center for Nanophysics and Advanced Materials at the University of Maryland. His team has contributed to several fields of experimental condensed matter research through both single-crystal synthesis of superconducting, quantum-critical and topological materials, as well as exploration of novel phenomena. He is a leader in the field of quantum criticality and has made important contributions to the understanding of heavy-fermion materials and the quasiparticle picture of correlated materials. Recently, he has pursued several new areas of research including iron-based high-temperature superconductivity and topological insulators and superconductors. He is the recipient of a National Postdoctoral Fellowship Award from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Council of Canada, a National Science Foundation CAREER Award and an Early Career Award from the Department of Energy, a Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation Materials Synthesis Award, and is a Fellow of the American Physical Society. |
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Raquel Queiroz, Theoretical condensed matter physicsColumbia University, USA Raquel Queiroz is an Assistant Professor of Physics at Columbia University and a Visiting Scholar at the Center for Computation Quantum Physics, Flatiron Institute in New York City. She received her Ph.D. from the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Physics in Stuttgart, Germany, in 2015 and was a postdoctoral Koshland fellow at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel from 2016 until 2021. In 2022, she established her group at Columbia University, where she studies topological and geometric properties of solids, primarily how quantum geometry affects electronic response, collective phenomena and behavior in the presence of disorder. Her work is deeply motivated by collaborations with experimental groups. She received the NSF Career Award in 2024. |
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Cindy Regal, Experimental atomic, optical, and mesoscopic physicsJILA, USA Cindy Regal is a Fellow of JILA, a joint institute between the University of Colorado and NIST, and an Associate Professor of Physics at the University of Colorado. Her experimental work in quantum physics lies at the interface of atomic physics, optical sciences, and solid-state devices. She was a recipient of a David and Lucile Packard Foundation Fellowship and is a Fellow of the American Physical Society. |
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Federico Ricci Tersenghi, Statistical and computational physics, machine learningSapienza University of Rome, Italy Federico Ricci-Tersenghi is a Professor of Theoretical Physics at Sapienza University of Rome, Italy. He received his Ph.D. in Physics in 1999 under the supervision of Nobel Laureate Giorgio Parisi and was awarded the Tomassoni-Chisesi Prize in 2008. His research focuses on studying strongly disordered models, especially spin glasses, and applying statistical physics to combinatorial optimization, inference problems, and machine learning in general. His expertise ranges from large-scale numerical simulations to advanced analytical tools, from optimized Monte Carlo and message-passing algorithms to sophisticated mean-field theories and replica/cavity methods. |
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Achim Rosch, Condensed matter theoryUniversity of Cologne, Germany Achim Rosch is professor of theoretical physics at the University of Cologne in Germany. He received his Ph.D. from University of Karlsruhe in 1997. He works on transport and dynamics of correlated and topological matter, including the physics of magnetic skyrmions, systems far from thermal equilibrium, topological insulators and semimetals, Kitaev materials, low-dimensional systems, quantum phase transitions, ultracold atoms, often in collaboration with experimental groups. He received the Leibniz Prize of the German Research Foundation in 2013 and the EPS Europhysics Prize of the European Physical Society in 2016 for his work on magnetic skyrmions. |
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Olga Smirnova, Ultrafast atomic, molecular, and materials scienceMax Born Institute and Technical University of Berlin, Germany Olga Smirnova graduated from the Physics Department of the Moscow State University in 1996 and received her Ph.D. there in 2000, continuing as assistant professor. In 2003 she received the Lise-Meitner Fellowship of Austrian Science Foundation (FWF) and joined the Vienna University of Technology as a postdoctoral fellow. In 2005 she moved to the National Research Council (NRC) in Ottawa, Canada, where she became a permanent staff scientist in 2006. In 2009 she received the SAW award of the Leibniz society and moved to the Max Born Institute to establish her own Strong Field Theory research group, which she continues to lead. Since 2016 she also holds full professorship at the Technical University Berlin. Olga received the Karl-Scheel-Preis of Physikalischen Gesellschaft zu Berlin in 2010 and the Ahmed Zewail Award in Ultrafast Science & Technology of the American Chemical Society in 2020 for her “pioneering contributions in attosecond strong-field physics, including attosecond high harmonic spectroscopy of electron dynamics and the discovery of electron spin polarization during optical tunneling.” Olga’s current research focuses on imaging and control of ultrafast electron dynamics in atoms, solid state materials, and molecules, especially chiral molecules. |
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Barbara Terhal, Quantum information theoryDelft University of Technology and QuTech, The Netherlands Barbara Terhal is a professor in theoretical physics working at Delft University of Technology and QuTech in the Netherlands. She is a fellow of the American Physical Society, a distinguished visiting research chair at Perimeter Institute, and a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. Her research interests are in quantum error correction, in particular for superconducting qubits, and in understanding the computational and conceptual novelty of quantum information. |
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Mikhail Tikhonov, Theoretical physics, Ecology, and EvolutionWashington University in St. Louis, USA Mikhail Tikhonov is a theoretical physicist and an Assistant Professor at Washington University in St Louis. His group applies ideas and methods from statistical physics to study eco-evolutionary feedbacks in high-diversity microbial ecosystems, and evolution in changing or fluctuating environments. He received his Master's degree from Ecole Normale Superieure in 2009 and his Ph.D. from Princeton in 2014. Other interests include information theory and bioinformatics. |
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Liuyan Zhao, Experimental condensed matter physicsUniversity of Michigan, USA Liuyan Zhao is an associate professor of physics at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Her research focuses on probing, controlling, and creating electronic and magnetic phases in solid state systems, including three-dimensional and two-dimensional materials. Her experimental expertise includes nonlinear, ultrafast, and inelastic optical spectroscopy and microscopy, and scanning tunneling microscopy. Her work has been recognized by several awards including NSF CAREER, AFOSR YIP, and Sloan Fellowship. |